Stories from Scandinavia, Poland and the Baltics
UPDATED 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 told staff […]
“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 […]
Poland eyes to Norway to kick-start its storage of CO2 pollution in the atmosphere underneath the Barents Sea. For that it is willing to pay 1 billion US dollars, via its energy company Orlen. So far a subsidiary of the […]
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 […]