The indigenous reindeer-herding Sami people in northern Sweden say they are facing an existential threat from an iron-ore mine billed as a pivotal shift towards the EU's green transition.
Coupled with mass tourism, the some 120 Sami people herding reindeer through the Gabna Sameby district in northern Sweden are seeing their thousand year-old traditions erode as the state-owned LKAB iron ore mine near the town of Kiruna continues to...
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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.