This Friday, March 15, marks the inauguration of the €6.2 million NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence’s new building in Tallinn. The center provides facilities needed for the day-to-day work of cyber experts from almost 40 nations. “The fact that the NATO CCDCOE is the only center of excellenceContinue Reading
Finland’s government has chosen Juha Martelius to serve as the new head of the Finnish Security and Intelligence Service (Supo), beginning from 1 April. Martelius will continue to work as State Secretary to Interior Minister Mari Rantanen (Finns) until the end of March. Martelius himself is a member of theContinue Reading
Norway has big plans to pump waste carbon from oil and gas operations and heavy industry under the seabed of the North Sea to be stored safely underground. It believes this method will be key to decarbonizing its fossil fuel activities in the coming years and supporting a green transition.Continue Reading
The government of Sweden is looking at ways to reinforce the garrison on Gotland, the strategically-located island in the center of the Baltic Sea. Gotland is critical for the control of the sea lanes in the region, and it gives Sweden – and its new NATO allies – a profoundContinue Reading
The global volume of international arms transfers fell slightly by 3.3 per cent between 2014–18 and 2019–23, according to new data on international arms transfers published recently. States in Europe almost doubled their imports of major arms (+94 per cent) between 2014–18 and 2019–23. Far larger volumes of arms flowedContinue Reading
There is now no need for NATO bases or nuclear weapons on Swedish soil, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said on Monday. ⠀ “Now we do not see the need for Sweden to place permanent (NATO) bases or nuclear weapons on Swedish soil in peacetime,” he said at a pressContinue Reading
The Nordic Response 24 exercise, taking place in Finnish, Swedish and Norwegian Lapland, is set to end this week and the Finnish Defence Forces say that could cause traffic disruption in the north of Finland. Altogether some 4,100 soldiers from Finland participated in the exercises, along with about 800 vehicles.Continue Reading
When it comes to his country’s support for Ukraine, Denmark’s Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen sees only one red line: “We do not plan on sending soldiers to the field and do not consider this an option,” he said in an interview with Le Monde. For the rest, Denmarkis notContinue Reading
Ukraine has recently reported a number of Russian aircraft shot down or rendered unusable. With this, Ukraine may be creating conditions for the deployment of new aircraft soon to be received from the West, said Air Force Chief of Staff Col. Janek Lehiste. Lehiste told ERR’s “Ukraina stuudio” that theContinue Reading
Finland’s Minister of Climate and the Environment, Kai Mykkänen (NCP), was on a visit to Kyiv, Ukraine on Friday. Mykkänen went to the war-torn country to discuss the environmental damage that the war has caused, according to a ministry press release issued on Friday afternoon. Other anticipated discussion topics includeContinue Reading