The United Nations adopted a landmark resolution on 27 October to launch negotiations in 2017 on a treaty outlawing nuclear weapons. This historic decision heralds an end to two decades of paralysis in multilateral nuclear disarmament efforts. At a meeting… Read More ›
Tiina Wilén-Jäppinen, Imatra’s city council chair, was killed along with two journalists that wrote for the local Uutisvahti newspaper in Imatra late Saturday evening in what was apparently a random shooting. According to Yle News, Social Democratic Party Chair Antti… Read More ›
According to Yle News, Prime Minister Juha Sipilä is under attack because Katera Steel, an engineering company owned by his uncles, cousins and his children (through an investment holding company) had won a lucrative order of 500 000 euros from… Read More ›
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 ›
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 ›
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
Some time ago, we said that we would come back to the question of NATO for Finland, as the government has accepted a closer relationship with NATO, with in particular a new observer status in closed meetings and a participation… Read More ›
After the UK vote in favor of the Brexit, panic seems to emerge on the Finnish economic playing field: according to YLE, on the first day of trading on the Helsinki Stock Exchange since Thursday’s vote, shares sank about six… Read More ›
What is the situation in the Green Party? People see that we are responsible, not just opposing everything. We have also been saying that we are supporting the government in some places, such as the social and healthcare reform, if… Read More ›
As you all probably know, there is a serious contender to replace Alexander Stubb for the coming congress of the National Coalition Party: Minister of Interior Petteri Orpo. The polls are not very reliable, and for the moment it is… Read More ›
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