Stories from Scandinavia, Poland and the Baltics
The city councils and municipality governments of the Swedish cities of Norrköping and Linköping wants the Danish extreme right organisation Stram Kurs and its leader, riot-provocateur and Koran-burner Rasmus Paludan out. They have asked the Swedish police to no longer […]
The Swedish government worked intensely to have the US government lift sanctions against the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. It happened in 2018 and 2019, to save jobs at the Deripaska-owned steel factory of Sundsvall in Northern Sweden. But by then […]
Finnish media quote “reliable government sources” the Scandinavian country and neighbour of Russia starts its preparing membership request for the NATO military alliance coming week. Featured image: A Finnish Leopard 2 battle tank during the recent NATO Exercise Cold Response […]
Renowned Swedish companies such as Sandvik, SKF, Seco Tools, Atlas Copco and the less known Water Jet Sweden have in the course of many years delivered machines or parts to the Russian nuclear weapons program, through their Russian daughter companies […]
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 […]
Despite the sanctions the European Union, including Sweden, has imposed on Russia, on Friday almost 47,000 tons of Russian-made aircraft fuel was delivered to the city of Gävle, 2 hours north of Stockholm. Both Sweden’s main international airport Arlanda, as […]
On 27 February Sweden announced it would deliver 5,000 man-portable AT4 anti-tank weapons, 5,000 helmets and 5,000 bullet-proof vests to Ukraine, to help the country defend itself against the Russian invasion. The shipment dwarfed many of similar promises of other […]
With Russian forces massing on the border with Ukraine and the Russian navy sending more amphibious landing vessels into the Baltic Sea, by mid-January 2022 Sweden reacted. Troops were rushed to Gotland, the Baltic Sea’s most strategic island, to mark […]
Despite its green image and far-going recycling plan that has been active for decades, Sweden only reuses 10 percent of its plastic waste. Data from the Swedish Nature Protection Authority (Naturvårdsverket) shows that the 10 million people living in Sweden […]
The Swedish Parliament sacked the country’s prime minister Stefan Löfven on 21 June 2021, sacked over the proposed axing of the limit of rent increases and rent limits, thus protection of the working class. It is a historic event, as […]
A parliamentary committee is conducting a major investigation into Sweden’s approach to the COVID-19 virus. Especially in neighbourhoods with many immigrants and less social standards the impact was underestimated, it turns out. Tonight at 21:30 on Dutch Public TV in […]
Today marks my 15 Years Living in Sweden, the country that “tricked” me into liking it ever since I came to visit friends in 2001. The day after arrival I was treated with the traditional August party (Kräftskiva) at Skokloster […]