Finland: Nordea forecasts continued slow growth
Banking group Nordea released its Economic Outlook on Wednesday, forecasting continued slow growth worldwide. The bank sees poor growth and
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Sweden: Gotland & Öland could face severe water shortage
Record-low groundwater levels have been recorded on the islands of Öland and Gotland in southeastern Sweden and may lead to
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Finnish GDP up 0.5 percent in 2015
According to Statistics Finland, Finland’s gross domestic product in 2015 grew by 0.5 percent, not 0.4 percent as earlier reported
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Finland wants shorter call-up time for reservists
Finland’s Defence Minister Jussi Niinistö wants new legislation to shorten the call-up time for reservist training. Niinistö said Monday that
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Finnish, Swedish PMs plan closer defense cooperation
Finnish Prime Minister Juha Sipilä and Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven have penned a rare joint missive outlining their plans
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Controversy over street lighting in Finnish town
Municipalities in Finland have been turning off street lights at night in order to save money. In the town of
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Sweden to share more intel with Finland, NATO
Sweden will have more joint military exercises and share more intelligence with both Finland and the military alliance NATO, Defence
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Baltic Sea health shows improvement: researchers
The health of the highly-polluted Baltic Sea appears to be improving. Despite continuing periodic algae blooms and dead zones in
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Greenpeace activists divert Helsinki-bound coal ship
Early Sunday morning the environmental activist group Greenpeace managed to board and get a coal-carrying freighter on its way from
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Finns on fence about NATO
A new poll commissioned by the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle shows that 55 percent of Finns are opposed to NATO
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Experts question Finland’s energy decisions, data
Professors at the Lappeenranta University of Technology charge that Finland’s energy decisions are made based on misleading data. Officials at
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Blog: Reindeer, oil at Energy Summit
Across the vast tundra of northern Eurasia, nomadic indigenous peoples have herded reindeer for thousands of years. From the Sami in
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Russia brands Arctic indigenous organization as “foreign agent”
The Nenets organization Yasavey Manzara is the first indigenous peoples´ organization in the Barents Region to be declared “foreign agents”.
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Norway visa rules worry indigenous peoples
Andrey Vokuev in Naryan-Mar, Russia, fears for the cooperation between indigenous peoples. Next week, applicants from the Nenets tundra will
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Unemployment looms in Norway
After a decade with plenty of jobs, unemployment in Norway takes an upturn. Jobless figures remain low, but the trend
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