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Richard Milne

Nordic and Baltic Bureau Chief

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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  • Wednesday, 2 July, 2025
    Business InsightGlobal trade
    Market squalls threaten to throw container shipping off course

    How does an industry that built and benefited from globalisation survive when its main cheerleader turns on it?

    A container ship arrives at Lianyungang port
  • Tuesday, 1 July, 2025
    Visual story
    Is Europe ready for war?

    With US support for transatlantic security faltering, Nato nations are fortifying the eastern frontier with Russia

  • Saturday, 28 June, 2025
    Arctic
    Finland optimistic of building icebreakers for US

    Helsinki eyes breakthrough after President Donald Trump makes Arctic security a priority

    Icebreaker vessels moored in the South Harbour at the port of Helsinki
  • Thursday, 26 June, 2025
    News in-depthEuropean companies
    Europe’s green steel ambitions falter as energy costs take toll

    Industry leaders warn climate targets are at risk without more state support and protection from cheaper imports

    A montage of a worker at a steel plant and a bar chart
  • Monday, 23 June, 2025
    Europe Express
    End Nato secrecy to convince voters on defence spending, says Lithuania Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: How the Iran crisis affects Europe

    Nato secretary-general Mark Rutte
  • Thursday, 19 June, 2025
    Swiss National Bank
    Swiss central bank cuts rates to zero

    Surge in value of Swiss franc amid US-driven trade war and lagging inflation has complicated policymaking

    View of the headquarters of the Swiss National Bank
  • Thursday, 19 June, 2025
    Business InsightIndustrials
    Test for Europe as it tackles a crisis of confidence in green projects

    The green steel plant of Sweden’s Stegra is being held back over delays in state aid

    The construction site of Stegra’s green-steel plant
  • Tuesday, 17 June, 2025
    Climate change
    Norway launches full-scale industrial carbon capture project with billions in subsidies

    CO₂ shipped to North Sea to be injected into reservoirs of oil majors

    CO₂ receiving terminal
  • Wednesday, 11 June, 2025
    Scania AB
    Scania in talks to form consortium to buy Northvolt’s R&D lab

    Swedish truck group wants to retain critical battery expertise in Europe

    A worker operates a machine at Northvolt’s R&D centre
  • Monday, 9 June, 2025
    EU financial regulation
    Norway’s oil fund calls for urgent reform of European capital markets

    World’s largest sovereign wealth fund says ambitious action needed to improve competitiveness

    A Norwegian flag hangs from the back of a boat, with a view of a gas platform near Stord, Norway in the distance
  • Wednesday, 4 June, 2025
    Business InsightEU defence
    Europe has to back its new defence start-ups

    Cheaper and quicker-to-produce weapons are needed to deter Russia and other threats

    A Ukrainian soldier with a drone and remote controller during training
  • Tuesday, 27 May, 2025
    Greenland
    Greenland says it will turn to China if US and EU shun its mining sector

    Business minister suggests Arctic territory may look elsewhere for help exploiting minerals

    Naaja Nathanielsen, Greenland’s business and mineral resources minister
  • Monday, 26 May, 2025
    News in-depthNovo Nordisk AS
    Novo Nordisk’s hunt for boss with Danish values — and US commercial nous

    Jørgensen’s ousting unusual for group where CEOs have had smooth transitions after long tenures

    Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen
  • Thursday, 22 May, 2025
    EU defence
    Germany’s Merz pledges to defend ‘every inch’ of Nato territory

    Lithuania hails ‘historic’ inauguration of German military brigade on its soil

    Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda, left, with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, review the  honour guards in Vilnius, Lithuania
  • Thursday, 22 May, 2025
    Special ReportEurope’s Climate Leaders
    Northvolt failure raises stakes for Europe’s battery industry

    Swedish start-up’s fate raises fears its European peers will also perish in the ‘valley of death’

    Large industrial factory with lit exterior reflected in a still body of water under a cloudy evening sky
  • Thursday, 22 May, 2025
    Business InsightHelge Lund
    Pressure is mounting on Lund at BP and Novo Nordisk

    The Norwegian has become a lightning rod for shareholder criticism as chair of both companies

    Helge Lund
  • Tuesday, 20 May, 2025
    Wind power
    ​Equinor to resume $5bn Empire Wind project after Trump administration reversal

    US interior secretary had ordered a halt to activities last month on development off the coast of New York

    An aerial view of the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal shows the site under development, with various construction equipment and materials spread across the area
  • Sunday, 18 May, 2025
    FT SeriesPowering Britain
    Can Britain’s neighbours help it keep the lights on?

    Greater interconnection should boost system’s resilience but also exposes electricity to political tensions

    Map of UK and Ireland
  • Wednesday, 14 May, 2025
    Nuclear energy
    Denmark looks at lifting 40-year ban on nuclear power

    Copenhagen will examine pros and cons of using small modular reactors to balance renewables in its energy mix

    A view of turbines at Orsted’s offshore wind farm near Nysted, Denmark
  • Friday, 9 May, 2025
    Sweden
    Sweden’s national security adviser resigns after hours on the job

    Resignation is embarrassing for Sweden’s attempt to boost strategic profile

    Tobias Thyberg
  • Thursday, 8 May, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    Maersk boss says upending global trade with tariffs could take decades

    Vincent Clerc says changing supply chains fast using trade war is ‘very unrealistic’

    Maersk cargo ships are pictured at the Lazaro Cardenas Cargo Port
  • Thursday, 8 May, 2025
    Energy sector
    TikTok vs defence: Europe faces a reckoning over the allocation of energy

    Competition for electricity is growing rapidly as conflicts in Scandinavia show

    Silje Karine Muotka, president of the Sami Parliament, gives a speech in front of activists protesting against wind turbines built on land traditionally used to herd reindeer
  • Wednesday, 7 May, 2025
    Denmark
    Denmark summons US ambassador over Greenland espionage report

    Incident is latest spat between Nato allies since Donald Trump outlined ambitions to take over Arctic island

    Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen
  • Wednesday, 7 May, 2025
    Pandora AS
    Pandora to shift supply chains to mitigate tariffs, says CEO

    Danish jeweller is accelerating plans to send goods directly to Canada and Latin America

    A person holding an umbrella walks past the storefront of a Pandora jewellery shop
  • Thursday, 1 May, 2025
    Norway's Oil Fund
    Norway’s oil fund targets $400mn trading cost savings using AI

    One of the world’s biggest equity investors makes 46mn trades a year

    Nicolai Tangen, chief executive
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