Stories from Scandinavia, Poland and Beyond
Sweden seems to be under the spell of espionage. In the same month as many juicy details of probably the biggest contra-espionage failure in recent Swedish history came out, the Swedish security police arrested another two suspected spies. This time […]
Two brothers with Iranian roots have been arrested in Sweden for what looks like a giant espionage scandal that hits the country’s basic intelligence services at its core. The oldest brother was a senior leader within the most secret part […]
Sweden is not prepared to last during a war. To protect the civilian population and to make the country resilient in case of conflict almost EUR 3 billion a year is necessary for the biggest needs, according to the civilian […]
Sweden will have a new government. On Friday 14 October the speaker of the house nominated conservative leader Ulf Kristersson of the Moderaterna as new prime minister. He will form a government with the Liberals and the Christian party (Kristdemokraterna). […]
It is too early to tell who is responsible for the “deliberate sabotage” of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines in the Baltic Sea, four Swedish ministers jointly declared during a press conference in the afternoon of Wednesday 5 […]
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 […]
A total of 289 member of parliament or candidating members for the national, regional or local parliaments in the upcoming Autumn 2022 national elections are openly nazistic or racists, according to a report by Acta Publica which is one of […]
Scandinavia could look much different today that 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 […]
Featured photo: The centre of Visby (Photo by Marcel Burger) The killing of Ing-Marie Wieselgren, the psychiatric care coordinator of Sweden’s municipalities and regions, is officially classed as a terror attack. If convicted, the 32-year-old arrested suspect – a ultright […]
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. […]