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• Is Finland’s government new energy and climate policy safe and sound?

  By Editeur on November 24, 2016 • ( 2 )

  

  According to Yle News, the Finnish government has just released a new energy and climate policy aiming to cut vehicular emissions and increase the use of renewables.Juha Sipilä’s administration wants more than 50 percent of the country’s energy to come… Read More ›

• French primaries, Putin and Finland

  By Editeur on November 21, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  Last Sunday, there has been primaries in France, and the Finnish press, so keen on the US primaries, could not care less. But it is key news for Finland, in particular because the winner, Francois Fillon (who will bemost probably… Read More ›

• Tightening the empathy gap—by gaming?

  By Editeur on November 19, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

    Maria Ohisalo, Vice President of the Finnish Green Party,  Master of Political Science and a Poverty Scholar, writes about games and ethics. In the fourth part of the Grand Theft Auto video game series the player is presented with… Read More ›

• We must hold on to the equality of education (by Outi Alanko-Kahiluoto)

  By Editeur on November 16, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  The government will cut EUR 190m from vocational education from the beginning of next year onward. In practice this means a decrease of approximately 18 000 vocational education places, a third of total freshmen places available for the youth. Places… Read More ›

• The Year of the Red Monkey

  By Editeur on November 9, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  A lot of people were surprised by the Brexit, and a lot are now astonished by Trump success. Sorry, this could be expected: we are in the Chinese Year of the Fire monkey, and as a Feng shui half-educated amateur… Read More ›

• Why Finland’s basic income plans are going to fail

  By Editeur on November 6, 2016 • ( 3 )

  

  The Finnish Ministry of Health and Social Affairs has published all information concerning the basic income experiment which should be implemented in Finland from the 1/1/2017, and it does not look very useful. More generally, the future of the basic… Read More ›

• Is Finland fighting efficiently against inequalities?

  By Editeur on October 24, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  As stated recently by Oxfam, the richest 1% now have more wealth than the rest of the world’s population combined. Global inequality is worse than at any time since the 19th century. People looking at the success of Donald Trump,… Read More ›

• Helsinki becomes a leader in the field of research on political Corporate Social Responsibility

  By Editeur on October 22, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Hanken School of Economics and University of Helsinki announced the foundation of a joint research and development institute , the Centre for Corporate Responsibility (CCR) is to enhance collaborative and cross-disciplinary research on the interactions between business, politics and society…. Read More ›

• Last news from NATO: a new US strategy, NATO exercises at the Russian border and a NATO member becoming Putin’s best friend

  By Editeur on October 20, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Some days after a governemental declaration indicating that “Finland is going to strengthten its relations with NATO“, it is interesting to follow what happens behind the scene. The US is secretly designing a new strategy aiming to take into account… Read More ›

• Prime Minister Sipilä:No to violence, no to hate speech, no to racism

  By Editeur on October 5, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  we must now keep our heads cool while our hearts remain warm. Each of us should think about what we could do to ease the integration for those who escape conflict and persecution: learning the language, finding employment and settling into their daily routines