Stories from Scandinavia, Poland and the Baltics
Joint Viking, a sizeable military exercise in Northern Norway, has kicked off. It brings together about 10,000 NATO troops from Norway, Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States. Military training ops are the […]
The forests in Finland have turned into a storage source for CO2 into carbon polluters. This remarkable observation was made with fresh research by the country’s Natural Resources Institute (Luonnonvarakeskus (Luke)). Overall, growing trees can no longer absorb CO2 fast […]
NATO is to base a battalion-size multinational force in Sodankylä and Rovaniemi in the north of Finland, Finnish Defence Minister Antti Häkkänen confirmed to Finnish national broadcasting company Yle this week. The news is one of the outcomes of the […]
Norway has won the court case brought by the World Wild Fund for Nature (WWF) against the state. On 13 February, the Oslo District Court has given the green light for drilling trials for minerals in the deep waters of […]
The Piorun MANPADS, or Man-Portable Air-Defence System, made in Poland is scoring well. The Ukrainian Armed Forces have used the Polish system, Norway has deployed the system it bought, and the profits are on the rise. But manufacturer Mesko in […]
The Swedish government is working a law adjustment that will make semi-automatic weapons including the popular AR-15 rifle illegal, according to various Swedish sources. The law change, which likely will be passes smoothly by parliament, is a direct reaction to […]
For the first time since joining NATO, the Finnish Air Force protects the skies over Iceland. Four F/A-18 Hornet combat jets have been dispatched to Keflavik Air Base on Iceland and are flying daily air combat patrol over and near […]
The Swedish Armed Forces have joined their country’s first NATO mission on 7 February 2025. The 500 troops are now at full strength at Ādaži military base near Riga in Latvia, and since this day officially placed under NATO command. […]
The Polish government will not execute the immigration rules of the European Union, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk told the European Committee on Friday, 7 February 2025. Poland is currently chairman of the EU, but this does not change the […]
In Oskarshamn, on the southeast coast of Sweden, construction has started on the country’s first modern small nuclear power plant. Minister of Economic Affairs and Energy, Ebba Bush, took the symbolic first sod on 3 February 2025. Located in the […]
UPDATE 5 FEB 2025, 19:05 CET | Ten people have been killed and at least six wounded by a lone 35-year-old gunman at a school for adults in Örebro, Central Sweden, around 12:30 CET on Tuesday 4 February 2025. The […]
Sweden has launched its first military satellite, called the Gna-3. Weighing 4 kilos, it is meant to safeguard Swedish military communications at all times. According to the Swedish Ministry of Defence it rotates the earth for times a day at […]