Tag: NATO

  • Ukrainian naval officers train at the Icelandic Coast Guard

    Ukrainian naval officers train at the Icelandic Coast Guard

    Iceland is responsible for training Ukrainian naval officers on board the Icelandic Coast Guard vessel. Officers received practical training in maritime research, surveillance and maritime operations such as search and rescue. This training is part of a NATO training project and the Icelandic Coast Guard is responsible for its implementation in cooperation with the defense…

  • Stubb is negotiating with the UN and NATO leaders about Ukraine and Gaza

    Stubb is negotiating with the UN and NATO leaders about Ukraine and Gaza

    The Finnish president, who took office two weeks ago, had a telephone conversation with Jens Stoltenberg and António Guterres.

  • NATO is establishing two technology testing centers in Finland

    NATO is establishing two technology testing centers in Finland

    The accelerator to be established in Espoo focuses on communication and quantum technologies and offers companies mentoring for defense business development. Minister of Defense Antti Häkkänen (NCP) estimates that the facilities increase awareness and create business opportunities for Finland within NATO. “Finland's leading position, especially in the development of new generation communication technologies and quantum…

  • Stay up to date with Ekot quarter to six

    Stay up to date with Ekot quarter to six

    Cyber-attacks are increasing and the Norwegian Agency for Community Protection and Emergency Preparedness wants greater investments in IT security. Two police officers in Stockholm are sentenced to prison for 1.5 and 2 years respectively for, among other things, gross misconduct and breach of confidentiality. The NATO countries have never before increased their investment in defense…

  • Stay up to date with Ekot quarter to five

    Stay up to date with Ekot quarter to five

    Cyber-attacks are increasing and the Norwegian Agency for Community Protection and Emergency Preparedness wants greater investments in IT security. Two police officers in Stockholm are sentenced to prison for 1.5 and 2 years respectively for, among other things, gross misconduct and breach of confidentiality. The NATO countries have never before increased their investment in defense…

  • Therefore, Ulf and Magdalena became best friends

    Therefore, Ulf and Magdalena became best friends

    Hear about Ulf Kristersson's best day at work ever, why Jimmie Åkesson was content to stay in the background when the Swedish flag was raised outside NATO's headquarters in Brussels, and maybe we'll come to terms with the occasional prejudice about various party sympathizers. Cast: Fredrik Furtenbach, Helena Gissén and Cecilia Khavar. Program manager: Paris…

  • Finland hosts NATO research centers

    Finland hosts NATO research centers

    NATO's North Atlantic defense innovation accelerator (Diana) has decided to establish two test centers and an accelerator in Espoo and Oulu.

  • Local hunter shoots raccoon in West Jutland

    Top stories in Denmark today: Local hunter shoots raccoon in West Jutland The date is set – Pusher Street will be dug up on April 6 Bornholmers flock to crisis preparation courses such as “What if?” campaign begins Local hunter shoots raccoon in West JutlandA local hunter shot a raccoon on Tuesday morning at Kildebjerg…

  • Denmark announces large defense budget increase

    Denmark announces large defense budget increase

    On Wednesday, the government will announce a new investment of DKK 40 billion in national defense to achieve its NATO goal. The spending will almost triple the duration of conscription, increase the total number of conscripts and strengthen the Army's 1st Brigade. The full version of this article is only available to subscribers. Already a…

  • NATO exercises cause congestion

    NATO exercises cause congestion

    According to the Defense Forces, the roads may be congested towards the end of the week.

  • Ulf Kristersson and Magdalena Andersson on NATO membership

    Ulf Kristersson and Magdalena Andersson on NATO membership

    Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (M) and Magdalena Andersson (S) hold a press conference about Sweden's NATO membership after the flag was raised on Monday. Ekot broadcasts directly.

