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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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  • Sunday, 13 April, 2025
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    Fortum is looking at gas importer’s Swedish assets as it seeks to benefit from growth in energy demand

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  • Friday, 11 April, 2025
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    Col Susannah Meyers accused of ‘subverting’ Donald Trump’s agenda

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  • Wednesday, 9 April, 2025
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  • Friday, 4 April, 2025
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    Swedish carmaker calls on ‘steady hand’ of former boss to revitalise its fortunes

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  • Thursday, 3 April, 2025
    News in-depthTrump tariffs
    Bling, bags and booze fall victim to Trump’s trade war

    US consumers are likely to be hit by the price rises across sectors from aviation to autos

    Montage featuring a Maersk shipping container, a Boeing plane, a Subaru car, a pill packet, Donald Trump, a bottle of Modelo beer and an Adidas trainer
  • Thursday, 3 April, 2025
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    Officials examine use of command and control systems and early warning aircraft

    crew boards a NATO Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft
  • Tuesday, 1 April, 2025
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    US and Denmark to hold first high-level talks since Trump win

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  • Monday, 31 March, 2025
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  • Monday, 31 March, 2025
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    Ulf Kristersson calls for EU capital markets union to put halt to exodus of homegrown companies

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  • Sunday, 30 March, 2025
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    Arctic island’s new PM responds to pressure from Trump administration as he prepares to meet Danish counterpart

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  • Sunday, 30 March, 2025
    Volvo Cars
    Volvo Cars brings back former boss to provide ‘steady hand’

    Håkan Samuelsson replaces Jim Rowan at Swedish carmaker after the share price fell 66% over three years

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  • Sunday, 30 March, 2025
    Norway's Oil Fund
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    Opposition leader vows to overturn rule barring $1.8tn fund from holding stakes in defence sector if her party wins election

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  • Friday, 28 March, 2025
    Greenland
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    U.S Vice President JD Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance arrive at the U.S. military’s Pituffik Space Base in Greenland
  • Thursday, 27 March, 2025
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    Putin warns of growing competition for Arctic supremacy

    Russian leader says he is open to co-operation in region as US vice-president heads to Greenland

    Russian President Vladimir Putin gives a speech at the International Arctic Forum
  • Thursday, 27 March, 2025
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    European companies rush to tap defence spending boom

    Industrial groups are converting production facilities or adapting existing technology for military use

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  • Wednesday, 26 March, 2025
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  • Wednesday, 26 March, 2025
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    Rise funded largely through borrowing will pay for biggest rearmament since cold war, says prime minister

    A Swedish air force Jas 39 Gripen E jet fighter
  • Tuesday, 25 March, 2025
    Greenland
    JD Vance to visit military base in Greenland to ‘check out security’

    Visit by US vice-president comes as Danish PM says Donald Trump is putting ‘unacceptable pressure’ on the island

    Two police officers walk along a street covered in snow in Nuuk, Greenland, on March 24 2025
  • Tuesday, 25 March, 2025
    Global InsightGreenland
    ‘More brutal than buying it’: bewilderment over Trump’s Greenland obsession turns to fear

    Nuuk and Copenhagen’s attempts to placate US president have given way to anger

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  • Sunday, 23 March, 2025
    Greenland
    Trump officials to take ‘private visit’ to US space base in Greenland

    National security adviser and second lady will travel to Arctic island coveted by US president

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  • Sunday, 23 March, 2025
    Saab AB
    Saab urges Nordic neighbours to use spy plane touting its ‘unique capability’

    Swedish defence contractor expected to benefit from European wariness of US military products

    Saab’s GlobalEye aircraft
  • Wednesday, 19 March, 2025
    War in Ukraine
    US could take over Ukrainian nuclear power plants, Trump tells Zelenskyy

    White House says deal would offer ‘the best protection’ for the country’s infrastructure

    Flames and thick smoke engulf a building in Krasnopillia, Sumy region, Ukraine on March 19 2025. The structure is heavily damaged, with fire visible through the windows and debris scattered in the foreground.
  • Wednesday, 19 March, 2025
    Driverless vehicles
    Swedish driverless truck start-up Einride in talks with banks for US IPO

    Company targets $5bn valuation as road freight becomes next self-driving tech battleground

    A white autonomous truck by Einride is driving on a paved road
  • Tuesday, 18 March, 2025
    Nato
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    Nato members say they need to defend ‘vulnerable eastern flank’ with Russia and Belarus

    A landmine prop lies by a path as the German armed forces’ combat engineers advance during a Nato exercise in Pabradė, Lithuania
  • Monday, 17 March, 2025
    Lithuania
    Russia behind Ikea arson attack in Lithuania, prosecutors say

    Country’s chief prosecutor links Russian intelligence to Vilnius fire and at least one suspect to other sabotage incidents

    An Ikea store in Vilnius, Lithuania
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