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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.
Email Richard Milne @rmilneNordic  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)
  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2024
    FT Globetrotter
    The FT foreign correspondents’ guide to business dining around the world

    The top tables for breaking bread and sealing deals in great global cities

    2 hours ago
    A group of business men in suits sitting around a restaurant table chatting.
  • Tuesday, 17 September, 2024
    SKF AB
    Sweden’s SKF plans automotive spin-off after pressure from activist investor Cevian

    Shares rally 10% as the world’s largest bearings maker joins other industrial groups seeking to become more focused

    Factory conveyor belt
  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
    Northvolt AB
    Swedish PM rules out government rescue of troubled Northvolt

    Battery start-up struggles to gain backing for latest fundraising amid Europe’s slowing take-up of electric vehicles

    A worker outside Northvolt’s gigafactory in Skellefteå, north Sweden
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    DSV A/S
    DSV buys Deutsche Bahn logistics business in €14.3bn deal

    Danish group will become world’s largest logistics management company with acquisition of Schenker

    A truck with a blue trailer marked "DSV" is seen driving outside the logistics center of the transport company in Hedehusene, Denmark
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    Nokia
    Nokia seeks to replace CEO in bid to revive falling sales

    The active search comes as Pekka Lundmark has failed to revive growth

    Nokia stand at an exhibition
  • Tuesday, 10 September, 2024
    Energy Source
    Brookfield to invest up to $1.1bn in e-fuels start-up Infinium Premium content

    Also in today’s newsletter, Norway debates when it should halt oil and gas production

    A montage of the Brookfield logo on a mobile phone with a chart of financial data behind it
  • Tuesday, 10 September, 2024
    Sweden
    Sweden says rooting out gangs will take a decade

    Justice minister warns that criminals are recruiting children for extremist groups abroad

    Gunnar Strömmer speaks at a press conference in Stockholm. Behind him are Swedish flags.
  • Monday, 9 September, 2024
    Electric vehicles
    Northvolt to cut jobs and sell off unit to survive EV chill

    Swedish battery maker has been grappling with factory problems and slowing growth in European EV take-up

    The NorthVolt AB Labs research and development center in Vasteras, Sweden
  • Friday, 6 September, 2024
    Vinted
    TPG in talks to buy stake in Vinted at €5bn valuation

    US private equity group’s interest highlights growing demand for second-hand goods from consumers and investors

    A shopper looks at Vinted on a mobile phone
  • Saturday, 31 August, 2024
    The Big Read
    The relentless rise of second-hand

    From Ikea to Vinted, younger consumers are showing a taste for pre-owned clothes and furniture. But can the sector actually make money?

  • Wednesday, 28 August, 2024
    Lego
    Lego’s costly move to recycled plastic underpinned by surging profits

    World’s largest toymaker posts record results thanks in part to video game tie-ups and sports brand partnerships

    Lego characters
  • Tuesday, 27 August, 2024
    Klarna AB
    Klarna weighs removal of co-founder’s key ally from board

    Turmoil comes months after previous boardroom spat over chair Michael Moritz and ahead of long-awaited IPO

    A Klarna logo is displayed on a laptop screen in the background and on a mobile phone screen in the foreground
  • Tuesday, 27 August, 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    Klarna aims to halve workforce with AI-driven gains

    Chief executive of buy now, pay later group heralds benefits of the technology as it narrows quarterly loss

    Montage featuring Klarna’s chief executive Sebastian Siemiatkowski and the company’s logo
  • Monday, 26 August, 2024
    Ikea
    Ikea launches secondhand marketplace to compete with eBay

    Furniture retailer challenges digital classified ads ‘oligopoly’ with peer-to-peer sales platform for its products

    A montage of the Ikea and eBay logos with an armchair in the background
  • Tuesday, 20 August, 2024
    Sveriges Riksbank
    Sweden’s Riksbank sees case for further rate cuts

    Low inflation gives monetary policymakers more room to boost ailing economy after 25bp cut to 3.5%

    A flag outside the Riksbank headquarters in Stockholm
  • Friday, 16 August, 2024
    Margrethe Vestager
    EU antitrust regime nears end of Vestager era

    Danish commissioner renowned for being tough on Big Tech will not be reappointed for a third term

    Margrethe Vestager
  • Thursday, 15 August, 2024
    Inside BusinessIkea
    Is Ikea more Dutch than Swedish?

    Despite its Älmhult roots, the centre of the flat-pack giant’s structure is the Netherlands

    A woman pushes a trolley past an Ikea store
  • Thursday, 15 August, 2024
    Norges Bank
    Oslo struggles to solve ‘mystery’ of Norwegian krone’s decline

    The currency’s decline has raised prices and kept borrowing costs high

    Norwegian krone notes
  • Tuesday, 13 August, 2024
    The Big Read
    Can Sweden deliver its much hyped green energy boom?

    Abundant electricity in the north was supposed to power a new wave of industrialisation. But projects are struggling to scale up

  • Friday, 9 August, 2024
    Denmark
    Denmark tightens border controls with Sweden after surge in shootings

    Officials aim to limit attacks from ‘Swedish child soldiers’ hired by Danish gangs

    File picture of border control patrols and vehicles at the border crossing on the Oresund Bridge
  • Thursday, 8 August, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    Israel’s allies condemn far-right minister’s Gaza starvation remarks

    Finance minister Bezalel Smotrich said allowing 2mn civilians in Gaza to die of hunger would be ‘justified and moral’

    Palestinian children queue for food
  • Wednesday, 7 August, 2024
    Denmark
    Danish PM’s attacker sentenced to prison and deportation

    Polish national says he was too drunk to remember punching Mette Fredriksen in June

    Mette Frederiksen, centre, attends a public event in June, days after she was assaulted while out one evening in central Copenhagen
  • Wednesday, 7 August, 2024
    AP Møller-Maersk AS
    Maersk says companies are bringing orders forward on US-China trade war threat

    ‘People would rather have Christmas goods already in the warehouse,’ says chief of container shipping group

    The container ship Gunde Maersk, docked at the Port of Oakland
  • Thursday, 1 August, 2024
    AP Møller-Maersk AS
    Maersk raises guidance for the third time since May on the back of Red Sea disruption

    Container shipping group forecasts higher profits for third time since May

    Containers on Maersk ship
  • Sunday, 28 July, 2024
    EU defence
    European defence in need of big financial boost, says Saab chief

    Micael Johansson says region’s industrial strategy should have backing of €100bn rather than the €1.5bn envisaged

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