One of the reasons companies are looking to build data centres in Finland is financial. The country had the second-cheapest electricity in Europe last year.
Finnish climate minister Sari Multala (NCP) said that the EU must present “a strong message” on a consistent climate policy in order to strengthen its competitiveness.
The Immigration Service (Migri) reports a large backlog of citizenship applications, many of them from asylum seekers who arrived in 2015 and are now seeking Finnish passports.