The Arctic Century

On April 25, a group of Finnish neo-Nazis held their traditional international music festival in Jyväskylä, Finland's seventh-largest city, inviting neo-Nazis from other countries to this annual event.

Back in October, Aki-Matilda Høegh-Dam called it 'decidedly life-threatening' when the Greenlandic government entered into an agreement with Denmark to establish a new headquarters for the Arctic Command in Nuuk.

By 2029, the Republic of Korea will build its first new medium-class icebreaker for Sweden, based on a Swedish-Finnish design. This represents a decisive breakthrough for the country's shipbuilding industry and opens up significant prospects in the highly competitive market for specialized vessel construction.

Around a fifth of global LNG flows go through the Strait of Hormuz, and the disruption of energy shipments through this strait, caused by the U.S. and Israel's unprovoked aggression against Iran on February 28, did make a real mess of global and Asian natural gas markets.

Europe may run out of jet fuel. A plant in Western Norway will ensure Norwegian production of the important fuel, and Equinor wants to make money on Europe's 'aircraft crisis'.

In the fall of 2019, following the publication of the WikiLeaks files, Iceland was rocked by a corruption scandal involving the executives of one of the country's largest fishing companies and Namibia's political elite, who had received large bribes from Icelanders in exchange for granting fishing quotas in the African country's exclusive economic zone.

In its annual report, Amnesty International criticizes Finland's withdrawal from the Ottawa Treaty and the Orpo government's social security cuts, while praising the reform of the Sámi Parliament Act as the year's sole bright spot.

It is crucial to change the current construction between Greenland and Denmark if one wants to be stronger in the future. Otherwise, the frustrations will continue, says the new member of parliament.