Stories from Scandinavia, Poland and Beyond
A large majority of the parliament of Greenland, which is part of Denmark, wants its own constitution and will officially ask the self-governing government to start writing it on 6 October. The Danish National Radio (DR) reported this on Monday. […]
The Swedish car brand Saab, owned by the Dutch Swedish Automobile, has lost its pearls. Even before the company received permission from the court on Wednesday to reorganize, the Swedish state-owned bailiff’s organization Kronofogden seized all 109 museum cars of […]
The Swedish Coast Guard is fighting one of the country’s biggest oil spills this weekend. On Sunday morning 120,000 litres had already been cleared, but an overall picture is still missing. A Coast Guard spokesperson gave more details on Sunday. […]
At least 57 Swedish citizens were spies in their own country for the East German intelligence service Stasi during the Cold War. This is evident from the new book Not only spies by professor and researcher Birgitta Almgren, which was […]
At least three people killed in the 22 July shooting on the Norwegian island of Utøya were elected to Norwegian municipality councils on 12 September. Data from the electoral commissions and Norway’s Labour Party on Thursday show that Bano Rashid, […]
On the night from Saturday to Sunday, ten years after the major terrorist attacks on 11 September in the United States, special Swedish police units arrested four possible terrorists during the opening of the art biennale in Gothenburg. Before that, […]
For the second time in two weeks Norwegian police has arrested a right-wing extremist with weapons and explosives. According to a spokesperson of the Vestfold police district it concerns a 27-year-old man in the municipality of Larvik, 100 kilometres south-west […]