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
Cyber Shield 2022, the largest national cyber security exercise this year, kicks off in Lithuania on Tuesday. The three-day exercise, which has been organized by the National Cyber Security Center (NCSC), will involve representatives of the Lithuanian Armed Forces, the General Jonas Zemaitis Military Academy of Lithuania, the Core CenterContinue Reading
President Niinistö suggested that China, the US and the EU should discuss together how to avoid further escalation of the deadly conflict in Ukraine. Parliamentarians from Nato member and partner countries gathered in Helsinki on Tuesday for the alliance’s Rose-Roth Seminar. The theme of this year’s seminar focused on theContinue Reading
The issue of extending military conscription to include women as well as men has been the subject of much debate in Finland over recent months. Some 35 percent of respondents to a survey by the Uutissuomalainen newspaper group said they would be in favour of extending military conscription to women.Continue Reading
As part of the deal, Fortum will receive 0.5 billion euros for its majority stake in the German gas importer. The Finnish company Fortum confirmed on Wednesday that it will be selling its entire stake in gas firm Uniper to the German government. As part of the deal, Fortum willContinue Reading