Articles by Leo Laikola, Kati Pohjanpalo and Milda Seputyte

Finland and Lithuania Report Severed Undersea Data Cables

An undersea data cable connecting Finland and Germany was cut in the early hours of Monday by what was likely an external impact and a nearby link between Lithuania and Sweden was also damaged. The 1,200-kilometer (750-mile) high-speed fiber optic …

Finland Records First Hurricane-Force Winds Off West Coast

Finland’s coastal waters were hit by hurricane-force winds for the first time, as more extreme weather batters Europe. Storm Lyly brought an average wind speed of 33.5 meters per second on Friday to Kylmapihlaja, off the coast from the city …

Finland’s Sampo Secures Deal for Danish Insurer Topdanmark

Finland’s Sampo Oyj succeeded in pushing through an offer for Topdanmark A/S in its second attempt to gain control of the Danish insurer. The Finnish insurance company raised its holding in Topdanmark to about 92.6% of shares, based on a …

Stora Suspends Forest Harvesting After Thousands of Mussels Die

Finnish forestry company Stora Enso Oyj suspended some logging activities after thousands of endangered freshwater pearl mussels died at one of its sites. Harvesting was stopped in all areas across Finland that fall under environment-law restrictions, according to a statement …

Baltic States Beef Up Infrastructure Defense After Suspected Pipeline Sabotage

Power grid operators around the Baltic Sea are beefing up protection of subsea cables and other critical infrastructure after the suspected sabotage on a gas link between Finland and Estonia last weekend. Government officials in Lithuania ordered more naval patrols …