6 Breaking News found.
  • Mar 17, 2023

    Despite suspending negotiations with Sweden, Turkey now says it is ready to approve Finland's bid to join NATO, an approval likely to be formally announced Friday when Finnish President Sauli Niinisto travels to Istanbul to meet with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. On Wednesday Erdogan had responded...

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  • Jan 04, 2023

    HELSINKI (Sputnik) - Finland will impose restrictions for Chinese tourists due to the COVID-19 situation in China if no measures are proposed at the European level, Finnish Minister for Family Affairs and Social Services Krista Kiuru said. Earlier, European Commission spokesman Tim McPhie said at a...

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  • The Finnish government has announced on Thursday that it has proposed a temporary windfall tax on profits from the country's electricity companies as part of a European Union response to soaring power costs. The proposed 30% tax would apply to any profits exceeding a 10% return on capital in 2023, w...

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  • A corruption scandal is currently rocking the European Union. As Statista's Martin Armstrong notes, Greek politician Eva Kaili, vice-president of the European Parliament , was charged with corruption in a case linked to Qatar and imprisoned on Sunday in Brussels, along with three other people. The i...

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  • Dec 02, 2022

    Finish prime minister Sanna Marin has called for Europe to build its own defence capabilities in the wake of the war in Ukraine, saying that without US help it is not resilient enough. “We should make sure that we are stronger,” Marin said in Sydney on Friday. “And I’ll be brutally honest with you, ...

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  • Nov 25, 2022

    In October, food prices in Finland saw a 15.9-percent year-on-year jump and are rising at a rate unseen since the energy crisis of the Seventies. The inflation, fueled by soaring food and energy prices, is expected to continue for several months to come, with no signs of a slowdown in sight.   As t...

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