The Arctic Century

Brussels will help fund a Canadian molybdenum mine in East Greenland. The ore is bound for Europe's armor steel, not its stainless cookware.

Germany swapped Russian gas for Norwegian and rearmed against Moscow. Now the AfD polls near 30%, and every one of those bets looks fragile.

Karelian birch is worth its weight in gold and nearly impossible to grow on purpose. Why does the republic that named the wood earn nothing from it?

Swedish 15-year-olds lost a full year of reading ability in three years, and the rest of the Nordics fell with them. The minister blames screens.

France's Arctic commitment is real. But does Paris move only when Russia, NATO, or Greenland force it—and borrow the means to get there?

Brussels put 1.5 billion kroner on the table in Nuuk. But membership is still Greenland's call—and Trump and Beijing are bidding for the same island.

Finland's jobless rate hit 10.5 percent in July, the worst in the EU. The economy is growing again—so why are companies still not hiring?

Around 20 organized crime groups now operate in Iceland, half again as many as a decade ago, and in 2025 alone the police registered nearly 140 large-scale smuggling cases and found 36 potential victims of human trafficking. A Justice Ministry bill published on September 2 would redefine what counts as a crime group, double the maximum penalty to eight years, extend pre-trial detention to six months and let police search seized phones, confiscate unexplained assets and use facial recognition.