If Finland, Russia’s immediate neighbour, feels twitchy enough to think about joining NATO, that may ignite debate in Sweden. That could in turn foster closer co-operation among all five Nordic countries—though even full NATO members are not always good at this.
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Those are the 40-plus countries with the scientists, engineers and infrastructure for building bombs — and in at least one other case, that of South Africa, a history of having done so.
About a dozen are nuclear “rollback” states, ranging from Sweden and Switzerland, which seriously researched the weapon option in the 1950s and 1960s and [...]

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Swedish artist Lars Vilks is taking no chances: After murder threats following the publication of a caricature he drew of the Prophet Muhammad, the cartoonist has temporarily gone into hiding under police protection. more…

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In less than fifteen years Sweden has gone from having a national defence force to a security policy based on the assumption that territorial defence is no longer needed. Military resources are only deemed relevant as political markers in distant conflicts and Sweden’s territory has become nothing more than a training ground and a shipping [...]

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Tensions between Estonia and Russia are placing an added strain on relations between Europe and the Kremlin. The European Union has sharply criticized the Russians’ failure to protect diplomats after the Estonian and Swedish ambassadors came under attack in Moscow.
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As Finland and other Scandinavian nations become increasingly absorbed with defining their separate relationships with NATO, behind-the-scenes politics suggests Finland and Sweden are moving closer to joining neighbors Denmark and Norway as formal alliance members before 2012.
This closer relationship became apparent on April 15, when Finland and Sweden jointly announced that they are prepared to [...]

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STOCKHOLM/VILNIUS – Lithuania and Sweden said on Monday they wanted the planners of a Baltic Sea gas pipeline from Russia to Germany to look at alternative routes to address their concerns about the environment and security.
The five billion euro ($6.57 billion) pipeline, planned to run from Vyborg in Russia under the sea 1,200 km to [...]

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