The State of Norway has again to show up in court because it has given company licenses to drill for oil in the Arctic region. After lower judges ruled it was kind of okay, environmental watchdog Greenpeace and two Norwegian organisation are stepping up their efforts and want a final ruling from the highest Norwegian […]
Radio talks
ISIS woman splits Norwegian govt to almost goodbye
The populistic Frp party has left the Norwegian government, over the return of a woman of the radical ISIS organisation and her son. However the ultra-right Frp remains a strong force when it comes to government decisions. Click to listen to my radio talk (in Dutch)Scroll to 00:49:29 into the broadcastVRT Radio 1, De Wereld […]
Finland stops fake news
While everybody in the world is more or less influenced by fake news, there is one Scandinavian country that prides itself in dealing with it successfully: Finland. Sharing an extensive border with Russia the land of the 1001 lakes is long accustomed to the outside (read: Moscow) trying to clout things. Click to listen to […]
Dirty Secrets underneath the Greenland Icecap
It sounds like a story from the James Bond movies. Underneath the icecap of Greenland a secret military base is hiding, powered by a nuclear reactor. Up to 300 nuclear missiles are tucked away in tunnels of hundreds of kilometres long; maintained, serviced and defended by thousands of soldiers living out of sight. Click to […]
ASAP Rocky convicted of assault, but a free man
ASAP Rocky has been convicted of assault for a street fight in Sweden. The sentence is two months in jail, but the US rapper stays a free man anyway. A Swedish judge has spoken. How and why this is possible I talked about on Belgian Radio 1, in the equivalent of The World Today. Click […]