As Finland started rolling out coronavirus vaccinations to all 12- to 15-year-olds from Monday this week, a parallel campaign of anti-vaccination disinformation began targeting the age group through social media channels, including the popular photo sharing site Instagram. Many of the posts reference the Pelastetaan lapset (roughly translated as ‘Let’sContinue Reading
Starting from Monday, August 9, travellers arriving from Monaco must undergo double testing and quarantine entry at government-provided quarantine facilities, as the country has been added to the dark red category, the Norwegian authorities have announced. The colour-coded system, assessed by the Norwegian Institute of Public Health from July 5,Continue Reading
To ensure students are able to return to schools normally for the 2021/2022 academic year, they will need to have a valid Covid-19 vaccination/recovery certificate or negative Covid-19 test result, as decided by Latvian Cabinet of Ministers on Tuesday, 10 August. That’s Latvia. Just remind you that in Lithuania protestersContinue Reading
Finland’s Interior Minister and chair of the Green Party Maria Ohisalo has demanded that the government’s coalition partners make the necessary decisions on climate policy during budget negotiations scheduled for the autumn. This includes policies aimed at reducing the amount of emissions from agriculture, Ohisalo added, as Finland seeks toContinue Reading
People are holding state and municipal flags and posters saying “STOP Discrimination”, F**k National Certificate”, and also chanted “Disgrace, disgrace”. “We need to protect the state, the Constitution, to defend our rights, a free choice, for our rights not to be restricted, irrespective of whether a person wants to getContinue Reading
More and more countries are opting for third vaccine shots. People belonging to risk groups will get their third vaccine shots in Germany and France in September. Israel recently announced as much. Estonia sees no need for third jabs yet. Israel said in late July that it will immunize peopleContinue Reading
Compared to July 2020, the average level of consumer prices was mainly influenced by the rise in prices of goods and services related to transport, goods and services related to housing, food and non-alcoholic beverages, clothing and footwear, health care, alcoholic beverages and tobacco products in July 2021, according toContinue Reading
Petteri Taalas, the Finn who leads the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), said on Monday that the world is on course to miss crucial climate change targets after the publication of the latest report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Global warming is a rather significant problem inContinue Reading
Under the proposed amendments to the Law on the Legal Status of Aliens, in case of the declaration of war, an emergency or extreme situation due to mass influx of foreigners, asylum requests can be submitted to the State Border Guard Service at border checkpoints or transit zones upon legalContinue Reading
We must show that there’s no free access to the territory of the European Union, European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson says, having arrived in Vilnius to assess the ongoing migration crisis. “This is a provocation of the Lukashenko regime. (…) And we have to make it clear thatContinue Reading