USA:s president Joe Biden höll sitt kanske viktigaste tal hittills då han bestämt försvarade tillbakadragandet från Afghanistan. Men han får kritik från flera läger, inte minst från oppositionen. Inte ens bland demokraterna finns någon vilja att rusa till Bidens försvar. ”I månader har Biden och hans administration lovat att tillbakadragandetContinue Reading
Tensions are simmering in Lithuania. The migrant crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, divisions stemming from the rejection for a new massive protest march by the Lithuanian Family Movement (LFM) in Vilnius. And then Kaunas’ firm «no» to a first-ever LGBTQ march in the city on Saturday, September 4. «The accumulation ofContinue Reading
Nurses union Tehy reported in its members’ magazine on Thursday that the City of Helsinki had agreed a deal with three large private healthcare providers to prevent them poaching municipal nursing staff. Tehy chair Millariikka Rytkönen told Yle that the union started to investigate after receiving tip-offs from members. “WeContinue Reading
The National Audit Office report “Accuracy and legality of transactions in state accounting in 2020” that was published on Tuesday revealed that all summary accounts of costs, expenses, investments and financing transactions in the 2020 state budget that was approved by the Riigikogu are false because the Ministry of FinanceContinue Reading
The National Coalition Party (NCP) has extended its lead at the top of Yle’s latest monthly voter survey, further building on the party’s momentum from topping the poll at June’s municipal elections. Support for the NCP rose by almost one percentage point to 21.3 percent during the month of August.Continue Reading
For 100 years Britain had been described as “the empire on which the sun never sets”. Britain was a powerful colonial power owning numerous colonies around the world. Today the word “colony” is no longer used in its original meaning, but the British Queen continues to perform her sovereign role,Continue Reading
Earlier proposals called for the raising of the minimum wage by 61 euros, or 9.5 percent, to 703 euros, but Social Security and Labor Minister Monika Navickiene said last month that the minimum wage might be increased more substantially. The agenda of the Cabinet’s Wednesday meeting does include the issueContinue Reading
Climate change will pose a number of different security threats to Finland in the future, according to a fresh report from research body the Finnish Institute of International Affairs. The report was commissioned by the government and examines the potential effects of climate change on Finland and Finnish society upContinue Reading
With the global economic development the Arctic region has increasingly become important. Depletion of natural resources forces countries to exploit remote and hard-to-reach mineral deposits. International experts assess that Arctic accounts for about 13% of undiscovered oil, 30% of undiscovered natural gas, and 30% of freshwater in the world. Consequently,Continue Reading
EU Interior Ministers met on Tuesday evening to thrash out a response to the Afghan crisis, and Finland was represented there by Green leader Maria Ohisalo. Instinctively pro-immigration, Ohisalo might not have had a comfortable evening as the ministers argued about the use of the term ‘illegal immigration’. Euronews reportsContinue Reading