Stories from Scandinavia, Poland and the Baltics
A unique fading language spoken by tens of people in a Polish village has been denied official minority status by the country’s president. Despite full backing of both chambers of parliament, right-wing head of state Karol Nawrocki vetoed the proposal […]
The Polish government will not execute the immigration rules of the European Union, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk told the European Committee on Friday, 7 February 2025. Poland is currently chairman of the EU, but this does not change the […]
The Polish liberal government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk wants to abandon the human right to seek asylum. The decision, announced at a party congress in October, is officially meant as a temporarily legal rule that is already very much […]
Unthinkable during the years of conservative PiS party propaganda on Polish national TVP, but now the LGBTIQ+ community in Poland got a “sorry” for being bashed and pictured as a national enemy by public figures on national TV over the […]
UPDATED 17 JANUARY 2024 | Polish truck drivers paused their blockades of the borders with Ukraine until 1 March, after reaching a deal with the new Polish government. The government says it will level the playing field for the truck […]
Accusations that former Polish-born pope John Paul II did little against child abuse inside the Catholic church are not new. But a Dutch journalist says he knew it even for a very long time when John Paul was still archbishop […]
In Finland the voting rights for the Sámi people’s representation (Sameting / Saamelaiskäräjät) have let to a political fight within the Finnish government. Prime Minister Sanna Marin wishes to bring a new, reformed Sámi law in parliament, but her Finance […]
Scandinavia could look much different today than it does. Not only the Swedish-Russian and Swedish-Danish wars might have turned out differently, the far north of Finland could have been much smaller. Because Finland wanted to give these lands away to […]
Shiamuslim imams in Sweden are actively mediating in mediating in sexual services of its members, investigative journalists of Sweden’s national broadcasting company SVT revealed. In a report published in May 2022 many shiamuslim communities were pimping, illegal by Swedish law. […]
Norway restarts building wind power on land, with the Labour government pressing the green button three years after the nation’s parliament said stop. But, critics say onshore wind turbines could actually damage the climate. Featured photo: Wind farm on the […]
While Poland has accepted more than 2.4 million refugees from Ukraine by the end of March, the country seems also to have its logistics in dealing with the humanitarian crisis in order. True, still taking the brunt of sheltering, schooling […]
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 […]