A contingent of over 200 Danish military personnel arrived at Ämari air base on Friday, ready to contribute to the NATO Enhanced Forward Presence (eFP) Battlegroup based at Tapa. Around 150 soldiers from the Jutland Dragoon Regiment’s (Jydske Dragonregiment) Viking Company, a heavy infantry unit, are to serve with theContinue Reading
According to the economic affairs minister, Finns must brace themselves for wartime pricing. People in Finland must be prepared for wartime pricing of products and services, Minister of Economic Affairs Mika Lintilä (Cen) said in an Yle interview on Saturday. He warned that the price tag for a standard basketContinue Reading
Natural gas supplies do not constitute a weak point for Lithuania but the country’s dependence on Russian electricity is a major problem, which is why it is necessary to synchronize the country’s electricity grids with those of the West as soon as possible, Lithuania’s European Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevicius has said.Continue Reading
Det er helt grunnleggende for norske interesser å ta vare på fiskerisamarbeidet med Russland, mener fiskeriminister Bjørnar Skjæran. – Det er ikke aktuelt å stenge russiske fiskefartøy ute av norsk økonomisk sone. Det skriver fiskeri- og havminister Bjørnar Skjæran i en e-post til NRK. Storbritannia har stengt havnene for russiskeContinue Reading
Temperatures had dropped significantly ahead of Minister of Trade and Industry Jan Christian Vestre’s visit to the border town of Kirkenes. As he met with journalists in front of the local ship repair yard, the minister shivered with cold. Vestre has reason to feel the chill. Only few kilometres eastContinue Reading
Mette Frederiksen apologises in person to six surviving Greenlandic Inuits who were snatched from families as children more than 70 years ago Denmark’s prime minister has apologised in person to a group of Greenlandic Inuits who were removed from their families and taken to Copenhagen more than 70 years agoContinue Reading
Norwegian waste that is to be burned in Kiruna, Sweden has been transported with vans for more than 20 years. Now, the waste will be transported via the railway line from Narvik during the final years before LKAB’s waste heat is to replace waste burning as heat source, according toContinue Reading
More than 30,000 western troops will take part in one of Nato’s biggest military exercises since the end of the cold war amid rising tensions in Europe as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. For a month from Thursday, troops from 27 countries including the US, UK, Germany andContinue Reading
Prime Minister Sanna Marin did not want to say on Saturday whether Finland and Sweden were seeking special non-Nato partner status with the United States. Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin (SDP) and her Swedish counterpart, Magdalena Andersson, on Saturday said their countries were deepening cooperation in the wake of Russia’sContinue Reading
US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley stated on Sunday that more US troops would arrive in Lithuania. According to the general, they would be taken from a US brigade of approximately 3,500 troops stationed on NATO’s eastern flank. Additional troops will be deployed as RussiaContinue Reading