Since the start of the year, the number of people using Finland’s Wuhan coronavirus tracking app has fallen from 2.4 million to 1.8 million, representing around a quarter of users.
Germany has bucked years of decline with a sudden ten per cent surge in new children nine months after pubs and bars reopened in summer 2020.
The centre-right came top in Sunday´s local election, ahead of Sanna Marin´s Social Democrats in the first election for Finland’s new PM.
Police are investigating allegations that foreign-background residents were pressured to vote for certain candidates during the municipal election in Turku, Finland.
The Union of Pentecostal Churches of Lithuania has written an open letter condemning Finland’s prosecution of Christians who hold biblical beliefs concerning marriage and sexuality.
A group of prominent scholars and human rights advocates have written an open letter to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) to protest state prosecutions of Christians in Finland over biblical beliefs regarding marriage.
Finland’s Parliamentary Ombudsman has criticised two police officers who posed with a Black Lives Matter (BLM) sign at a protest last year, saying the move was contrary to police impartiality.
Finland’s Ministry of the Interior is investigating the possibility of letting female police officers wear hijabs as part of their police uniform.
A Muslim woman has called for Finland’s armed forces to drop the ban on the hijab, arguing that allowing the garment would increase participation in the military.
The European Union border agency Frontex has moved to discuss recent aggression from the Turkish paramilitary coastguard at an extraordinary meeting of the agency’s directors this week.
A Finnish Christian Democrat MP has been charged with incitement over LGBT-critical comments made on social media, including quoting a passage from the Bible.
VP Harris spoke to the president of Finland Monday about addressing the surge of migrants from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.
A Finnish court has sentenced an Iraqi migrant to four years in prison after being convicted of several crimes when he married a 13-year-old girl in Iraq and brought her to Finland in 2014.
A NATO report has revealed that Finland’s female-led government has received a torrent of sexist and misogynistic comments on social media.
A Brussels court has ordered the Belgian government to lift “all coronavirus measures” within 30 days after finding they were instituted on an insufficient legal basis. The court order is part of a growing legal backlash across Europe to the draconian emergency restrictions introduced by governments to counter the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.
HELSINKI (AP) – Finland’s domestic security agency on Tuesday maintained its terror threat assessment at an “elevated” level two on a four-point scale, while noting that the danger of extreme right-wing terrorism has grown in the Nordic country.
A bar in Finland hiring hundreds of customers as employees, allowing them to eat and drink at the bar as staff, has not yet been found in violation of lockdown rules.
Finland´s domestic security agency said Thursday that a China-linked group was likely behind a cyberspying attack on parliament.
The Border Guard in Finland revealed a major operation against a network suspected of aiding illegal migration by Middle Eastern migrants.
Southern Finland is reported showing signs of a Wuhan coronavirus “baby boom” as the number of births expected in March could be up to ten per cent higher than the previous year.
A record number of human trafficking victims sought help from a Finland Centre tackling the issue in 2020.
Over the last six weeks, Finland has seen a downward trend of new Chinese coronavirus cases, but the number of deaths resulting from the virus has risen.
Sweden took nearly three times as many asylum seekers as its Scandinavian neighbours Norway, Finland and Denmark combined.
HELSINKI (AP) — Finland has become the latest European country to report a case of the more contagious coronavirus variant first identified in Britain.
Finland’s Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto has admitted that the country has repatriated Islamic State members from a prison camp in Syria with the assistance of Germany.
Finnish politician Laura Huhtasaari told the European Parliament she envies Britain, and that the EU should “look in the mirror” to discover why it wants to leave and countries like Norway and Switzerland have no interest in joining.
Around a quarter of Finland’s total coronavirus cases have been detected in people who are not native Finnish speakers, according to the National Institute of Health and Welfare (THL).
Police in Finland have busted a sex trafficking ring led by migrants that operated in at least twelve major cities and trafficked women from Romania, forcing them to work as prostitutes.
Burger King has launched a new advertising campaign in Finland featuring its eponymous mascot sharing a deep kiss with Ronald McDonald, along with the English slogan ‘Love Conquers All’.
Finnish police say that two people were involved in the attempted murder of Pekka Kataja, an activist who works for the populist-conservative Finns Party (PS).
Finnish police have uncovered a migrant smuggling ring that used passports as well as fake documents to smuggle migrants into the UK.
Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó invited ambassadors from the Scandinavian countries to a meeting after their foreign ministers signed a letter slamming Hungary’s Wuhan coronavirus response. Szijjártó accused Denmark, Finland, Iceland Norway and Sweden of “spreading false news” about Hungary’s coronavirus lockdown
Malta’s ambassador to Finland has had to resign his post after saying that Germany’s Angela Merkel had “fulfilled Hitler’s dream” to “control Europe” on social media.
The worldwide debate about how to best manage the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic grew even more complicated on Wednesday when top World Health Organization official Dr. Mike Ryan, emergencies program executive director, praised Sweden as a “model” for other nations to follow. Sweden famously chose not to impose lockdowns or freeze their national economy as the United States and most other countries have.
President Donald Trump challenged reports on Thursday the Swedish response to the coronavirus represents a successful model.
The CEO of the Finnish Centre for Security of Supply has announced that the first order of respirators and medical equipment delivered from China does not pass European standards.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Police in southern Finland began Friday to enforce the new regulation aimed at ceasing all unnecessary human traffic to and from Uusimaa, the region that includes the Nordic nation’s capital, Helsinki.
Finland’s former President Martti Ahtisaari has been diagnosed with the Wuhan coronavirus just days after his wife had been confirmed to also be infected with the disease.
“Viruses do not recognise borders,” the former prime minister of Finland said as he bitterly complained that the UK was excluded from President Donald Trump’s 30-day U.S. European travel ban.
Finland’a millennial feminist-led government faces a vote of no confidence after pledging to send personnel to the Greek border — to help migrants claim asylum.
