After the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, so much Russian pipeline gas has been imported into the Baltic-Finnish gas network that it exceeds Estonia’s annual consumption by more than two and a half times. But without purchasing the despised resource our rooms could stay cold in winter. Mid-October. BothContinue Reading
Finland is recruiting nurses from the Philippines to tackle its nursing shortage. Fifteen Filipino nurses recently arrived in Pirkanmaa as part of a pilot programme to train as care assistants in Finnish elder care homes. After completing training at a school in the Philippines run by a Finnish staffing agency,Continue Reading
Foreign nurses have been proposed as a solution to the nursing shortage, but only five of the 20 hospital districts in mainland Finland have recruited nursing staff from abroad in the past year, reports the Finnish News Agency STT. The numbers of nurses hired have been relatively small, ranging fromContinue Reading
Vi må ikke glemme eller tro at det ikke lenger angår oss, var statsminister Jonas Gahr Støres budskap da han talte 24. november i Oslo rådhus på 80-års minnemarkeringen for den aksjonene mot jødene fant sted, som til sammen førte til at 773 jøder fra Norge ble deportert. 26. novemberContinue Reading
The Finnish start-up conference is asking the venture capital funds providing the €1m prize to withdraw their money. Slush organisers on Monday tweeted (siirryt toiseen palveluun) they were revoking Immigram’s pitching competition win at this year’s event, which resulted in a one million-euro investment for the London-based company. The start-upContinue Reading
The inability to complete the development of the Schengen Information System (SIS) in time forced Interior Minister Lauri Läänemets to apologize to both the European Union and the member states of the community a few weeks ago. The need for the development of the Schengen Information System (SIS) managed byContinue Reading
It seems like the perfect storm for Europe’s energy security as winter is fast approaching and energy prices are rising. Having turned away from Russia as a gas provider, the European Commission has begun negotiating with Norway. A deal for long-term energy cooperation will be discussed during the EU energyContinue Reading
The energy crisis caused EU support to Ukraine in war with Russia appears to have increased support for nuclear power in Finland among Parliamentary parties. And the problem is that Russian nuclear plants are cheaper and more reliable to build up. More than half of Finnish MPs think that FinlandContinue Reading
The heating period has scared the tenants. Expensive rental apartments becoming cheaper. Small and cheap sell well. The number of rental apartments in Tallinn has steeply increased and experts explain it with two main factors. Those seeking for an apartment can negotiate significantly lower rent than in the spring andContinue Reading
Estonia’s outgoing spymaster and incoming State Forest Management Center (RMK) director Mikk Marran sheds light on speculations that have been rife surrounding his decision to quit and takes a look back at the last seven years in an interview with ETV’s “Pealtnägija.” The reason we are sitting down for thisContinue Reading