Stories from Scandinavia, Poland and the Baltics
Many Polish motorists were happy when the state-owned fuel company Orlen dropped the prices at the pump. The move was clearly an attempt by the ruling conservative PiS party to win votes. But in the villages – where PiS normally […]
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 […]
It is said to be the world’s first big, commercial carbon capture storage deal, and Norway is where it happens. Off the coast of Bergen, in the seabed of the North Sea, CO2 will be stored to help combat the […]
In six years Sweden will have its own electric passenger aircraft, made by up to 500 workers in Gothenburg. Fairytale? Legacy Swedish aircraft maker SAAB and Air Canada have already signed up as minority shareholders, and Air Canada is buying […]
The Swedish government worked intensely to have the US government lift sanctions against the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. It happened in 2018 and 2019, to save jobs at the Deripaska-owned steel factory of Sundsvall in Northern Sweden. But by then […]
Finland’s national railways VR has been playing yo-yo with its cargo transport to Russia. It took an intervention from the country’s Minister for European Affairs and Ownership Steering to stop it. VR suspended all goods transport to Russia 28 March, […]
Renowned Swedish companies such as Sandvik, SKF, Seco Tools, Atlas Copco and the less known Water Jet Sweden have in the course of many years delivered machines or parts to the Russian nuclear weapons program, through their Russian daughter companies […]