Stories from Scandinavia, Poland and the Baltics
Poland is beefing up its defence capacity with locally produced precision-guided missiles for the 288 K239 Chunmoo mobile artillery missile systems it ordered from South Korea in 2022. The launchers, dubbed Homar-K in Polish service, are to be loaded with […]
One day before the end of 2025, Latvia has completed its 280-kilometre (174-miles) long border fence with Russia. The completion confirmed by the Latvian Interior Ministry was made public by the national broadcasting company LSM and Latgale Regional Television. The […]
As announced earlier, the Danish mail services PostNord are cancelling letter mail deliveries as of 1 January 2026. That means the about 1,200 typical red mail boxes will be taken off the streets as well. PostNord Denmark has announced it […]
The Polish Border Guards discovered another illegal tunnel under the border fence with Belarus this week. It is the fourth one this year. The tunnel is used by Belarus to push immigrants into Poland in order to destabilise the country, […]
With the 24-metre (78.7 feet) long Reach Remote 1 and 2, Norway is leading the market for unmanned, remotely controlled vessels for the offshore industry. In other words: in maritime drones for peaceful purposes. The Reach-vessels are reportedly the biggest […]
The Finnish government wants to expand the army reserves to 1 million soldiers by 2031. And, it will be easy to do, according to the experts. Not only will the bill to adjust the law likely be accepted by the […]
The Johan Sverdrup oil field in Norway, run by Norway’s state-owned energy company Equinor, is under fire. Despite being profiled as a “climate-friendly” offshore oil field with little CO2 emissions, the site apparently releases too much of even more damaging […]
10,000 Polish soldiers are to be deployed on their home turf in an attempt to prevent critical infrastructure to be hit by sabotage. The government decision comes after Prime Minister Tusk indirectly accused Russia for the latest sabotage: the blow […]
In the biggest train deal of the country ever, Polish state railways PKP has committed itself to buy 42 double-deck trains from French manufacturer Alstom, who has production facilityies in Chorzów and Nadarzyn, Poland. As PKP Intercity trains, the 42 […]
Despite troublesome relations and EU sanctions against Belarus, for its support of Russia in the war against Ukraine, about 1,000 Belarusians crossed into the EU via Lithuania every day. This was before Lithuania closed its remaining two border crossings with […]
The world’s largest publicly owned investment fund, the Norwegian Oil Fund (Oljefondet), is putting new ethic policies on hold. The Norwegian parliament agreed with a proposition of the country’s government to freeze more ethic investments. The course change comes about […]
There are about 17,500 active core criminal gangsters in Sweden, new data of the Swedish police shows. That is a 25% increase compared to last year. Another 50,000 people in Sweden are aligned with those gang members, meaning they are […]
