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Can We Trust the US?
Dear reader. Should Northern Norway host the next Olympic Games? And can we really trust the Nordic base policy? The cod fisheries also bring about some gloomy news. Read about all this and more in this week's newsletter.
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The question of whether Norway should host the Winter Olympics has become a hot topic following Norway's successes at the Olympic Games in Italy. A new survey that High North News has gained insight into shows that Northerners are the most skeptical of a Norwegian Olympic bid. Unless the conditions are right.
For fishery-dependent communities in the North, a weak cod season could have major consequences.
"This is a crisis," says Chairman Geir Børre Johansen of Røst sjømat and Glea AS. (Norwegian only)
The war in Iran continues to create ripple effects in the Arctic, including for the exports of Europe's largest iron ore producer.
Research news
A new study has created the first large-scale method to predict where kelp forests could be growing along Arctic coasts.
And Swedish researchers believe research and tourism on Svalbard to be closely interconnected and two sides of the same coin.
Security
The military exercise Cold Response has concluded.
"Our armed forces are ready to operate in extreme conditions, and Cold Response is taking that readiness even further," said NATO's Secretary General when visiting the Norwegian-led exercise.
But NATO's legitimacy depends on it being perceived as a defense pact, so that the organization is not defined as an aggressor by its enemies.
"Today, only those with their face covered by a MAGA cap, closed off from all other views, can maintain that American bases in the Arctic represent security and nothing more," says Holm in another commentary.
And we also report on the U.S. seeking to expand its military presence in Greenland.
Influence operations
A lot is happening in the EU these days.
When our investigative reporter dug through an EU consultation on Arctic policy, he discovered more than a hundred near‑identical and anonymous anti‑drilling comments dated to mid‑March, in what appears to have been a coordinated campaign targeting Norwegian petroleum interests.
And the EU and Iceland step up collaboration in several areas.
Read about all this and more at High North News. Feel free to follow us on social media and participate in the debate.
Best, Editor-in-Chief Trine Jonassen
