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    Richard Milne

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    Richard Milne covers Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden for the FT. He was previously capital markets editor, European business correspondent, Frankfurt and Paris correspondents at the FT. He started as a graduate trainee in 2003. He won the business and finance journalist of the year in 2015 at the Press Awards for his coverage of Volkswagen's dieselgate scandal.
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    • Sunday, 1 October, 2023
      Nato
      Turkey calls on Sweden to take more ‘concrete measures’ before joining Nato

      Ankara seeks further action against extremists as parliament reconvenes to consider accession request

      Cevdet Yılmaz
    • Friday, 29 September, 2023
      Sweden
      Sweden turns to military to help police combat gang crime

      Spate of killings blamed on drugs trade leads prime minister to consider calling on armed forces

      Ulf Kristersson, Swedish prime minister
    • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
      Northvolt AB
      Northvolt to build battery gigafactory in Canada

      Swedish start-up to tap generous subsidies for its first such plant outside Europe

    • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
      News in-depthDenmark
      Obesity drugmaker’s expansion raises dominance worries for Denmark

      Soaring sales for Novo Nordisk’s products mean market capitalisation now exceeds country’s GDP

      An Ozempic injection pen
    • Monday, 25 September, 2023
      Lego
      Lego ditches oil-free brick in sustainability setback

      World’s biggest toymaker says new material made from recycled bottles would have bigger carbon footprint

      Jumbled Lego bricks
    • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
      Adidas AG
      Kanye West did not mean antisemitic remarks, Adidas CEO claims

      Bjørn Gulden tells podcast that it was ‘unfortunate’ that scandal over controversial rapper ended brand partnership

      Adidas chief executive Bjørn Gulden
    • Monday, 18 September, 2023
      Nato
      Hungary raises fresh objections to Sweden’s Nato bid

      Budapest aligns with Ankara on delaying ratification of Stockholm’s membership of military alliance

      Viktor Orbán, said that Hungary and Sweden did not see eye to eye on issues of patriotism
    • Friday, 15 September, 2023
      Norway
      Conflicts of interest rattle Norway’s political class

      Former PM says she should have recused herself from areas where her husband traded in stocks

    • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
      AP Møller-Maersk AS
      Maersk forms green methanol start-up in decarbonisation push

      Container shipping group prepares to welcome its first vessel powered by the alternative fuel

      A man holding a laptop computer in a field
    • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
      Greenland
      Cruise ship may be stranded in Arctic for days after running aground

      Vessel stuck off remote area of Greenland with more than 200 people on board

      A view from the air of the blue and white coloured Ocean Explorer
    • Monday, 11 September, 2023
      Sweden
      Sweden to boost defence spending next year by almost 30%

      Stockholm rapidly increases budget to meet Nato’s 2% of GDP target

      Sweden’s defence minister Pål Jonson, pictured in June
    • Friday, 8 September, 2023
      AB Volvo
      Volvo Trucks’ Russian assets transferred to local investor

      Swedish company latest group to exit country following its invasion of Ukraine

      Picture shows the Volvo Trucks plant outside Kaluga in Russia
    • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
      Inside BusinessArtificial intelligence
      Norway’s oil fund is sending a message to companies on AI

      Head of sovereign investor warns boards are ‘absolutely not on top’ of the issues surrounding the technology

      Nicolai Tangen
    • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
      Industrial metals
      Al Gore-backed Swedish green steel start-up examining overseas moves after fundraising

      GIC and Temasek among those investing in H2 Green Steel

      A rendering of the H2 Green Steel plant to be built in Boden, Sweden
    • Tuesday, 5 September, 2023
      FT Globetrotter
      Cycling culture: a two-wheeled art tour from Copenhagen

      A bike route that heads out of the Danish capital to take in leading museums, via sea-swimming, deer-spotting and modernist landmarks 

      A male cyclist riding on a bike path along a sea wall near the Louisiana modern art museum
    • Thursday, 31 August, 2023
      Klarna AB
      Klarna ready for IPO when conditions improve, says chief

      Swedish ‘buy now, pay later’ pioneer posts profitable month for first time in three years

      A Klarna logo on a laptop and a mobile phone
    • Wednesday, 30 August, 2023
      Lego
      Lego suffers steepest fall in profits in almost two decades

      Danish toy group’s sales stagnate after pandemic growth spurt

      A detail from a Lego replica of St Pancras railway station in London
    • Friday, 25 August, 2023
      Denmark
      Denmark seeks to jail people who burn the Koran for up to 2 years

      Proposal likely to be deeply controversial in country with long tradition of protecting free speech

      Far-right politician Rasmus Paludan holds up a Koran as he speaks in front of a mosque in Copenhagen on January 27 2023
    • Friday, 25 August, 2023
      Aerospace & Defence
      Boom in the woods: inside a munitions group’s fight to boost production

      Nammo’s challenges have included a battle with a TikTok data centre over available electricity

      An artillery demonstration
    • Thursday, 24 August, 2023
      Lazard Ltd
      Lazard chair in Sweden charged with aggravated bribery

      Case relates to 2015 acquisition of Swiss vacuum business by Atlas Copco

      The skyline of Stockholm, Sweden
    • Thursday, 24 August, 2023
      Estonia
      Estonian PM Kallas urged to clarify husband’s Russian business ties

      Opposition politicians seek resignation of Baltic leader, who had called on EU companies to refrain from trade with Moscow

      Estonia’s PM Kaja Kallas, pictured with her husband Arvo Hallik in Tallinn in May
    • Tuesday, 22 August, 2023
      Batteries
      Northvolt secures investment from BlackRock

      Swedish battery start-up raises €1.2bn in convertible bonds as it prepares gigafactory expansion

      Employees work at a Northvolt facility in Sweden
    • Sunday, 20 August, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Netherlands and Denmark confirm plans to provide Kyiv with first F-16s

      Lengthy pilot training process means fighter jets are unlikely to arrive in time to bolster summer counteroffensive

    • Friday, 18 August, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      US approves Denmark and Netherlands sending F-16 jets to Ukraine

      Granting of requests marks first step in significant upgrade of Kyiv’s military capabilities

      Two F-16 fighter jets in flight
    • Wednesday, 16 August, 2023
      InterviewNorway's Oil Fund
      Norway oil fund chief attacks UK backlash against green measures

      Chief executive Nicolai Tangen says climate change is an increasing financial risk and should not be a matter of politics

      Nicolai Tangen
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