Some 300 migrant children will start learning the Lithuanian language in October as stipulated by international and Lithuanian law. There are no plans to teach migrant children other languages. „Based on the currently available information, around 300 migrant children will start attending lessons on October 1. (..) Under the existingContinue Reading
Oulu District Court on Monday issued Oulu parliamentarian Sebastian Tynkkynen 70 day fines—amounting to 4,400 euros—for inciting hatred ethnic agitation. Tynkkynen was charged with agitation against an ethnic group after publishing his texts on social media in 2017. Prosecutors said his writings slandered immigrants and asylum seekers, and asked forContinue Reading
I 32 år har Mathis Olav Nordnes (80) vært nærmeste nabo til elven Leira i Lillestrøm. Søndag ble vannstanden så høy at to broer i Leirsund måtte stenge. I løpet av den tiden han har bodd i området, har Nordnes opplevd å måtte rive ned og skifte isolasjon på eiendommenContinue Reading
A captain in the Finnish army who served as a head of HR is suspected of service crimes and disclosing confidential information. According to the prosecutor in the case, the captain repeatedly used sexist and offensive language towards and about women serving with him. The crimes are suspected to haveContinue Reading
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Wednesday ruled not to extend the interim measures introduced in the case of five Afghan migrants against Lithuania. The ECHR stated that the decision was made taking into account the fact that the mentioned Afghan citizens are now in the territory ofContinue Reading
Hydrographer Peeter Ude, working as part of the private MS Estonia expedition, has not yet found the shipping containers he believes lie next to the wreck of MS Estonia. However, an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) piloted by Ude happened upon three peculiar metal constructions topped by what appear to beContinue Reading
Terveyden ja hyvinvoinnin laitos (THL) uudisti kasvomaskisuositustaan. Päivitetyn suosituksen mukaan maskia suositellaan käyttämään jatkossa oman harkinnan mukaan. Pääministeri Sanna Marin (sd) kertoo Instagramissa näkemyksensä maskien poistumisesta. Marin sai innoituksensa asiasta oikeusministeri Anna-Maja Henrikssonilta (r). Henriksson kertoo, että ”Näin iloinen on myös pääministeri Sanna Marin, kun voimme käyttää omaa harkintaamme THL:nContinue Reading
Lithuania has proposed changing the existing EU migration rules to provide for a possibility to push back irregular migrants when an extreme situation is declared in a country, and to also approve funding from the EU budget for physical barriers, Lithuanian Interior Minister Agne Bilotaite says. “In such situations whenContinue Reading
Lithuania is ready to take in up to 30 people who assisted NATO’s mission in Afghanistan, in addition to around 180 Afghan interpreters and their family members who have already come to the country, Deividas Matulionis, Vilnius’ ambassador to NATO, said on Thursday. The Lithuanian government’s Migration Commission has madeContinue Reading
An estimated 700,000 more people will die than be born in Finland by 2060, according to a forecast published by Statistics Finland on Thursday The forecast predicts that Finland’s population will begin to decline in 2034, when the estimated population will have reached 5.6 million, without immigration to increase theContinue Reading