In northern Europe, women have long dominated politics: Yesterday, four female heads of government surrounded Chancellor Olaf Scholz when he appeared before the press alongside host Jonas Gahr Støre during his visit to the Nordic Council in Oslo. The group was largely in agreement on energy policy, but not so on the issue of Schengen visas for Russian citizens. Finland’s Sanna Marin and Denmark’s Mette Frederiksen again made it clear that they would like to restrict grants because of Russia’s war of aggression – after all, many Russians support their president’s actions, Marin argued. Scholz countered that this was Putin’s war, not the war of the Russian people. In the end, however, the EU wants to agree on a position – there is consensus on that, at least.