As Latvia prepares to introduce a bottle deposit system in 2022, the first five bottle deposit return machines have been erected in five shops in Riga and Ventspils. This week, the company SIA Tomra Collection Latvia has begun setting up bottle deposit return machines called ‘taromāts’ in Latvian in theContinue Reading
Lithuania’s authorities are on Tuesday starting to move the most vulnerable groups of migrants to a new camp in Rukla, a town in the central district of Jonava. “Today, the first 40 will reach the new camp in Rukla,” Social Security and Labor Minister Monika Navickiene told LRT Radio. TheContinue Reading
Over one centimetre of snowfall was measured in Lapland before 9am on Tuesday morning, meeting the required criteria to be declared this winter’s ‘first snow’. Finland’s first snow of this winter officially fell on Tuesday morning, 14 September, as the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) measured over one centimetre of theContinue Reading
Some 562 irregular migrants have had their applications for political asylum in Lithuania examined and rejected, and 130 of them have left the country since the start of the year, the Interior Ministry said on Tuesday. The ministry published statistics showing that around 2,400 people have been turned away sinceContinue Reading
Monday marks the start of the sixth session of the XVI Riigikogu. After successfully electing Estonia’s next president, MPs are now looking at the third readings of outstanding bills. President Kersti Kaljulaid’s speech will be followed by bill 392 aimed at boosting independence and transparency of communications data collected inContinue Reading
Finland’s rate of inflation, or the year-on-year change in consumer prices, rose to 2.2 percent in August, according to preliminary data published on Tuesday by Statistics Finland. The corresponding figure in July was 1.9 percent, and the latest figures continue this year’s trend of a monthly year-on-year increase in Finland’sContinue Reading
Clement Beaune, the French minister for European affairs, has said that the European Union must take Lithuania’s experience into account when discussing common migration and asylum rules. He called on the bloc to accelerate discussions on this issue. “Belarus is using this as a testing ground for our solidarity. SoContinue Reading
Helsinki and Uusimaa Hospital District’s (HUS) Chief Physician Asko Järvinen has called the government’s new Covid hybrid strategy “confusing” during an interview on Yle TV1’s breakfast show Ylen aamu. Prime Minister Sanna Marin (SDP) announced on Monday that her cabinet had approved a revised strategy, which will allow for theContinue Reading
Getting to 90% of fully vaccinated people in Norway is an ambition, not a prerequisite for returning to normal everyday life, Minister of Health Bent Høie (H) stated. The health authorities’ overarching goal is to limit the spread of infection and keep the disease burden low until 90% of theContinue Reading
Tuore kansainvälinen tutkimus antaa vahvistusta ristiriitaiselta kuulostavalle teorialle, jonka mukaan maailmanlaajuinen ilmaston lämpeneminen voi saada aikaan paikallisesti hyvin ankaria talvisäitä. Science-tiedelehdessä (siirryt toiseen palveluun) julkaisun tutkimuksen mukaan ilmaston lämpeneminen muuttaa polaaripyörteen nimellä tunnettua napa-aluetta kiertävää tuulijärjestelmää. Polaaripyörre erottaa hyvin kylmän napa-alueen ilman eteläisempien vyöhykkeiden lämpimämmästä ilmasta. Polaaripyörre kiertää pohjoisnapaa aaltoillen,Continue Reading