Newsletter The Aftermath
Election debate in Tromsø ahead of the US presidential election: Editor and commentator in High North News led the debate on election night on 5 November, together with journalist Amund Trellevik in Investigate Europe. On stage were, among others, Anja Kristine Salo (right) and author Trine Hamran. (Photo: Media Event)
Dear reader. While we take a breather after an intense and, if I may say so myself, successful US election watch party in Tromsø, we turn our gaze back to the North, to the Norwegian-Russian fisheries cooperation, the Arctic Council, Russia's battle against sanctions, and research. Here is the week that passed in the North.
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The nearly 80-year-old Republican Donald Trump has won the US presidential election. What this entails for the Arctic was the topic when High North News and Amund Trellevik organized a watch party in Tromsø the day before the election with 16 voices from and for the North.
Yet, while the US election continues to characterize the global news, things are also happening in the High North.
Norway and Russia have reached a fishery agreement for next year.
"Although the rhetoric against Norway has toughened, representatives of Russian authorities regularly point out that the fishery cooperation is necessary in regard to the stocks," says an FNI researcher. (Norwegian only)
Arctic conferences
Speaking of large Arctic conferences; As their last act, the Norwegian Chairship of the Arctic Council and Nord University will host the “highly anticipated” Arctic Emergency Management Conference in Bodø, Northern Norway, in March of 2025.
Sanctions and politics
Western sanctions continue to impact Russia’s Arctic LNG 2 project.
(Un)Culture
The Norwegian MFA suggests a cut of NOK 4 million in the national budget for 2025 for the cultural cooperation in the High North.
This makes Editor and Commentator Arne O. Holm react:
“I don't know how many ministers and politicians I have heard speaking fondly about the significance of culture for the High North. I just know there have been many. From now on, however, we will be free of that fuss”, writes Holm in the comment.
We will be back with more analyses of the US election, and Holm is rolling northward in his mobile office, so stay tuned!
Best regards, Editor-in-Chief Trine Jonassen