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Sweden buys Piorun shoulder-launched air defence from Poland

21 September 202521 September 2025 by Marcel Burger

Sweden buys an undisclosed number of Piorun shoulder-launched portable air-defence missile systems from Poland, both countries and Polish weapons manufacturer Mesko confirmed on 12 September. The deal, worth about EUR 274 million, was signed at the DSEI international defence trade […]

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British-owned Arriva daughter about to lose Danish railroads, after underperforming

21 September 202521 September 2025 by Marcel Burger

GoCollective in Denmark, a daughter company of British-owned Arriva, is about to lose its railroad transport licence on Jylland (Jutland), the Danish mainland, and Fyn (Funen). After taking up the task of transporting people across the mainland in 2003, GoCollective […]

#Baltics#Estonia#Finland#Nordics#Sweden#Top Stories

Three Russian MiG-31 combat jets over Estonian waters

20 September 202520 September 2025 by Marcel Burger

An outcry by Estonia and several NATO countries over three old Russian Air Force MiG-31 (NATO codename: Foxhound) on 19 September. According to Estonian and NATO sources, the triplet violated Estonian aerospace over the Gulf of Finland near the Estonian […]

#Poland#Top Stories

Enemy in the skies: shooting down Russian drones in Polish aerospace

15 September 202521 September 2025 by Marcel Burger

UPDATED 21 SEPTEMBER 2025 (paragraph Russian Gerbera drone, paragraph Support aircraft from NATO and Poland and new final paragraph) | A total of 21 Russian drones flew into Polish aerospace on Wednesday 10 September, triggering an unprecedented response by Polish […]

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Test of the Israeli surface-to-air missile system David's Sling (Photo: IDF)
#Finland#Nordics

Finland proceeds buying Israeli weaponry, despite war-waging in Gaza

27 October 202314 January 2024

Finland is proceeding buying advanced weaponry from Israel, despite the Israeli bombardments of Gaza that left hundreds to thousands Palestinian civilians dead. A call to end a weapons deal, has been put aside by the Finnish Defence Minister Antti Häkkänen. […]

Svalbard Energi power plant
#Nordics#Norway

An end to coal power on Svalbard, but not for Russia

19 October 202317 December 2023

For decades Longyearbyen, the capital of the Norwegian polar archipelago of Svalbard, was powered by coal. But no more. On 19 October, the town’s power plant stopped running on probably the most environmentally unfriendly power source there is. Featuring image: […]

A Swedish family home (Photo by Marcel Burger)
#Nordics#Sweden

Attacks inside family homes in Sweden, 3 dead. Police says more trouble expected at 150 addresses

13 October 202311 April 2024

Two shootings inside homes where kids and their parents live, left two women and a man dead within a little more than 24 hours in Sweden. The women were shot with their kids nearby or as witness in their home. […]

Artillery ammo (Photo: Vslv (CC))
#Denmark#Nordics

War in Ukraine: Denmark restarts its ammo production

7 October 202314 January 2024

The Danish armed forces will buy the former ammunition production plant Krudten in Elling to restart production for the Danish armed forces. The idea launched three weeks ago by the Danish Minister of Defence will become reality. It is an […]

A Polish farmer in Łapszanka, near the Slovakian border (Photo © Marcel Burger)
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Polish government fuel stunt angers farmers ahead of elections

7 October 202330 October 2023

Many Polish motorists were happy when the state-owned fuel company Orlen dropped the prices at the pump. The move was clearly an attempt by the ruling conservative PiS party to win votes. But in the villages – where PiS normally […]

#Nordics#Sweden

Deadliest night in Sweden: bomb kills 25-yr-old woman in her home; shootings in Stockholm

28 September 202314 January 2024

In one of the deadliest nights in modern Sweden, three people were killed in three incidents. A bomb attack presumably aimed at a local gangster killed a 25-yr-old female neighbour in the Uppsala suburb of Fullerö/Storvreta. In two shootings in […]

#Nordics#Sweden

Cars, bus and hamburger restaurant taken by landslide in Sweden

24 September 202330 October 2023

A sudden landslide at motorway E6 near Stenungsund, north of Gothenburg in Sweden, took cars, a bus, trucks, a hamburger restaurant and more with it on 23 September. The earth moved tens of metres in another direction and fel up […]

A gun as evidence (Photo by Marcel Burger)
#Nordics#Sweden

8 killed in 10 days, Swedish government in crisis meeting

17 September 202320 November 2023

UPDATED 24 SEPTEMBER 2023 | The wave of gang violence in Sweden has become that severe, that the Swedish Prime Minister has called several to a crisis meeting. The news comes after 10 days of shootings and stabbings in Stockholm […]

#Nordics#Norway

Norway arrests man for “signal” spying on government

12 September 20237 October 2023

Norway’s security police (PST) has arrested a 25-year-old man suspected of spying on the government, including the Prime Minister’s office and the Ministry of Defence. The suspect was taken into custody during the weekend, broadcasting company NRK reported. On Tuesday, […]

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Neo-nazis accused for preparing terror attack in Finland

11 September 202314 January 2024

Three neo-nazis stand accused in Finland for preparing a terror attack, that included shooting the then Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin. The trial against the three men, of which the main suspect was a candidate for the so-called True Finns […]

#Nordics#Sweden

Sweden blocks almost 1000 km2 because of outbreak African Swine Fever

8 September 202328 September 2023

UPDATED 18 SEPTEMBER 2023 | The Swedish land usage authority (Jordbruksverket) has declared a massive 1000 square kilometres (620+ sq mi) as a no-go zone for jogging, hunting, picking berries and all other human activities in the forrest that are […]

#Nordics#Norway#Poland

Poland looks to Norway for starting its carbon storage underneath the sea

6 September 202328 September 2023

Poland eyes to Norway to kick-start its storage of CO2 pollution in the atmosphere underneath the Barents Sea. For that it is willing to pay 1 billion US dollars, via its energy company Orlen. So far a subsidiary of the […]

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