Stories from Scandinavia, Poland and the Baltics
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 […]
Despite its green image and far-going recycling plan that has been active for decades, Sweden only reuses 10 percent of its plastic waste. Data from the Swedish Nature Protection Authority (Naturvårdsverket) shows that the 10 million people living in Sweden […]
The Swedish Parliament sacked the country’s prime minister Stefan Löfven on 21 June 2021, sacked over the proposed axing of the limit of rent increases and rent limits, thus protection of the working class. It is a historic event, as […]
A parliamentary committee is conducting a major investigation into Sweden’s approach to the COVID-19 virus. Especially in neighbourhoods with many immigrants and less social standards the impact was underestimated, it turns out. Tonight at 21:30 on Dutch Public TV in […]
Today marks my 15 Years Living in Sweden, the country that “tricked” me into liking it ever since I came to visit friends in 2001. The day after arrival I was treated with the traditional August party (Kräftskiva) at Skokloster […]
Building outposts far away from the mainland has always been done for projection of power, for military or economical gains, often at the costs of the people or the lands of what started as small settlements. The imperialism of the […]
Since World War Two Sweden has been a welcoming harbour for many. Polish submarine crews, a Norwegian army division, Danish jews, suppressed people from Latin America, those fleeing the Balkans wars and a few years ago many Syrians. But in […]
