Issues affecting circumpolar nations
Costs for the partly Russian-owned controversial plant will be €1 billion more than previously estimated. “Further deterioration of political and
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Russia no longer sees Finland as an influential EU country, so Moscow has less interest in routing strategic communications through
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The growth in travelers from Murmansk to northernmost Finland was more than twice the 2019-growth on the Russian-Norwegian border. For
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The US withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement made a new deal more difficult, according to the Environment Minister. UN
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Nearly half of all respondents to an Yle poll said they consider nuclear power to be a sustainable form of
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Switzerland has become the latest country to introduce a ban on the import of seal products, joining a similar ban
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On Friday, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon delivered a speech in an unlikely venue: the Arctic Circle conferencein Reykjavik, Iceland.
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Twenty years does not really seem like a long time. But when it comes to climate change in the Arctic, the
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Trust-building is the keyword, the Finnish President said after his meeting with Vladimir Putin. “There is clearly a certain fear
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The talks at Kultaranta demonstrated differences in opinion on the causes of the security threats and altered circumstances in the
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A crumbling European community is pleasing to Russia, says the chief of the Finnish Institute of International Affairs. She says
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Iceland will continue to follow the EU in its sanctions against Russia, the country’s new Foreign Minister Lilja Alfredsdottir says.
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After all the hype surrounding the Paris Climate Agreement in December, there is a real danger of anti-climax, of feeling
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President Sauli Niinistö has told Yle that there is no automatic link that would require Finland and Sweden to coordinate
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Today on Eye on the Arctic we bring you another instalment of our occasional series on how climate change, and
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