Finnair cancelled around 40 flights last month after erroneously washing passenger seat covers on A321 planes with water, bringing into question the covers’ fire-resistant properties.
Officials and researchers agree that language skills are crucial to employment and integration into Finnish society – but also that no quick fix is in sight regarding access to linguistic training.
The All Points North podcast answered listeners’ questions about the latest changes to Finland’s citizenship laws, leading many people to ask us to provide the FAQs in text form.
“I think we’re on the wrong track here. It’s like we’re going back to the 2010s,” said Tuija Mäkelä, head of the union representing Tax Administration workers.
Overall, taxes paid by companies continued to decline. Two years ago, corporate tax revenue totalled eight billion euros, but last year it dropped to seven billion.
A professor responds to the Finns Party’s language manifesto, the EU still funds Putin’s war machine and northern Finland gets its first full-on snowfall.