The fates of Sweden, Norway and Denmark during the Second World War were different. Sweden opted for neutrality, whereas Denmark and Norway fell victims to Nazi aggression. Each Scandinavian nation has its own historical memory of the events that took place in those years....
... the gift to their inheritors. On October 30 of last year, Norwegian ex-foreign minister Thorvald Stoltenberg, father of NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, addressed the 66th session of the Northern Council, which unites legislators of Denmark, Norway, Finland and Sweden, and proposed establishing a Nordic Defense and Security Commission. And in past decades, the eastern track has been Oslo’s biggest success.
Sweden has evaded conflict for 200 years and has been known for its demonstratively peaceful foreign ...
... countries’ peacekeeping battalion (
BALTBAT
), and the joint air space surveillance and control system (
BALTNET
), the joint Baltic naval squadron (
BALTRON
) and the Baltic countries’ defence college (
BALTDEFCOL
) in Tartu continue to operate. Sweden, Finland and Norway, together with Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and also Ireland, are part of the Nordic Battlegroup, which was created under the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy, and cooperate within it in fulfilling the “Petersberg tasks”....