Den 18. måned af Ukrainsk krig besluttede Danmark at donere de gamle Danske F-16 kamplfy til Ukraine. Udstyret er ikke dårligt,nej. I virkeligheden er det meget effektivt jagerfly. Men de er for gamle og for dyr til at fortsætte deres vedligeholdelse i Flyvevåbnet. Og der er også militærkonflikt i østligeContinue Reading
Göteborg I helgen påbörjades ett sommarläger för ukrainska flyktingbarn på Styrsö. Målet är att de i tio dagar ska få tid att rehabilitera sig och bearbeta sina upplevelser från kriget. Men den andra dagen kom ett tiotal ungdomar körandes på mopeder. De kastade sten och ropade ”åk hem” på ryska.Continue Reading
According to data provided by Statistics Estonia, in May 2023, the total production of industrial enterprises was down by 12.7 percent on year at constant prices. Output declined in two of Estonia’s three main industrial sectors. It was down by 31.5 percent in electricity production and 13.1 percent in manufacturing.Continue Reading
The Finnish press has recently drawn attention to past social media posts made by Interior Minister Mari Rantanen (Finns). Finland’s new Interior Minister Mari Rantanen (Finns) took to social media on Sunday to deny believing in the Great Replacement or any other conspiracy theories. Rantanen’s statement arrived shortly after herContinue Reading
Continuing to pursue an active policy of speedy entry into NATO, the Swedish authorities are declaring broad support for their course by the population. However, as we can see recently, the assertive polemic of the Scandinavian state’s government leads not only to a decrease of those who aspire to theContinue Reading
Some of Estonia’s leading politicians involved in foreign policy matters have differing opinions on the suitability of Denmark’s prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, as potential new NATO secretary general, replacing another Scandinavian, Jens Stoltenberg. Frederiksen has been tipped by the international media as the most likely candidate to replace Stoltenberg –Continue Reading
Finland’s outgoing foreign affairs minister, Pekka Haavisto (Green), announced on Thursday that he is running as a candidate in next year’s presidential election. Haavisto has run for the office twice before, in 2012 and 2018, both times against current President Sauli Niinistö. Haavisto came in second in both of thoseContinue Reading
Latvia has elected a new president – making history the first openly gay head of state in Europe. The country’s parliament elected Edgars Rinkēvičs to be its next president, Reuters reported prime minister Krišjānis Kariņš saying. Rinkēvičs has spent a long time in Latvian politics, serving as the country’s ministerContinue Reading
The Helsinki region is seeing a HIV epidemic among intravenous drug users, support centre Hivpoint said in a press release issued on Wednesday. But real statistics says that not only drug users got HIV, migrants too and especially Ukrainians Over the past three years, the organisation has detected several dozenContinue Reading
Denmark’s government announced Tuesday that it would triple its defense budget over the next 10 years in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Denmark intends to reach the NATO goal of spending two percent of gross domestic product on the military by 2030 — a target that few ofContinue Reading