Stories from Scandinavia, Poland and Beyond
The prison in Oslo, Norway, is struggling with unusual vacancy rates, as the Norwegian justice system has ‘delivered’ fewer convicts since the terror attacks of 22 July. Prison director Stig Meisler Storvik confirmed this on Monday to the Norwegian national […]
Police in Norway’s Nordre Buskerud stopped the sales of the red ‘Utøya boat’ on Thursday, after a storm of criticism. A month after the massacre on Utøya, the corps wanted to get rid of its ‘black sheep’: the rubber boat […]
The Swedish secret service kept an eye on Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad during World War II, because according to the service, he was “a very active Nazi”. This became known on Wednesday when a new book by investigative journalist Elisabeth […]
The world’s first-ever female TV anchor, Gun Hägglund, died after a short period of illness. The family announced this on Tuesday. Hägglund started her career in 1955 on Swedish radio. In 1958 she first appeared on television in Aktuellt, the […]
More than a month after the heaviest rainfall in 400 years, the Danish capital Copenhagen is still struggling with the aftermath. Since Friday, the municipal council urgently advices all residents in the centre and surrounding districts to boil their drinking […]
The Norwegian capital of Oslo has started cautiously with the reconstruction of the administrative heart on Thursday. A car bomb severely damaged six government buildings and the Supreme Court on 22 July. Workers first placed reinforced wooden walls of 3.6 […]
A private school in Danish Århus has ties to ultra-right and the secret ORG network that since the 1980s has allegedly been trying to “cleanse” Denmark of foreigners and “traitors” who help foreigners. Danish media reported this on Friday. The […]