Tuesday
22nd Jan 2019
US tech giant Apple will open its first data centre outside the US in 2019 in a tiny Danish village. Cheap electricity, plus stable societies, are the two main reasons for global high-tech companies to locate in the Nordic region.
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Danish prosecutors have filed criminal charges against the country's top bank, but it remains to be seen if any individuals will face justice over mass-scale money laundering.
Europe's business alliance from the Middle Ages might work.
Chinese investment in sensitive industries, tensions with Russia and a recent Iranian-linked terror plot push security to the top of Nordic leaders' agenda in Oslo.
"We take a different path than the United States," UK prime minister May told Nordic Council ministers in Oslo - offering closer cooperation on the environment after Brexit.
Hard to comprehend why European automobile industry is pushing politicians into drastically speeding up transition away from the private car.
A survey of 12 EU states ranks Finland as the place where people of African descent experience the most abuse, followed by Luxembourg and Ireland.
Norway's conservative prime minister, Erna Solberg, has proposed tightening the country's abortion laws, in a political gambit that goes against Europe's liberal trend.
Environmentalists seek to tell bigger story of Arctic climate change, after studies show that the polar bear - the main symbol of the problem - does not risk extinction as previously feared.
Nordea bank, the Nordic region's largest lender, handled suspicious Russian money linked to the death of anti-corruption activist Sergei Magnitsky, according to a new complaint.
An exclusive analysis of over 100 million meteorological data points shows that every major city in Europe is warmer in the 21st century than it was in the 20th. Northern regions, Andalusia and southern Romania are most affected.
Denmark, the EU's cleanest country on paper, just got confirmation its top bank perpetrated Europe's biggest-ever money-laundering scandal.
Venta Maersk's voyage in the North East Passage is a message to Asian competitors, experts say, as climate change melts ice and eases sea traffic north of Russia.
Country of 51,000 would "go bankrupt tomorrow" if it joined EU sanctions on Russia and lost fish exports in return, Faroese foreign minister, Poul Michelsen, says.
Uncontrolled migration at a global level finds very little support. This is a reality which every European politician should heed.
Sweden heads for a hung parliament after Sunday's election, which saw support for the nationalist Sweden Democrats surge. With just 30,000 votes between the two blocs, votes cast abroad to be counted on Wednesday could still make the difference.
Swedish voters are consuming much more "junk news" than other Europeans ahead of their elections, a new study says.
The EU would "collapse" if parties like the far-right Sweden Democrats took power across Europe, Sweden's former leader, Carl Bildt, said in a TV duel six days ahead of elections.
Rosengard, a migrant district in Malmo, Sweden, has a reputation for gang warfare and social deprivation, but some young people there are pushing for change.
Swedes head to the polls in September in a national parliamentary election, while Bavarians vote in October in a state election. In both elections, voters' nativist sentiments may well help determine the outcome.
Sweden's first big party leader TV debate ahead of September elections was marked by the burning of dozen of cars in cities across the south-west of the country.
Drought is causing severe problems for farmers in the Nordic region and the Baltic countries. This is the third year in a row that the region has experienced extreme weather conditions, pushing farmers' financial situation to a breaking point.
Nordic countries are moving focus from saving energy to changing diets in order to achieve the UN's sustainable development goals.
Swedish nationalists have gambled on an in/out referendum to win votes in Europe's next big election, amid signs of new boldness in the far right.
The Baltic Sea is almost an inland European lake - it borders Norway, Denmark, Germany, Sweden, Poland, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Kaliningrad and Russia. It also has an EU strategy - and an action plan.
Norwegian MPs to vote on providing €29.5m in funding for a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project.
Donald Trump's isolationism is Europe's "new next opportunity," said Helle Thorning-Schmidt - while calling on EU leaders to find solutions to citizens concerns on migration.
Nord Stream 2 pipeline may well not comply with EU rules, but Sweden has no legal reason to say no to Russia, Stockholm said.
When UK premier Theresa May meets Norway's Erna Solberg in London on Wednesday, they my find that they have a lot in common, including managing difficult in-and-out relations to the European Union.
Finance ministers of the EU's three Nordic countries have urged partners to shelve plans to tax large corporations for their digital turnover. The digital economy should be taxed where value is created, they say.
Energy ministers from the world's biggest economies, including the G20, were shown how co-operation works in the Nordic electricity market. This co-operation is unique by international standards and is held up as a model globally.
