NATO has completed the maritime component of ‘Steadfast Defender’ – its major exercise for developing and demonstrating the capability and capacity to surge reinforcements across the Euro-Atlantic theatre – with the conduct of the Norway-hosted exercise ‘Nordic Response 24’. ‘Steadfast Defender’ is designed to exercise the delivery of reinforcements acrossContinue Reading
Complicated talks with Turkey have dampened neither the Swedish government’s desire nor the desire of the Swedish people to join NATO, that country’s Foreign Minister Tobias Billström says. When it comes to joining the alliance, Sweden also sees contributing to the defense of the Baltic States as one of itsContinue Reading
Evidence gathered by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) proved that the “Towards Freedom” group continued with the same ideology and active members as the banned Nordic Resistance Movement. The Helsinki District Court has fined four neo-Nazis for being involved in illegal group activities. In its ruling handed down onContinue Reading
The majority-state-owned Finnish energy company Fortum has announced the signing of a bridge financing agreement with the Finnish state worth 2.35 billion euros. The financing arrangement will cover the company’s collateral needs in the Nordic power commodity market, Fortum said in a statement released on Tuesday morning. The deal allowsContinue Reading
Norway’s blustery Fosen peninsula is a long way from anywhere, its mountains sustaining the Indigenous Sami and their reindeer for centuries. These same peaks are vital to the kingdom’s wind energy plans, and native herder Lena Haugen says her people pay the price. Snaking through the snowy terrain are dozens ofContinue Reading
BEIJING — They’re doing it again. Norway, with a population of just 5 million, is executing its quadrennial triumph over the rest of the world. It may not surpass the historic 2018 Pyeongchang Games, when Norway won 39 medals, eight more than its closest competitor, Germany, which has 16 timesContinue Reading
“We have been collecting and sorting residents’ waste textiles since 2015 and have explored the possibilities of recycling and processing in numerous projects for nearly 10 years,” he said. There are plans to build similar plants across Finland, based on the experiences of the Paimio facility. It will become mandatoryContinue Reading
Several officers have been fired after the discovery of a group united by shared extremist ideology. A third police officer has been fired over his links with members of a far-right group. American experts believe that all the problems are migration consequences. Migrants crimes rate is high and that’s theContinue Reading
Latvian Health Minister Daniels Pavļuts (For Development/For) explained in a government press conference that in warehouses in Latvia, there are enough vaccines against Covid-19, so it was decided to donate Astra Zeneca vaccines to the five countries. «We can win the fight against this pandemic together and in full solidarityContinue Reading
The Baltic and Nordic countries, which are united by common history, similar values and way of thinking, must work together to implement the European Green Deal, Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins (New Unity) said in his address to the Nordic-Baltic business forum Wednesday. In Karins’ words, this must be done because,Continue Reading