Former right-leaning Prime Minister Alexander Stubb won a closely fought presidential election run-off on Sunday, the first election held since the country joined the NATO alliance last year, the BBC reported. Stubb, from the ruling National Coalition Party (NCP), earned 51.6 percent of the vote, defeating...
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Hundreds of thousands of workers in Finland went on strike to protest proposed labor law reforms, which they say would negatively affect low-wage earners and tilt the balance of power toward employers in salary negotiations, Euronews reported Thursday. Strikes took place in a number of cities...
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The former president of Finland and 2008 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Martti Ahtisaari died recently at the age of 86. He helped draft peace accords in Namibia in the 1980s, in Northern Ireland and between Serbia and Kosovo in the 1990s, and in Aceh province...
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China this week denied involvement in the damaging of an underwater gas pipeline linking Finland with Estonia and the European Union, an incident that Finnish investigators have labeled as sabotage, Al Jazeera reported. Earlier this month, Finnish authorities discovered that the Balticconector gas pipeline was leaking...
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Finland began culling 120,000 foxes and mink this week, as Europe’s largest fox fur producer is attempting to prevent an outbreak of avian flu on its farms, Euronews reported. Health officials said Wednesday the cull has already been carried out on 10 farms and an order...
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Finnish lawmakers approved National Coalition Party (NCP) leader Petteri Orpo as the country’s new prime minister on Tuesday, ushering in a right-wing government following elections that saw the ousting of Prime Minister Sanna Marin, Reuters reported. Orpo’s approval came after the NCP and three other right-wing...
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Finland became NATO’s 31st member Tuesday, a historic move that comes amid the ongoing war in Ukraine that revitalized the relevance of the defense alliance, the Washington Post reported. Finnish membership will now double NATO’s land border with Russia, adding more than 800 miles and boosting...
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For the fifth time in a row, Finns are the happiest people in the world. According to the United Nations’ World Happiness Report, citizens of Finland demonstrate high levels of “eudaimonia,” a term the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle coined to describe “overall life satisfaction,” reflecting a...
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Contentious legislation that would reform Finland’s law governing rights for its Indigenous Sámi people failed to get past the final committee stage in parliament, shattering the hopes of Sámi activists who had seen the bill as a major step toward self-determination, Euronews reported. The Sámi Parliament...
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A new report from Amnesty International said the Ukrainian military has occasionally put people at risk of Russian strikes by establishing bases in schools, homes and other sites in inhabited regions, the Associated Press wrote. A Russian court found WNBA star Brittney Griner guilty...
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If Finland joins NATO, the Western Alliance will have opened a potential 800-mile-long front in a war against Russia. What’s more, as the Washington Post illustrated, this new front would come very close to Russia's nuclear submarine and Arctic navy bases on the Kola Peninsula. If...
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Finlandization has been proposed as a final status for Ukraine after Russia concludes its ongoing brutal invasion. But the Finns might counsel against it. The Finns are themselves considering joining NATO rather than continuing to accept what the New York Times described as the “stifled sovereignty”...
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