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This is Poland’s most expensive work of art

21 June 202521 June 2025 by Marcel Burger

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 […]

#Denmark#Finland#Nordics#Norway#Sweden#Top Stories

Scandinavian countries spent most on defence per capita of all NATO

21 June 202521 June 2025 by Marcel Burger

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) […]

#Poland#Top Stories

Russian secret services behind flammable DHL air freight packages, Poland says

21 June 202521 June 2025 by Marcel Burger

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 […]

#Baltics#Estonia#Nordics#Sweden#Top Stories

Estonia to house up to 600 Swedish prisoners

12 June 202512 June 2025 by Marcel Burger

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 […]

#Nordics#Sweden#Top Stories

Scania plans to purchase EV battery factory

12 June 202512 June 2025 by Marcel Burger

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 […]

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Rzeczywistość by Jacek Malczewski, 1908
#Poland#Top Stories

This is Poland’s most expensive work of art

21 June 202521 June 2025

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 […]

Simulated attack by Swedish ground forces. (Photo by Marcel Burger)
#Denmark#Finland#Nordics#Norway#Sweden#Top Stories

Scandinavian countries spent most on defence per capita of all NATO

21 June 202521 June 2025

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) […]

Air freight and an aircraft (AI generated with Adobe Firefly)
#Poland#Top Stories

Russian secret services behind flammable DHL air freight packages, Poland says

21 June 202521 June 2025

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 […]

#Baltics#Estonia#Nordics#Sweden#Top Stories

Estonia to house up to 600 Swedish prisoners

12 June 202512 June 2025

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 […]

A Scania electric truck on a German road (Photo: Scania CV AB)
#Nordics#Sweden#Top Stories

Scania plans to purchase EV battery factory

12 June 202512 June 2025

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 […]

A Saildrone Explorer unmanned surface vessel (USV) operates with fast response cutter USCGC Robert Goldman (WPC 1142) in the Arabian Gulf during exercise Phantom Scope, Oct. 7. During the bilateral exercise between the United States and United Kingdom, USVs operated in conjunction with crewed ships and naval command centers ashore in Bahrain. (U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Roland Franklin)
#Denmark#Nordics

Denmark adds saildrones to its navy maritime patrol arsenal

1 June 202521 June 2025

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 […]

A wind turbine at sea (AI generated with Adobe Firefly)
#Baltics#Poland

Polish government backs giant offshore wind turbine factory

1 June 202521 June 2025

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 […]

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Poland puts EU Covid money into defence and security

26 May 202512 June 2025

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 […]

A drone at a high school yard in Estonia (AI generated image created with Adobe Firefly)
#Baltics#Estonia

Drone-flying becomes obligatory at high schools in Estonia

26 May 202512 June 2025

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 […]

A gun as evidence (Photo by Marcel Burger)
#Nordics#Sweden

Sweden: 544 potential partner killers, 316 possible serial rapists

18 May 20251 June 2025

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 […]

Paying with a credit card in a shop (AI generated image created with Adobe Firefly)
#Baltics#Lithuania

Lithuania developing offline card payment system

18 May 20251 June 2025

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 […]

The Piorun during field trials in summer 2024 (Press photo: Mesko)
#Poland

Polish air-defence missiles to Belgium

18 May 202526 May 2025

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 […]

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