The latest shipment brings the total value of defence support provided by Finland to Ukraine since Russia’s invasion in February 2022 to 1.5 billion euros. Finland is preparing to send additional defence materiel to Ukraine, the Finnish Ministry of Defence announced in a press release on Friday. The latest shipmentContinue Reading
Finland announced plans to close four border crossing points in the southeast from midnight on Friday, but four more will remain open further north along the country’s frontier with Russia. Finland’s government is prepared to take further action if Thursday’s decision to close four crossing points on the border withContinue Reading
Finland will send more defence materiel to assist Ukraine. The President of the Republic decided on the matter on 17 November 2023 on the proposal of the Government. – What is at stake in Ukraine’s defence struggle is the security environment outlook on Europe and Finland in the current decade.Continue Reading
The European Commission has estimated that Estonia will have experienced the largest recession of any European Union Member State, with a contraction of 2.6 percent. In 2024, however, the commission says in its recently published autumn forecast that the Estonian economy should grow, by 1.9 percent, while inflation will fall,Continue Reading
Sweden’s much-lauded model of prosperity and social comfort is threatened by a lack of public investment. The former United States president Ronald Reagan famously declared: ‘The nine most terrifying words in the English language are “I’m from the government and I’m here to help”.’ This is often rehearsed to assertContinue Reading
New research suggests that ancient polar bear populations shrank as sea ice dwindled, adding weight to concerns about the predator’s future as climate change melts the Arctic. “The population size seems to have decreased at a time when temperatures went up and sea ice went down,” said Paul Szpak, aContinue Reading
Joining NATO is not like joining the Schengen Zone — it is a commitment to shed blood for one another in the event of any invasion, Dr Gladden Pappin writes. Fifteen months after Sweden was invited to join NATO, its accession to the joint defence alliance is at a clearContinue Reading
Dock workers in Sweden are threatening to block deliveries of new Teslas entering the country, in the most serious labor dispute the company has faced in Europe to date. Teslas arrive into Sweden via four ports, Malmö, Gothenburg, Trelleborg, and Södertälje, according to the Swedish Transport Workers’ Union, which representsContinue Reading
The United States on Oct 27 opened its northernmost diplomatic station, highlighting the increased importance of the Arctic region for Washington at a time when cooperation among Arctic nations has been hit by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced the opening of the station, in Tromsoe,Continue Reading
Estonia is providing training courses to help Ukrainian healthcare professionals develop their post-amputation rehabilitation skills and knowledge. Twenty specialists from hospitals in Kyiv and Zhytomyr took part in the first course, which ended last week, in Tallinn. The training is designed to cover the principles and possibilities of modern rehabilitation.Continue Reading