Stories from Scandinavia, Poland and the Baltics
A painting of people made in 1908 by Polish painter Jacek Malczewski has become Poland’s most expensive work of art. It was auctioned in Poland in mid-June for EUR 5.2 million. “Rzeczywistość” (Reality in English) is an oil painting on […]
Apart from the United States, the Scandinavian countries spent most on defence per capita of all NATO members in 2024, according to a summary made by Dutch public broadcasting company NOS. Norway is the second-biggest spender (EUR 1,765 per capita) […]
A series of flammable air freight packages sent via DHL from several European countries is the work of the Russian secret services, the Polish public prosecutor office says. In Poland, 5 Ukrainians and one Russian are in custody for it […]
Estonia and Sweden are close to a deal to house up to 600 Swedish inmates in a prison in Tartu. The Swedish prison capacity is insufficient, and the one in Estonia is open to include the Swedish convicts. The Tartu […]
Swedish truck manufacturer Scania is seeking to buy one of the EV battery factories of the bankrupt Swedish company Northvolt. The site in Västerås is what the truck company wants to have, but not alone. “We are trying to form […]
Officially still a test, Denmark will start fielding unmanned Saildrones to patrol its seas from Jun 2025. Armed with 20 different sensors, cameras and radar, an undisclosed number of Saildrones will be deployed, linking up their data to the Danish […]
The Polish government has allocated EUR 54 million to support what it is calling a “the world’s largest factory for offshore monopiles”. The plant is to be built in Northern Poland by Spanish Windar Renovables, and i it supposed to […]
Poland has reached a deal with the European Commission to use EUR 6.1 billion in EU post-Covid pandemic recovery money for defence and security purposes, the Polish government said on 23 May 2025. The funds are to be directed to […]
How to fly and use a drone will be part of the compulsory national defence education at high schools in Estonia. This is the result of an agreement between that the government parties reached on 26 May 2026. Flying drones […]
The Swedish police has identified 544 people who are considered to be that highly instable that they could take the life of their partner, and about 316 others who could be potential serial rapists. National police chief for preventing these […]
Lithuania is in the advance stages of introducing an offline card payment system in case the country’s banking system or internet goes down because of a technical reason, sabotage or cyberattack. Simonas Krėpšta, a board member of the Bank of […]
Polish arms manufacturer Mesko is likely to deliver 200 to 300 of Piorun shoulder-launched air-defence missile systems, the company announced. Both countries signed a letter of intent on 14 May 2025, with the official deal to be concluded on a […]
