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Swedish Government Wants To Shoot Wolves That Do Not Exist

26 May 202226 May 2022 by Marcel Burger

The Swedish government wants to shoot wolves, saying there are too many of them. But the plans to have a licensed wolf hunt are based on numbers that the statistics of the country’s own ministry for rural affairs do not […]

#Finland#Nordics#Top Stories

Finland To Join NATO, Russia Kills Electricity Supply

13 May 202213 May 2022 by Marcel Burger

Russia kills its supply of electricity to Finland from 1AM on Saturday 14 May 2022. It’s Moscow’s punishment for Finland’s president and government announcement the Scandinavian country wants to join the NATO military alliance. Featured photo: A Finnish F-18C Hornet […]

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US Military Radar Station Waste Pollutes Iceland, Decades After Withdrawal

19 April 202219 April 2022 by Marcel Burger

The United States operated a radar station on Heiðarfjall mountain for 16 years only, but decades after the military withdrawal from the site, the toxic waste the Americans burried underground is poisining the environment. Featured photo: Heiðarfjall mountain on Iceland […]

#Nordics#Norway#Top Stories

Norway Back to Wind Power on Land, But It May Be Bad for the Climate

11 April 202210 April 2022 by Marcel Burger

Norway restarts building wind power on land, with the Labour government pressing the green button three years after the nation’s parliament said stop. But, critics say onshore wind turbines could actually damage the climate. Featured photo: Wind farm on the […]

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#Nordics#Sweden#Top Stories

Swedish Government Wants To Shoot Wolves That Do Not Exist

26 May 202226 May 2022 0

The Swedish government wants to shoot wolves, saying there are too many of them. But the plans to have a licensed wolf hunt are based on numbers that the statistics of the country’s own ministry for rural affairs do not […]

A Finnish F-18C landing (Photo by Rob Schleiffert (CC))
#Finland#Nordics#Top Stories

Finland To Join NATO, Russia Kills Electricity Supply

13 May 202213 May 2022 0

Russia kills its supply of electricity to Finland from 1AM on Saturday 14 May 2022. It’s Moscow’s punishment for Finland’s president and government announcement the Scandinavian country wants to join the NATO military alliance. Featured photo: A Finnish F-18C Hornet […]

The PGNiG natural gas and oil facility of Lubiatów, near Poznań, opened in 2012 (Photo by PGNiG)
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Poland Not Impressed By Russia Cutting Off Natural Gas

27 April 202226 May 2022 0

Poland is not impressed by Russia’s leader Putin to cut the EU country, as well as Bulgaria, off from natural gas. Spring is coming, there are reserves and – how environmentally friendly it may be – a lot of people […]

Heiðarfjall mountain on Iceland (Photo by Peter Ryv (CC))
#Iceland#Nordics#Top Stories

US Military Radar Station Waste Pollutes Iceland, Decades After Withdrawal

19 April 202219 April 2022 0

The United States operated a radar station on Heiðarfjall mountain for 16 years only, but decades after the military withdrawal from the site, the toxic waste the Americans burried underground is poisining the environment. Featured photo: Heiðarfjall mountain on Iceland […]

Central Linköping on a sunny spring day (Photo by Marcel Burger)
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Swedish Cities Want Danish Riot-provocateur Out

19 April 202226 May 2022 0

The city councils and municipality governments of the Swedish cities of Norrköping and Linköping wants the Danish extreme right organisation Stram Kurs and its leader, riot-provocateur and Koran-burner Rasmus Paludan out. They have asked the Swedish police to no longer […]

Centre of Sundsvall (Photo by Marcel Burger)
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Swedish Government Got USA to Lift Sanctions Against Russian Oligarch

14 April 202226 May 2022 0

The Swedish government worked intensely to have the US government lift sanctions against the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. It happened in 2018 and 2019, to save jobs at the Deripaska-owned steel factory of Sundsvall in Northern Sweden. But by then […]

Wind farm on the island of Smøla in Norway (Photo by Statkraft/Bjørn Iuell)
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Norway Back to Wind Power on Land, But It May Be Bad for the Climate

11 April 202210 April 2022 0

Norway restarts building wind power on land, with the Labour government pressing the green button three years after the nation’s parliament said stop. But, critics say onshore wind turbines could actually damage the climate. Featured photo: Wind farm on the […]

Finnish Leopard 2 battle tank during the recent NATO Exercise Cold Response 22 in Norway (Photo by Torbjørn Kjosvold/Forsvaret)
#Finland#Nordics

Finland Starts NATO Membership Request, Media Report

7 April 202226 May 2022 0

Finnish media quote “reliable government sources” the Scandinavian country and neighbour of Russia starts its preparing membership request for the NATO military alliance coming week. Featured image: A Finnish Leopard 2 battle tank during the recent NATO Exercise Cold Response […]

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#Finland#Nordics

Finland’s Europe Minister Calls National Railways Back From Russia, CEO Fired

6 April 202219 April 2022 0

Finland’s national railways VR has been playing yo-yo with its cargo transport to Russia. It took an intervention from the country’s Minister for European Affairs and Ownership Steering to stop it. VR suspended all goods transport to Russia 28 March, […]

One of the soldiers of the Danish battalion training for deployment in May (Photo by Tue Skal/Forsvaret)
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Denmark To Send 800 Combat Troops to Latvia, part of NATO Reinforcement to Baltic States

1 April 202219 April 2022 0

Denmark is ready to send a combat battalion of 800 troops to reinforce Latvia, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said while visiting the Danish continent of 200 troops in Tapa in neighbouring Estonia on 31 March. Featured photo: One of […]

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Lithuanians are crowdfunding a Turkish-made Bayraktar attack drone for the Ukrainian armed forces. They are well underway! Dunno about the logistics of the possible order though. #Lithuania #Ukraine #military

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Swedish government aiming for a wolf hunt, but the animals it wants to kill do not exist, according to the govt's own data. What's going on? #Sweden #wildlife https://nordicreporter.com/2022/05/swedish-government-wants-to-shoot-wolves-that-do-not-exist/

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In 2006 I left my family, friends and the security of a relatively steady editorial job in the Netherlands to move to Sweden, for love. I criss-crossed through my new land like crazy to make a travel guide book, added a new career as a language teacher at elementary and lower secondary schools, and became a freelance Scandinavia correspondent & fixer for Belgian and Dutch media. Since Summer 2021 I live and work as a news and content creator in Poland.

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