Stories from Scandinavia, Poland and the Baltics
The year 2025 starts violently in Sweden. During a press conference in Stockholm on 29 January, the Swedish police say they have registered 30 attacks with explosive devices in January alone. Meaning: more than one detonation per day. Most of […]
A striking majority of the Greenlanders would vote “no” to new American president Donald Trump’s power play to make Greenland the next state of the United States. According to a poll done on behalf of the Danish newspaper Berlingske and […]
The world’s largest public fund, Norway’s Oljefundet, did very well in 2024. The value increased by almost EUR 340 billion (NOK 4,000) in a year time. In 2024, the Oil Fund had more than 11,000 investments in companies and projects […]
Finnish airport authorities say that aeroplane flights were jammed 2,800 times by Russia over the course of 2024, Finnish media corporation Uutissuomalainen reports. A few years ago, aeroplanes mainly relied on GPS in their approach, landings and take-offs of airports. […]
Four Polish shoulders have been charged of negligence of duty after they failed to offload 240 anti-tank mines from a train near the city of Szczecin, in the north of the country. The mines travelled on for 10 days – […]
Sweden buys 44 new Leopard 2 A8 battle tanks and will modernise its 66 existing Leopard 2 tanks to a similar standard. The Swedish government announced this EUR 1.9 billion investment this week, emphasizing that by 2031 the Swedish Armed […]
Greenland will not be a part of the United States of America. With clear statements by all political parties of the Arctic island semi-independence state, Greenland clearly says “no” to the wish of US president-elect Donald Trump to annex Greenland […]
The number of people killed by gun fire in Sweden has remarkably declined in 2024, according to the statistics of the Council of Crime Prevention (Brottfsförbyggande rådet, Brå) of Sweden, and Swedish broadcasting company SVT. In 2022 62 people were […]
In about one month, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania cut themselves off from the Russian power grid, called BRELL. On February 8, the Baltic electricity operators will leave the Russian power supply, and join the European on the 9th, a year […]
The train companies of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have made it easier to travel to the capitals of the three Baltic states by train. Launch on 6 January, it is now possible to make the entire stretch in 10 hours, […]
UPDATE 3 MARCH 2025 | On Friday, 3 January 2025, the Finnish authorities confirmed they continue having the crude oil tanker Eagle S and its crew impounded in Finnish territorial waters. The vessel, reportedly part of the “Russian shadow fleet”, […]
Lithuania has struck an agreement with German-based defence corporation KNDS to buy 44 new Leopard 2A8 tanks of the latest standard. The tanks are to be delivered by 2030, according to the Lithuanian Ministry of Defence. However, the time frame […]
