The average electricity price in Estonia on Friday will be €81.45 per Megawatt Hour (MWh), a rise of 29 percent, between Thursday and Friday. The average price of electricity per MWh on Thursday was €63.01 on the Nord Pool exchange. The cheapest rates are to be had between 2 a.m.Continue Reading
Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto (Green) has said that recent meetings between German and Russian leaders indicate that ongoing tensions in Ukraine could still be resolved through diplomatic means. The security situation in the region remains strained, with western countries expressing concern about an impending attack on Ukraine as RussiaContinue Reading
Sweden has no plans now to apply for NATO membership and isn’t considering the issue, the country’s Foreign Minister Ann Linde said on Monday. This is stated in the foreign policy declaration 2022, released by the country’s government. “Freedom from military alliances serves us well and contributes to stability andContinue Reading
Fem oppositionspartier vill markera det svenska självbestämmandet att kunna gå med i Nato. Men regeringen vill inte ha någon sådan diskussion och tvekar även inför kravet att låta exportera försvarsmaterial till Ukraina. Samtidigt får Sverigedemokraterna kritik för att inte stödja att EU-pengar går till Ukraina. Utrikesminister Ann Linde (S) presenterade påContinue Reading
Asked in an interview on Yle TV1 on Wednesday morning why the Finnish Defence Forces (FDF) raised their level of internal security on Tuesday, Minister of Defence Antti Kaikkonen (Cen) said that, “Times are such that the Defence Forces are taking their own measures,” but denied that Finland is facingContinue Reading
The COVID-19 pandemic has already peaked in Lithuania, Health Minister Arunas Dulkys says. “Today, we can truly say, based on the figures, that we have already peaked,” he told reporters on Monday, citing the general COVID-19 statistics. “Despite the fact that the general hospitalization figures continue to growth or theContinue Reading
KRIGSFRYKT: Norge og de andre nordiske landene må være forberedt på at ukrainere på flukt kommer hit hvis det blir krig, tror forsker Jakub M. Godzimirski. En eventuell krig kan utløse en stor flyktningkrise i Europa. Landene nærmest vil få flest flyktninger fra Ukraina: Polen, Romania og Slovakia forbereder segContinue Reading
A new poll suggests that a right-wing government could enter power after Sweden’s upcoming September elections. But a fragmented political map makes predictions difficult. The poll, commissioned and published on 11 February by the newspaper close to the Social Democratic Party, Aftonbladet, shows that the Social Democrats continue to be theContinue Reading
Helsinki courts are set to be congested with cases against around 850 activists detained on demonstrations urging action on climate change, rising petrol prices and Covid restrictions. The majority of the activists were detained during protests by Elokapina, the Finnish branch of the climate group Extinction Rebellion, and are chargedContinue Reading
The Baltic foreign ministers are preparing to travel to Ukraine amid Western concerns that Russia may invade its neighbor, Lithuania’s top diplomat Gabrielius Landsbergis said on Monday evening. “We have tentatively agreed with our Baltic colleagues (…) on our possible visit (to Ukraine) in the near future,” he told theContinue Reading