FinlandPresident Sauli Niinistö travels to the military alliance headquarters in Brussels to attend the official ceremony.
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Record number of people think Sweden is going in the wrong direction
SwedenOver the past ten years, development has never before been considered to be as bad as it is now, according to a new survey.
Sanna Marin’s Social Democrats lost the election in Finland
FinlandThe centre-right National Coalition Party and the national populist The Finns are now the two largest parties after the parliamentary elections in Finland.
Shootings or explosions every other day since Christmas in Sweden’s capital city
SwedenStockholm police say they have also seized 102 firearms, 9 hand grenades, 33 kilos of dynamite and 54 detonators.
National population census to be conducted – first in 33 years: “Out of control”
SwedenIn recent decades, the country has experienced a large influx of migrants from the third world combined with poor border control.
More than a third of the population in Sweden now of foreign background
SwedenIn municipalities such as Botkyrka and Södertälje, people with a migrant background are already in a clear majority.
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Iceland tightens asylum policy after mass migration wave
IcelandRejected asylum seekers will lose their social and economic benefits.
Digitalisation excludes elderly people
Sweden"In Sweden, bank ID is a clear example", says researcher Sofia Alexopoulou at Örebro University, who compared the situation for older people in Sweden and Greece.
Sweden’s state-owned energy company Vattenfall continues mini-reactor feasibility study
SwedenThe idea is that the first reactor will be ready as early as 2030.
World’s oldest inscription mentioning Odin found in Denmark
Denmark"This type of inscription is extremely rare", says linguist Krister Vasshus.
Swedish Women’s Organizations: Choosing of legal gender threatens women’s rights
SwedenPoint out that the number of young girls with gender dysphoria has skyrocketed and that "nobody knows" whether girls are actually "helped by being able to easily change their legal gender".
Support for the Swedish government plummets
SwedenOnly one in three Swedes feels "very" or "fairly" confident in Ulf Kristersson's government.
Arms smuggling expert: “Afraid Europe will follow in Sweden’s footsteps”
SwedenGun smuggling expert Nils Duquet expresses concern that gun violence in Sweden is a trend that the rest of Europe will follow.
Finnish military officer: “Wishful thinking that Ukraine will win the war”
FinlandArgues that Ukraine's military leadership is "very poor" and that the Western image of the war is based on Ukrainian propaganda.
PKK supporter gets Swedish Left Party’s heaviest parliamentary post
SwedenMalcolm Momadou Jallow attracted attention when he posed with a PKK flag in Almedalen - now he gets the Left Party's only chairmanship.
Swedish security police concerned about “anti-state messages” among citizens
SwedenHigh tone in the agency's annual situation report - expressing strong concern about faltering trust in society's institutions.
Swedish Security Service: ‘Significant’ PKK funding ongoing in Sweden
SwedenThe terror-classified PKK group is successfully recruiting and financing terrorists from Swedish soil, according to a recent statement.
A quarter of the Swedish population not self-sufficient
SwedenA quarter of the working-age population cannot be considered self-sufficient, according to a new report from Svenskt Näringsliv.
Municipalities: Children hungrier at school
SwedenMunicipalities report that pupils are eating more during school lunches and that more children are going hungry at home in Sweden.
Women’s organizations: Don’t exclude “mother” from the parental code
Sweden"Excluding a majority by including a minority is not inclusive," several organizations say of the government's investigation.
German investigation: No evidence of Russian sabotage of Nord Stream pipelines
DenmarkThe investigation dismisses the conspiracy theory that Russia blew up its own gas pipeline.
Award-winning journalist: US and Norway behind blowing up Nord Stream
NorwayThe explosive devices were installed during the NATO exercise Baltops in June and later detonated on direct orders from the US, according to the grave reports.
Greta Thunberg nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize – for the fifth time
NorwayThe 20-year-old climate alarmist is nominated by a Norwegian politician for the Green Party.
Increased obesity in young children during the covid lockdowns
SwedenLow-resource children in "socio-economically disadvantaged areas" were hit the hardest by the covid lockdowns.
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