Police stand by as a protestor prepares to desecrate a copy of the Qur'an in Stockholm.
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The legal context behind a political controversy.
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The NATO summit in Vilnius has kicked the prospects of Ukraine’s membership into the long grass. Kyiv, however, has other security tricks up its sleeve.
Presidents Biden and Zelenskyy take to the stage.
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As Western leaders depart a crucial summit, a NATO scholar parses what went down.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan with the Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg and Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson.
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All Nordic states are now members of the military alliance, bolstering key border regions with Russia.
A flagging alliance? Far from it.
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Leaders of the Western military alliance meet in Lithuania with the ongoing war in Ukraine as a backdrop.
Nato secretary general Jens Stoltenberg wants to retire, but may find himself asked to serve another term.
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Nato leaders meet in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius next week - it won’t be plain sailing.
Public acceptance of killing urban wild animals varies.
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Here’s what determines if a problematic wild animal is saveable or cullable.
Finnish military personnel raise their country’s flag at NATO headquarters in Brussels.
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A historian looks at the steps leading up to Finland joining the Western strategic alliance – and what that means for small nations elsewhere.
Welcome to the club: Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg, right, with Finland’s president, Sauli Niinisto.
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Finland has gone from neutral to Nato member in 30 years and Sweden could be set to follow.
Several European countries including Norway, Finland and Germany run successful plastic bottle deposit return schemes.
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Evidence suggests that Scotland’s bottle deposit scheme would prevent huge amounts of litter from entering the environment.
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I was in a region in southern Sweden’s Northland in September 2021 to find out more about a group of people who were staunchly against COVID-19 vaccinations.
More people moved into Scandinavia in Viking times than at any other time period analysed in the study.
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DNA analysis reveals a large migration of people into Scandinavia during Viking times.
A Turkish barbers’ shop in Berlin, where there’s a large Turkish community.
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Four-fifths of the first-generation Turkish men who came to Europe as guest-workers and ended up settling there lived below an income poverty line.
Far-right political parties, often Eurosceptic, have long been at work building their influence in Brussels. On June 12, 2019, Italy’s Lega and France’s Rassemblement National announced that they would form the Identity and Democracy (ID) group within the European Parliament. At a press conference the next day, Marco Zanni of Lega (L) shakes hands with the RN’s Marine Le Pen.
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How political parties such as Fidesz, Brothers of Italy, and the National Rally form part of the European Parliament.
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Sweden is considering a deal to send foreign prisoners to jails in other countries – but is this just a way of getting rid of unwanted foreign criminals?
Ulf Kristersson will be prime minister, but with a tiny majority he will be heavily dependent on the nationalist right in government.
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The Sweden Democrats are likely to influence decisions in key areas in the wake of a dramatically close election result.
Sweden Democrats Jimmie Akesson celebrates on election night.
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The Sweden Democrats have become the second largest party nationally, making it harder to argue against including them in government.
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The decision is understandable, but it’s not without costs, both for Sweden and the wider world, especially in the longer term.
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Although Sweden was hit hard by the first wave, its total excess deaths during the first two years of the pandemic was among the lowest in Europe.
Finland and Sweden joined 14 NATO allies in a June 6, 2022, military exercise on the Baltic Sea.
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Sandwiched between Russia and NATO ally Norway, both Sweden and Finland have maintained neutrality in global conflicts. That changed in February 2022, when Russia invaded Ukraine.