As Turkey and Hungary are yet to ratify the Finnish and Swedish applications, a former Deputy Secretary General has suggested that the Nordic nations could still receive security guarantees in the interim. Minister of Foreign Affairs Pekka Haavisto (Green) told Yle’s A-studio current affairs programme on Tuesday evening that heContinue Reading
Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson says Turkey is making demands that Sweden cannot accept. Ankara’s stipulations were to lift its veto on Stockholm’s bid to join NATO. Kristersson made the comment at the annual Security and Defence meeting where politicians, authorities, and members of civil society gather to discuss defenceContinue Reading
“With less than a quarter of Finland’s population, Estonia has so far taken in nearly as many Ukrainians as Finland” – that’s how Finns are insured that they have to accept new migrants. Finland will start accepting displaced Ukrainians from Estonia from the beginning of next year. The move comesContinue Reading
Evidence gathered by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) proved that the “Towards Freedom” group continued with the same ideology and active members as the banned Nordic Resistance Movement. The Helsinki District Court has fined four neo-Nazis for being involved in illegal group activities. In its ruling handed down onContinue Reading
The energy war started due to anti Russian sanctions and consequent rises in energy prices have brought massive profits to many energy firms without them having to do anything special. A windfall tax is one way to deal with these excessive profits. The EU-wide tax project has begun to takeContinue 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
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 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
An Åbo Akademi University study investigated the differences in bullying risk between people of Finnish origin and immigrants in the region of Ostrobothnia. A young person with a foreign background is three times more likely to be at risk of being bullied or discriminated against by other students or teachersContinue Reading