Stories from Scandinavia, Poland and the Baltics
From 1 January 2026, foreigners living in Lithuania and working in service jobs are obligated to speak Lithuanian. The matter was already agreed upon by parliament (Sejm) in 2024, but with only a few months left, there are some worries […]
The border controls reinstated by the centre-left Polish government, who fell for the pressure of ultraright groups, has led to loads of annoyed motorists at the Polish borders. For example, on Friday, traffic jams up to 12 kilometres (7.5 miles) […]
The Polish ambassador was already not at his embassy in Budapest, Hungary, since December, but now the Polish government has officially reduced the status of the diplomatic relations with the Hungarian regime. The Polish ambassador as a function has been […]
Leader of the populistic Dawn of Nemunas (Nemuno Aušra) political party in Lithuania, and Member of Parliament, Remigijus Žemaitaitis has been denied access to classified state information, Lithuanian media reported on 24 April 2025. Such information access is normally granted, […]
“President Trump says that the USA will take Greenland. Let me be very clear: the USA will not do that. We belong to nobody. We decide over our own future.” Greenland’s new Government Leader Jens-Frederik Nielsen waves Trump off, again, […]
“Enough is enough!” With this key message, hundreds of Greenlanders protested against the US president Trump’s ambitions to take Greenland as US territory on Saturday 15 March 2025. The biggest protest took place in the capital of Nuuk, and is […]
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 Danish government has decided to put the planned construction of an island just for the production of renewable energy on hold. The island was planned 15 kilometres south of the strategically situated island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. […]
UPDATED 11 FEBRUARY 2025 | The semi-autonomous parliament of Greenland is expected to quickly block foreign money to political parties, during a meeting on 4 February. The sudden law change, proposed by the current government of the island nation, is […]
Lithuanian Deputy Finance Minister Valentin Gavrilov resigned on 28 January, after being accused of supporting Russia. Gavrilov has Russian social media accounts and seemed to support the celebration of Soviet Victory Day, Lithuanian media report. On his Facebook page he […]
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 […]
As its final act, the exiting government of Iceland has given the green light for another five years of commercial whale hunt, until 2029. Only two other countries allow this kind of whale hunt: Norway and Japan. The Icelandic government […]