Stories from Scandinavia, Poland and the Baltics
The Polish liberal government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk wants to abandon the human right to seek asylum. The decision, announced at a party congress in October, is officially meant as a temporarily legal rule that is already very much […]
In line with the pressing advice of the Swedish armed forces, the Swedish government blocks 13 of 14 planned offshore wind farms in the Baltic Sea. According to the defence ministry, wind turbines will block the country’s ability to detect […]
On 5 November 2024, a court in Malmö, Sweden, has sentenced the Danish politician Rasmus Paludan to four months in jail, for incitement against an ethnic group in Sweden in 2022. The Danish provocateur burned a Quran and made statements […]