Stories from Scandinavia, Poland and the Baltics
The Johan Sverdrup oil field in Norway, run by Norway’s state-owned energy company Equinor, is under fire. Despite being profiled as a “climate-friendly” offshore oil field with little CO2 emissions, the site apparently releases too much of even more damaging […]
10,000 Polish soldiers are to be deployed on their home turf in an attempt to prevent critical infrastructure to be hit by sabotage. The government decision comes after Prime Minister Tusk indirectly accused Russia for the latest sabotage: the blow […]
In the biggest train deal of the country ever, Polish state railways PKP has committed itself to buy 42 double-deck trains from French manufacturer Alstom, who has production facilityies in Chorzów and Nadarzyn, Poland. As PKP Intercity trains, the 42 […]
Despite troublesome relations and EU sanctions against Belarus, for its support of Russia in the war against Ukraine, about 1,000 Belarusians crossed into the EU via Lithuania every day. This was before Lithuania closed its remaining two border crossings with […]
The world’s largest publicly owned investment fund, the Norwegian Oil Fund (Oljefondet), is putting new ethic policies on hold. The Norwegian parliament agreed with a proposition of the country’s government to freeze more ethic investments. The course change comes about […]
There are about 17,500 active core criminal gangsters in Sweden, new data of the Swedish police shows. That is a 25% increase compared to last year. Another 50,000 people in Sweden are aligned with those gang members, meaning they are […]
Groups of tech teachers in Estonia have been given a crash course in how to fly and assemble drones, something that they are expected to teach to their students. While drones rule the battlefield in Ukraine, drone flying is becoming […]
It took pressure from US president Trump and in the end the member countries of NATO decided to raise their military spending with the goal of 5% of each country’s individual national income (Gross Domestic Product (GDP)). But now the […]
Dozens of weather balloons used by smugglers to get cigarettes from Belarus into Lithuania halted air traffic at Vilnius Airport on Tuesday 21 to Wednesday 22 October, for several hours. About 30 flights and 4,000 passengers were effected by delays. […]
Iceland’s legacy airline Icelandair ends flying its two Boeing 767-300ERs at the end of 2026, its CEO Bogi Nils Bogason announced in the presentation of the quarterly results of 2025Q3. Despite making a profit, it was lower than the third […]
In a new series of shootings in Sweden since Friday and before the changing of the clock to winter time, two teenagers were killed, and two men wounded. One late teenager was shot and killed in the Brynäs area in […]
The police law enforcement forces have arrested another eight suspects of planned sabotage actions in several places in the country. Authorities do not exclude the possibility of more arrests, according to a statement released on 21 October 2025. Polish Prime […]
