Stories from Scandinavia, Poland and the Baltics
For the first time ever, Greenland’s capital of Nuuk is reachable by normal long-distance passenger flights since 28 November 2024. On this day, the renewed longer runway was opened, making take-offs and landings possible with aircraft types like the Boeing […]
The ice sheet of Greenland lost about 80 gigatons of ice from Summer 2023 to Summer 2024, scientists of the National Geological Research of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) announced in a press release on 9 September. The melting of the […]
Problems with its navy vessels, and limited winter operability of its reconnaissance planes. The Danish armed forces are not up for the military protection of Greenland and the Faroe Islands. While Russian establishment in the Arctic region and Atlantic is […]
As a clear sign of the new geopolitical situation in the Arctics, Greenland has officially “joined” NATO with its own diplomat, as part of the permanent Danish political delegation to the military alliance in Brussels. Naalakkersuisut, which is the government […]
After half a century of disagreement, Denmark and Canada have officially ended the conflict known as “Whisky War” over rock island of Hans. Instead, the European and North American nations are now becoming land neighbours. It is the long awaited […]