Stories from Scandinavia, Poland and the Baltics
Poland’s state oil and gas company Orlen has halted the construction of a billion dollar petrochemical refinery near Płock, blaming skyrocketing costs as the reason. The project called Olefin III was launched with a lot of noise by the previous […]
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 […]
UPDATED 23 and 6 OCTOBER 2024 (original publication 10 September 2024) – Northvolt, the Swedish battery manufacturer, is downsizing considerably. Seen as a promise for the future of electric mobility when it was founded in 2015, its CEO has now […]
“There are signs that Russian intelligence services are behind the fire in the Spłonęło shopping centre, although our investigation is still ongoing,” said Polish Prime Minster Donald Tusk at a press conference on 21 May 2024. The shopping centre was […]
The Swedish SAAB defence corporation is continuing doing good business with its internationally acclaimed Carl-Gustaf M4 rocket-propelled grenade launchers, better known as anti-tank weapons launched from the shoulder. Featured press photo: SAAB Poland has ordered the Carl-Gustaf launchers and ammunitions […]
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 24 JANUARY 2024 | Two fugitive members of parliament, both former ministers, of the conservative PiS party that were arrested by Polish police officers inside the Presidential Palace in Warsaw on 10 January 2024, were released from prison late […]
Swedish authorities blame Russia for the biggest GPS sabotage in the Baltic Sea, ever recorded. On 18 December last year, the first civilian plane reported total loss of satellite navigation. Soon large parts of Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, […]
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 […]
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 […]