Finland offers support with immigrants crossing the Mediterranean
Finland is preparing to deploy 20 specialists, patrol boats and a surveillance aircraft to help detect the increasing number of illegal immigrants att...
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Hetero Pride organiser pictured giving Nazi salute
Finns Party councilor Jani Viinikainen has been caught on camera giving a Nazi salute at last weekend’s Hetero Pride demonstration in the Finnish capi...
Icelandic and Russian presidents to meet at Arctic forum
Icelandic President ólafur Ragnar Grímsson is set to meet Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin later this week at the The Arctic – Territory of Dialogue...
Iceland moves further away from joining EU
Icelandic Foreign Minister Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson announced last Thursday that the North Atlantic nation had suspended European Union accession discus...
Syria crisis: Sweden to offer all refugees residency
Swedish migration authorities have stated that all Syrian asylum seekers currently in the country will be offered permanent residency due to the worse...
Erna Solberg to be Norwegian prime minister
Norwegian Conservative Party leader Erna Solberg will form a new government following Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg’s acknowledgement that he had be...
Danish government issues warning to Russia about gay propaganda law
The Danish government has warned Russia it will bring the issue up of the country’s recently-passed gay propaganda law at the European Council. Denmar...
Iceland and Faroese complain about EU fish sanction threats
Iceland’s Prime Minister Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson has claimed the European Union’s ongoing campaign of threats is against international fish quota...