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1 month ago

Finns pick Kuusamo landscape photo as most beautiful stamp of 2025

The competition was arranged by Posti and garnered about 9,000 votes, with one third going to the winning image of a mill by the Myllykoski rapids.
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1 month ago

Finns Party’s Wille Rydman appointed social affairs and health minister

At the same time, Kaisa Juuso (Finns) was released from her duties at the head of the ministry.
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1 month ago

HS: Orpo says government is not preparing to abolish inheritance, gift tax

“This is not in the government programme,” Prime Minister Petteri Orpo (NCP) told Helsingin Sanomat.
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1 month ago

Friday’s papers: Pulling the ‘debt brake’, star restaurateur slams delivery commissions, and slick roads this weekend

Helsingin Sanomat reports that a working group has found that Finland needs to save between 8 and 11 billion euros by 2031.
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1 month ago

Government grants €1m-euro in aid to struggling news agency STT

Founded in 1887, STT is one of the oldest news agencies in the world.
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1 month ago

Unions: Planned integration cuts would also threaten hundreds of teaching jobs

The Finnish government has proposed cutting integration funding by around 47 million euros.
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1 month ago

Thursday’s papers: Finns Party minister switch, gender-free dressing room plans, and electricity prices spike again

“If it happens, I might not swim here anymore,” a frequent user of the public pool in Lohja told Hufvudstadsbladet about the gender-neutral changing room plans.
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1 month ago

Finnish MPs reject citizens’ initiative to legalise cannabis

The citizens’ initiative was started in 2022.
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1 month ago

Estonia: Nato would strike ‘deep inside Russia’ if Putin hits Baltics

Russia is reinforcing its western frontier, including its border with Finland.
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1 month ago

Flu season in 8th week — with no end in sight

Influenza season started ahead of Christmas and was expected to peak at the beginning of the year. But that didn’t happen.
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