Stories from Scandinavia, Poland and the Baltics
Poland seems to have started a new course. Firstly, the government and opposition are since 29 March aligned on banning Russian coal – despite no EU-backing and Poland’s substantial need for coal. Secondly, the government seems to blow new life […]
The city of Oslo must be happy. It managed to bail out Finnish energy giant Fortum of its 50 percent share in the Klemetsrud Energy Recovery Plant, with some outside help. The other half is owned by the municipality. Klemetsrud […]
The Royal Norwegian Navy will have to sail more often, to increase its deterrence role against Russia. This is part of the new government plans to give the armed forces of NATOs northeastern flank EUR 362 million extra this year. […]
Danish gas consumption can be entirely green by 2027, and completely independent of Russia. The sector organisation Biogas Danmark says the Scandinavian country has plenty of resources to make it happen. “Danish biogas can phase out fossil gas consumption in […]
Finland’s first new nuclear reactor in 40 years, and Western Europe’s first new in 15 years, has been delivering electricity seemingly without a problem for 3 days now. It marks the Scandinavian nation’s drive towards non-fossil independency for its energy. […]
I’m going to have a new classmate, the 10-year old son of a friend told me, he is from Ukraine. A little more than a week later three more Ukrainian kids will join his class, his teacher has said. This […]
Despite the sanctions the European Union, including Sweden, has imposed on Russia, on Friday almost 47,000 tons of Russian-made aircraft fuel was delivered to the city of Gävle, 2 hours north of Stockholm. Both Sweden’s main international airport Arlanda, as […]
A weird twister story around the war in Ukraine comes from Poland. After the European Union turned into an arms broker in February and advocated deliveries of fighter jets from Bulgaria, Slovakia and Poland to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Poland […]
On 27 February Sweden announced it would deliver 5,000 man-portable AT4 anti-tank weapons, 5,000 helmets and 5,000 bullet-proof vests to Ukraine, to help the country defend itself against the Russian invasion. The shipment dwarfed many of similar promises of other […]
Russia has taken renewed interest in the island of Bornholm, strategically located in the Baltic Sea, and part of Denmark. 76 years after the last Soviet troops left, Moscow still feels it has a say in what happens on the […]
While the world was wondering about the boundaries of Russia’s ambitions with Ukraine this week, one “block” to the west another border is not loosing its grim look either. Poland is a few weeks underway in making its own “Berlin […]
With Russian forces massing on the border with Ukraine and the Russian navy sending more amphibious landing vessels into the Baltic Sea, by mid-January 2022 Sweden reacted. Troops were rushed to Gotland, the Baltic Sea’s most strategic island, to mark […]
