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1 month ago
President Alexander Stubb discussed Ukraine and other issues in response to questions from the public during a live broadcast on Yle’s Radio Suomi on Sunday.
1 month ago
As of August, delivery firm Wolt will forbid registered couriers IDs from leasing their accounts to others. That’s partly because Wolt hopes to start home deliveries of alcoholic beverages.
1 month ago
An elderly resident is suspected of gross negligence after a fire spread quickly to an apartment building roof, sending plumes of smoke across Helsinki. No injuries were reported.
1 month ago
Power utilities will in effect be paying customers to use excess electricity – but consumers will still have to pay transmission fees and taxes on what they use.
1 month ago
Two opposition parties, the Greens and the Social Democrats, laid out their visions for the next government’s policies at conferences that began on Saturday.
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Finland’s economic growth in the first quarter was more than twice as high as the OECD average – but so was its unemployment rate.
1 month ago
A study by the University of Turku found that Finland’s immigrants were two-and-a-half times more likely to develop mental health disorders compared to the general population.
1 month ago
Nato foreign ministers are gathering in Helsingborg, Sweden.
1 month ago
In addition to shifting school vacations to mid-June, a ministry report also suggests adding a week-long break in April.
1 month ago
A government working group examining the matter is scheduled to submit an interim report by the end of this month.