Stories from Scandinavia, Poland and the Baltics
The now 33-year-old Swedish diplomat Johan Floderus has been illegally held by Iran for more than 500 days. The case – already known within Sweden for some time – got world media attention on 5 September, when the New York […]
Europe will turn into Alaska from the year 2060. If the predictions in a new report by scientists of the University of Copenhagen are correct, the warm ocean currents that have given the continent a relatively mild climate will stop […]
Actors supported by Russia are actively involved in black painting Sweden as an anti-Muslim country. Swedish Minister for Civil Defence, Carl Oskar Bohlin, said this during a press conference in Stockholm on 26 July 2023. “We see how Russian-backed actors […]
The Norwegian military is renewing its air defence radar network. Eight new radar installations will be place across the country. But, it is not as easy as it seems. The first new radar planned, north of Oslo, will interfere with […]
What is the worst European military helicopter program ever in delays, cost overruns, underperforming machines and crazy operating costs and maintenance, the NH90, gets another blow. After Norway announced it would kill the NH90 in its service, Sweden wants to […]
Kristian D, who was sentenced in 2021 in Sweden for spying on Scania and Volvo Cars, gave the codes of Volvo’s autonomous driving on a USB stick to Russian “diplomat”. The discovery made by investigative journalists of the Scandinavian national […]
The Swedish Armed Forces have taken delivery of their first naval vessel in more than a decade. HMS Artemis is the new signal intelligence vessel, a spy ship, which once tested will replace the aging HMS Orion in 2024. The […]
The 17 new long distance, night trains that Norwegian railway company Norske Tog is buying from the Swiss firm Stadler will have their own Viking ship for kids on board. The “ship” is shown on released press material. From 2027 […]
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 […]
Norway’s Oil and Energy Department is about to take a stronger stand on the power guzzling data centres, after the latest deal to put a new one for the Chinese social media platform TikTok in Hamar got a lot of […]
The recent find of an object of about 40 centimetres high and a diameter of 10 centimetres near the Nord Stream 2 pipeline is no reason for concern, Danish defence experts say in Danish media. On 24 March 2023 the […]
UPDATED 14 FEBRUARY 2023 – Finland, the Scandinavian country with a 1,340 km (830 mi) long border with Russia, has agreed to help the Ukraine armed forces with its tank force. But according to Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin this […]
