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4 days ago · Significant changes to Finland's general housing allowance will come into effect on 1 January 2025, reducing or eliminating benefits for many recipients. These reforms, approved by Parliament, are aimed at reducing state expenditure and will introduce new asset limits, remove support for homeowners, and revise maximum housing costs for certain municipalities.
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Dec 8, 2024 · Cultural news from Helsinki - Finland. The Helsinki Art Museum (HAM) will open a major exhibition, Tove Jansson – Paradise, on October 25, 2024, celebrating the visionary work of Finnish artist Tove Jansson.This monumental exhibition, running until April 6, 2025, coincides with the 80th anniversary of the Moomins and showcases Jansson’s public murals and commissioned works, many of which ...
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Dec 10, 2024 · A new survey by the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health reveals that nearly two out of three people working in Finland's film and TV industry experience psychological symptoms. This figure is three times higher than the average for the Finnish working-age population. Conducted as part of the Avaus Sustainability Project, the survey gathered over 600 responses from industry professionals ...
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News from Finland's politics. The Swedish People's Party (SFP) in Espoo has announced the formation of a multicultural committee aimed at engaging immigrants and non-native Finnish or Swedish speakers in local and national politics. The initiative, led by Joni AlWindi, seeks to foster dialogue between diverse social groups and encourage greater …
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Jan 1, 1970 · Chronically ill children in Helsinki now have the opportunity to participate in classroom activities from home through the use of a school robot. The city has introduced three new robots at the start of the academic year, allowing students unable to attend school due to health risks to engage in lessons, answer questions, …
NATO is not the solution to Finland’s security concerns, but part of ...
Apr 25, 2022 · Russian invasion of Ukraine shocked Finnish people’s sense of security. Having had their own wars with Russia before, Finns started to picture Russian tanks rolling down the streets in Helsinki. Iodine tablets were sold out from drug stores, queues for passport renewals were prolonged and record number of Finns signed up for military training.
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Entrepreneurs and small-to-medium-sized business owners in Finland have grown increasingly dissatisfied with the government as the year progresses, according to a recent survey. While 49% of respondents expressed satisfaction with the government coalition, only 41% were satisfied with its actions. In June, those figures stood at 60% and 54%, respectively.
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6 days ago · THE SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY has held on to the top spot in the latest opinion poll commissioned by YLE.. The Finnish public broadcasting company reported last week that popular support for the opposition party has fallen by 0.3 percentage points to 24.0 per cent since early November. With the National Coalition and Finns Party either treading water or sinking, though, it remains comfortably ...
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4 days ago · The Finnish Parliament has approved a legislative change that will stop the payment of national pensions to recipients living outside Finland in EU and EEA countries, Switzerland, and the UK, effective from 1 February 2025. This decision aims to reduce government spending and redefine the national pension as a minimum benefit, available only to residents of Finland.
The thrill of the game: Finns' stakes on sports - Helsinki Times
In the heart of the Kazakh steppe, men on horseback clash in a dramatic display of strength and agility. Riders from two teams—one in blue, the other in red—jostle for possession of a leather-wrapped carcass, not of a real goat, but a synthetic stand-in filled with material to match the weight of a traditional goat carcass, roughly 30 to 40 kilograms.