{"id":138121,"date":"2025-03-10T08:00:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T06:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/finland-wants-to-build-a-bridge-across-the-baltic-sea-to-sweden-for-better-connections-to-europe\/"},"modified":"2025-03-10T08:00:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T06:00:06","slug":"finland-wants-to-build-a-bridge-across-the-baltic-sea-to-sweden-for-better-connections-to-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/finland-wants-to-build-a-bridge-across-the-baltic-sea-to-sweden-for-better-connections-to-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Finland wants to build a bridge across the Baltic Sea to Sweden for better connections to Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138121\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Finland is exploring options to create improved links for road and rail connections to Europe, including a fixed bridge link that would span the Baltic.Finland\u2019s connections to Europe could be given a boost thanks to a new fixed link across the Baltic Sea between the country and neighbours Sweden and Estonia.<\/p>\n<p>A new report published by the Confederation of Finnish Industries (EK) recommends building either a bridge or tunnel between Sweden and Finland amid growing geopolitical tensions and the EU\u2019s plans to connect the continent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;While securing maritime transport in the Baltic Sea, Finland has to establish new logistical routes and secure connections to Europe,&#8221; Tiina Haapasalo, the chief policy adviser in transport and infrastructure at the Confederation of Finnish Industries (EK), told Euronews Next.<\/p>\n<p>The lobby group wants the Finnish government to start a study focusing on three fixed connection options to better connect Finland with the rest of Europe over the Baltic Sea. The three routes it suggests include a tunnel or a bridge between Helsinki and Stockholm via Turku and the \u00c5land archipelago, the Gulf of Bothnia between Vaasa in Finland and Ume\u00e5 in Sweden, and an underwater tunnel between Helsinki and Tallinn in the Gulf of Finland.<\/p>\n<p>The potential Helsinki-Stockholm link could connect to Copenhagen via the \u00d8resund Bridge, a project that was once dismissed as a pie in the sky idea but is now hailed as a success, with record toll station passages totalling 7.5 million in 2024, according to recent figures released by the \u00d8resund Bridge.Connecting Copenhagen and Malm\u00f6, the bridge serves as a critical artery that links Sweden with the rest of Europe.<\/p>\n<p>It has since transformed travel and trade between Denmark and Sweden, setting a precedent for future large-scale Nordic infrastructure projects.With an average of more than 20,600 road crossings per day, the bridge had a profit of DKK 1.6 billion (about \u20ac220 million) in 2024 \u2013 an increase of DKK 155 million (about \u20ac21 million) compared to 2023. &#8221;There is a general interest among the Nordic countries to connect better to each other and connect to each other&#8217;s infrastructure and economies that are closer to each other,&#8221; Bj\u00f6rn Hasselgren, a guest researcher in the economic history department at Sweden\u2019s Uppsala University, told Euronews Next.<\/p>\n<p>Hasselgren says he participated in a similar discussion about better connections and the Helsinki-Stockholm-Copenhagen link a few years ago. &#8221;From a geopolitical point of view, it has really changed and it brings new light into this discussion. So I think there is a stronger drive from the Finnish side,&#8221; he said.Experts say an infrastructure project that involves different countries will take a lengthy investigation and face challenges.&#8221;If we speak about Sweden to Finland through \u00c5land, it&#8217;s probably much more challenging than the \u00d8resund bridge, which is quite simple actually. It&#8217;s one bridge more or less with some connections,&#8221; Hasselgren said.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/next\/2025\/03\/08\/will-a-bridge-across-the-baltic-sea-to-sweden-give-finland-faster-connections-to-europe\">Euronews<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/finland-wants-to-build-a-bridge-across-the-baltic-sea-to-sweden-for-better-connections-to-europe\/\">Finland wants to build a bridge across the Baltic Sea to Sweden for better connections to Europe<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[18173,575,586],"class_list":["post-138121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-bridge-across-the-baltic-sea","tag-environmental-news-en","tag-finland"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}