For years, Maja Kristine Jåma and the Sámi community in Fovsen-Njaarke have been at odds with the Norwegian state over the decision to construct wind turbines in an area crucial for their reindeer herding. In October 2021, the Supreme Court in Norway unanimously ruled that the wind power plant, nowContinue Reading
Arctic Dolphin is an annual military exercise focused on the annual submarine commander course. It involves the participation of Norwegian and allied military ships and aircraft and takes place in the North Sea off the coast of Bergen and in areas between Stord and Sognefjorden. The exercise is important forContinue Reading
Meloni, leader of the right-wing populist Brothers of Italy party, is the second government leader to visit Kristersson after Finland’s Sanna Marin, who was in Stockholm earlier this week. The two leaders will discuss migration, as well as how the EU should respond to the American Inflation Reduction Act (IRA),Continue Reading
The Baltic states will continue to send military aid to Ukraine, and support the sending of fighter jets, the prime ministers of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania said at a meeting in Tallinn on Friday. Estonia is leading the Baltic cooperation formats this year and the trio discussed Ukraine, joint infrastructureContinue Reading
Turkey may ratify Finland’s bid to join the Nato military alliance by March at the latest, according to a report (siirryt toiseen palveluun) by the Bloomberg news agency. Citing anonymous sources, the agency added that while Finland may have done enough to resolve Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan‘s security concerns,Continue Reading
Citing open source information, the German company FFG will have a stock of 100 Leopard 1A5 Main Battle Tanks (MBTs) that were in service with the Danish army. In 2010, FFG would have bought 100 Leopard 1A5 in Denmark to transform them and then resell them. Denmark ordered 120 German-madeContinue Reading
Nearly a year into the war in Ukraine, Western allies finally agreed to send Kyiv the battle tanks it says it so desperately needs. The first battalion will have roughly 40 tanks, including newer German Leopard 2A6s, and could arrive by spring. But the broader package pieced together this weekContinue Reading
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland signed a joint agreement to depend on security cooperation and establish a new platform that spans the four countries. Minister of Foreign Affairs Urmas Reinsalu (Isamaa) and his counterparts co-signed the document in Riga, Lavia on Tuesday. It “lays the foundation for a cooperation platformContinue Reading
Some protesters planned to burn a Koran at an anti-Nato demonstration held in Helsink last week, but then reconsidered after learning it would be against the law, according to city police. The Helsinki Police Department’s Chief Inspector, Heikki Porola, told Yle that the protest’s arrangers had notified the department aboutContinue Reading
The consumption of hard coal in Finland increased by 10 percent during 2022 compared to the previous year, according to preliminary data published on Wednesday by Statistics Finland. The increased usage was especially apparent in the production of electricity and heat, the number-crunching agency noted, although consumption of coal asContinue Reading