Norway: not what it’s cracked up to be?
British journalist Michael Booth has stirred emotions in the Nordic countries this week with an article in the Guardian based on his recent book “The Almost Nearly Perfect People”. In it he aims to debunk many of what he calls myths about the Nordic “miracle” which people in the UK have come to believe and admire. So how much of what he writes rings true? Deutsche Welle’s Inside Europe decided to find out more – first by talking to Michael Booth and then hearing from me and London-based Danish journalist Ellen Otzen: