Restrictions imposed to slow the spread of the coronavirus within the Finnish Defense Forces are to be lifted in four different stages. The first is the waiving of the current requirement to use a face mask and safety distancing of two metres outdoors. These first restrictions are scheduled to beContinue Reading
Sunday marked polling day of the 2021 local government council elections in Estonia. Preliminary results put voter turnout at 54.7 percent, with record 275,587 votes cast electronically between Monday and Saturday. People supported election coalitions in most of Estonia’s 79 local governments, with Center proving the most successful political partyContinue Reading
Lithuanian Interior Minister Agne Bilotaite has refrained to comment on the parliamentary Committee on National Security and Defense’s information about several dozen migrants’ possible ties with terrorists. She told a press conference on Friday that services identify threats and members of the public should feel safe. “I would like toContinue 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
Hallitus on kokoontunut keskustelemaan muun muassa Suomen avaamisesta. Pääministeri Sanna Marin sanoo ymmärtävänsä lääkäreiden vetoomuksen tartunnanjäljityksestä. Hän valaisi myös, miten esimerkiksi yritykset voisivat hyödyntää koronapassia.Continue Reading
Finland may lose its competitive edge compared to other nearby countries after the coronavirus crisis, warns an article published by the Bank of Finland on Wednesday. According to Bank of Finland adviser Lauri Kajanoja, the price of labour in Finland increased between 2019 and 2021 in relation to the eurozoneContinue Reading
Russian-speaking people in Estonia and Latvia live in the Russian world, writer and social anthropologist Erika Fatland writes in Norway’s largest daily Aftenposten. In an article entitled “Trapped in the Kremlin’s long shadows” (“Fanget i Kremls lange skygger”), Fatland says that thirty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union,Continue Reading
Dunja Mijatovic, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, has called on Lithuania to respect its international human rights commitments in the current migration crisis, and Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte has said in response that irregular migrants attempting to crossing into the country can hardly be considered refugees. “ItContinue Reading
Despite following the course of events over the past two years in the war-torn country, Finland’s Ambassador to Afghanistan Pekka Kosonen said he was as surprised as anyone else about the events that began unfolding as the country’s government collapsed and the Taliban took control. The ambassador made the commentsContinue Reading
PM Stefan Lofven said he plans to step down as leader of the Social Democratic Party and as prime minister. The announcement comes ahead of parliamentary elections in 2022. In a move that appears to have caught Sweden off guard, the country’s prime minister, Stefan Lofven, said he intends to stepContinue Reading