Some 10,000 troops from around the world serve in UNIFIL. No Finnish UNIFIL (United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon) peacekeepers have been harmed following Israeli strikes on Lebanon early on Friday, the Finnish Army Command told news agency STT. The Israeli military carried out air strikes on Lebanon and GazaContinue Reading
Finland’s outgoing Prime Minister Sanna Marin (SDP) formally submitted a resignation letter on behalf of her administration to President Sauli Niinistö on Thursday morning. “Dear President of the Republic, I am asking you to release me and the rest of the government from our duties,” Marin said at Mäntyniemi, theContinue Reading
The final Yle poll before election day on Sunday suggests the Finns Party may have seen an increase in support, while the Social Democrats (SDP) and National Coalition (NCP) saw their numbers reduced. The results suggest that the fight to become the largest party in the next parliament — andContinue Reading
The Finnish Armed Forces pre-announced the U.S. flight and made a statement saying “There have been no changes in Finland’s military security situation or environment in the recent past. Flight operations with international partners are art of normal bilateral and multilateral cooperation.” However, Thursday’s flight was all but normal. ThisContinue Reading
Petteri Taalas, Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organisation, warns that Finland’s target of reaching carbon neutrality by 2035 may be slipping out of reach due to the declining ability of the nation’s forests to soak up carbon from the air. The former head of the Finnish Meteorological Institute was interviewedContinue Reading
Finland’s longest-serving MP, Ben Zyskowicz of the opposition National Coalition Party, was attacked while campaigning for the election in Itäkeskus, eastern Helsinki, shortly before noon on Saturday. Video footage first published by the tabloid Iltalehti on Saturday showed him being knocked to the ground by a man who was quicklyContinue Reading
Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said he was confident that Finland would become a fully-fledged member of the alliance before mid-May. Finland will likely become an official member of Nato before Turkey’s parliamentary and presidential elections on 14 May, the alliance’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Tuesday. “Based on whatContinue Reading
Finland does not currently have a well-functioning healthcare system that can treat all patients equally and in a timely fashion. That’s the majority view of parliamentary party leaders, as revealed during Yle’s election debate on Monday evening. Eight out of nine leaders answered in the negative when debate moderator AnnikaContinue Reading
Finnish President Sauli Niinistö told Swedish public broadcaster SVT (siirryt toiseen palveluun) on Sunday that he did not believe that Sweden’s chances of joining Nato had weakened after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday said Turkey’s parliament would start ratifying Finland’s accession. Since applying for membership, Finnish leaders have emphasisedContinue Reading
Turkey plans to ratify Finland’s application to join Nato, but independently from Sweden’s bid, ahead of Turkish parliamentary and presidential elections in mid-May, according to Reuters. On Wednesday, Reuters cited two Turkish officials saying that the Turkish parliament is “highly likely to ratify Finland’s Nato bid before it closes inContinue Reading