  • Today the flag is being raised in Brussels – says Sweden's NATO ambassador before the ceremony

    Today the flag is being raised in Brussels – says Sweden's NATO ambassador before the ceremony

    Today, the Swedish flag is raised outside NATO's headquarters in Brussels. The ceremony begins at 12.00 and on site will be, among others, Crown Princess Viktoria together with Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, ÖB Micael Bydén, Defense Minister Pål Jonson and Foreign Minister Tobias Billström. Sweden's NATO ambassador in Brussels, Axel Wernhoff, is also present. Hear…

  • Defense Minister: Sweden joining NATO will strengthen Finland's defense

    Defense Minister: Sweden joining NATO will strengthen Finland's defense

    Finnish Defense Minister Antti Häkkänen visited the Nordic Response military exercise with his Swedish and Norwegian colleagues.

  • Charged moments in the NATO application and policy proposals on screen bans

    Charged moments in the NATO application and policy proposals on screen bans

    In this podcast you meet David Druid (appointed radio presenter of the year) and Katherine Zimmerman who were previously colleagues in Morgonpasset in P3. Here they meet again and talk about politics in their own way and little else. They also have Ekot's domestic political reporter with them Lova Olsson and the satirist Moa Wallin…

  • Get updated with Lunchecot

    Get updated with Lunchecot

    It has been a violent week with several explosions and murders linked to gang crime. On Thursday evening, a fatal shooting occurred in Bredäng in southern Stockholm. It cannot be ruled out that those who have done military service may be sent into battle at NATO's external border. Sweden's Minister of Defense Pål Jonson gave…

  • This is how Sweden contributes if a NATO country is attacked

    This is how Sweden contributes if a NATO country is attacked

    Sweden starts on Friday as a full member of NATO and with that has left over 200 years of non-alignment behind. Now Sweden has NATO's defense guarantees at the same time that the country must help other NATO countries if they are attacked. Has membership increased or decreased the risk of Sweden being drawn into…

  • LinkedIn, job search and nepotism in Denmark

    In my last column, I shared my very warm take on Danish culture – namely that it has an inclusivity problem. I would like to zoom in on a place where I think internationally this exclusion is acutely felt, especially because it is a place that the Danes value so much. I am of course…

  • Multicultural Districts and Schools: Building Immigrant Youth's Belonging

    Multicultural Districts and Schools: Building Immigrant Youth's Belonging

    and leave their parents' home later than their Finnish peers. Kilpi-Jakonen emphasizes the importance of supporting the cohesion and participation of young people in order to strengthen their social relations. Multiculturally diverse neighborhoods play a crucial role in this process. These areas, where the majority population does not dictate the norm, offer young immigrants a…

  • Stubb's first visit abroad as president to Norway for military exercises

    Stubb's first visit abroad as president to Norway for military exercises

    The traditional first visit of Finnish leaders is to Sweden, which may finally join NATO on Thursday.

  • Record deaths among immigrants in 2023

    Record deaths among immigrants in 2023

    Ugochi Daniels, IOM Deputy Director-General, reflected on the Missing Migrants Project's decades-long efforts and highlighted the profound human tragedy that each lost life represents. “As we commemorate ten years of the Missing Migrants Project, we mourn the loss of these individuals whose absence has a lasting impact on families and communities worldwide,” Daniels said. He…

  • FDF commander: NATO's national defense budget target falls short

    FDF commander: NATO's national defense budget target falls short

    General Timo Kivinen says that NATO's level of defense spending, two percent of the member countries' gross national product, is not enough for Europe's needs.

  • Finland joins the first NATO joint defense exercise

    Finland joins the first NATO joint defense exercise

    The exercise is Finland's first joint defense exercise as a member of NATO.

  • Update yourself with the latest news in Lunchekot

    Update yourself with the latest news in Lunchekot

    The Speaker of Hungary has signed the document and thus the parliament's decision to approve Sweden's NATO application. A man has been arrested and detained on suspicion of murder after a man in his 20s was shot dead in Skärholmen in southern Stockholm on Friday evening. There is a feverish search for detention and prison…

  • This is how NATO affects Sweden's civil preparedness

    This is how NATO affects Sweden's civil preparedness

    NATO makes demands on Sweden and seven civilian capabilities in particular have been identified there. MSB's NATO coordinator Emmelie Andersson tells us what the requirements mean and how we are in terms of planning. In the program as well Eva Hagström Frisellresearch leader for the Total Defense Research Institute, FOI. Preparedness with P4 Extras Erik…

  • Russia imprisons more and more – Gangster fashion for girls – The NATO debate that failed

