Europe

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The lowest levels of satisfaction are found in Belgium (71%) and Canada (77%). Two countries located in the northern region of Europe -- Ireland and Denmark -- top the list with 94% satisfaction.

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The Greenlanders are going to vote about them ruling their country themselves. This does'nt mean that Greenland won't still be Danish because it will but will be voting for it November 25. If Greenland says yes, they can rule their country by themselves without asking the Danes from June 21, 2009.

The Danish Prime-minister says that they support Greenland in whatever they want to do and in whatever they vote. Denmark will still have control over Greenland but not full control if they say yes.

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Here tonight - february the 17th 2008 - did Europe got a new country. Yes it is true. The province in Serbia, Kosovo, is now a country of it's own.

The albanian people in the province was tired of Serbia, and there has been a smaller conflict. The Serbians is not happy about it. They wonder if the albanians in the new country can handle it.

It has a population of just over two million people, predominantly ethnic Albanians, with smaller populations of Turks, Serbs, Romani people, Goranis, Bosniaks and other ethnic communities. Priština is the capital and...

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I was looking through my books, and I found this funny little one. It's actually nice.

It's called: "What are these words in Danish?"

So here goes.

English - Scots - Danish

child - bairn - barn
birch tree - birk - birketræ
good - braw - godt/bra
drink - dram - drik
from - frae - fra

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