    Russia imprisons more and more – Gangster fashion for girls – The NATO debate that failed

    Hour 1 *Russia imprisons more and more *The NATO debate that did not take place *Gangster fashion for girls *Chronicle Ulrika Knutson *The panel Hour 2 *Netanyahu's position in Israel and the desperation in Gaza *Satire with Public Service *Senegal's non-election *Actor Johan Rabeus as Oedipus in Sara Stridsberg's new play *Volvo's “Eagle's nest” becomes…

  • 516: Amanda Lind aims for the leadership position

    516: Amanda Lind aims for the leadership position

    Amanda Lind has announced that she is running for the new female spokesperson for the Green Party. Considering that Alice Bah Kuhnke has already refused, we wonder if the thing is therefore vegetarian steak. Hungary has become the last NATO country to ratify Sweden's accession protocol. Now a series of formalities await before Sweden formally…

  • Hungary's parliament approves Sweden's NATO bid

    Hungary's parliament approves Sweden's NATO bid

    © Provided by Xinhua The Hungarian parliament approved Sweden's NATO bid on Monday. Hungary was the last of the bloc's 31 members to lend its support. Sweden becomes the 32nd member of NATO. BUDAPEST, Feb. 26 (Xinhua) — Hungary's lawmakers on Monday approved a bill on Sweden's bid to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization…

  • NATO countries refuse to support Macron's troops in Ukraine's claims

    NATO countries refuse to support Macron's troops in Ukraine's claims

    There are no plans for Western boots on the ground, several leaders have insisted Britain, Poland, the Czech Republic, Finland and Sweden spoke out on Tuesday against French President Emmanuel Macron's proposal that Western troops could be deployed in Ukraine. Although there was no consensus on sending ground forces, Macron said on Monday after a…

  • Sweden joins NATO after Hungary finally accepts bid

    Sweden joins NATO after Hungary finally accepts bid

    London – Sweden will officially join NATO after Hungary finally gave its approval on Monday, the last member of the Western alliance to ratify the bid. Analysts say the addition of the Nordic nation to NATO as its 32nd member will add significant military resources to the Western alliance. Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said…

  • EU state threatens to neutralize the Russian region

    EU state threatens to neutralize the Russian region

    Kaliningrad will be the first to bear the consequences if Moscow ?dare to challenge NATO? That's what Lithuania's envoy to Sweden says Western countries will “neutralize” Russia's westernmost exclave of Kaliningrad if Moscow seriously endangers NATO's security, Lithuania's ambassador to Sweden Linas Linkevicius has said. Linkevicius, who previously served as Lithuania's defense and foreign minister,…

  • More than 100 members of the European Parliament demand continued funding for UNRWA amid the Gaza crisis

    More than 100 members of the European Parliament demand continued funding for UNRWA amid the Gaza crisis

    Finnish MEP Alviina AlametsäThe Greens representative has been a prominent signatory to a collective letter addressed to key figures in the European Union, including the presidents of the European Commission, the European Council and the European Parliament. The letter highlights the moral suspension of halting funding to UNRWA, an organization that acts as a lifeline…

  • Erdogan and Orbán won that by slowing down Sweden's path into NATO

    Erdogan and Orbán won that by slowing down Sweden's path into NATO

    Fighter jets, presidential elections and respect. Hear Johan Mathias Sommarströmformer Middle East correspondent, and Filip Kotsambouikidisformer Eastern Europe correspondent, about what motivated the two leaders to block Sweden's accession process for two years. Host: Robin Olin Guest: Johan Mathias Sommarström and Filip Kotsambouikidis Producers: Katja Magnusson, Kim Hessius, and Karl Kadhammar With audio clips from:…

  • Danish Prime Minister criticizes NATO: “Of course, Ukraine's aid counts as defense expenditure”

    Danish Prime Minister criticizes NATO: “Of course, Ukraine's aid counts as defense expenditure”

    NATO allies are expected to commit two percent of their GDP to defense spending. Denmark has historically undercut this, much to the dismay of the United States. Mette Frederiksen says that Denmark will now hit the target by including it in its military aid to Ukraine. The full version of this article is only available…