Site-seeing in Rovaniemi
A ride from city centre to Santa Claus Village and back for only €20. Call us at +358 4510 26112 Email: riderovaniemi@gmail.com
Published: 21:53 pm,Tuesday 15 September 2020
A conversation with Amartya Sen
Professor Amartya Sen is a leading economist in the world today. His outstanding contributions in economics range from the rather abstract theory of social choice to the concrete application of his own theory of famines to the Bangladesh famine in 1974. He has also pioneered a new approach
Published: 14:41 pm,Friday 29 May 2020
Ongoing social assistance reform aims to help most vulnerable people
I have launched a reform of the Act on Social Assistance and appointed a working group to carry it out. Now is the right time for reform. We have been gathering experiences from the transfer of basic social assistance to the Social Insurance Institution of Finland (Kela) over
Published: 12:56 pm,Wednesday 11 March 2020
Finland started preparing for the coronavirus disease before it hit the headlines
The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health is responsible for ensuring that Finland is prepared for both unexpected and gradually emerging situations that affect, or may affect, healthcare and social welfare services one way or another. Preparedness is something that is being done all the time even though it
Published: 01:08 am,Saturday 11 January 2020
The European Union on the eve of a new era
Finland’s Presidency of the Council accompanied the European Union on the path towards a new decade and a socially fair and environmentally sustainable future. The new European Parliament, the new Commission under Ursula von der Leyen and the new President of the European Council Charles Michel all started their
Published: 21:52 pm,Monday 2 December 2019
Finland punches above its weight in polar regions
The first of December marks the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Antarctic Treaty. In the early 20th century, seven countries (Argentina, Australia, Chile, France, New Zealand, Norway and the United Kingdom) staked a claim to some part of the territory of Antarctica. Some of those territorial
Published: 14:46 pm,Thursday 12 September 2019
Preparing for hybrid threats in the financial sector
A well-oiled financial system keeps the wheels of the economy turning. This means that a strike against critical points in the financial system could bring society to its knees. Finland’s Presidency of the Council of the EU aims to put the issue of new threats to the financial
Published: 03:39 am,Saturday 14 September 2019
Rohingya refugees must leave Bangladesh
During a discussion meeting between a foreign Ambassador from a very powerful country and the Foreign Secretary of Bangladesh, the Ambassador asked Bangladesh’s Foreign Secretary ‘what is the future plan of the government regarding the permanent solution to the Rohingya crisis.’ The concerned ambassador met the Foreign Secretary
Published: 22:29 pm,Saturday 29 December 2018
The Future of Euro and EU
With the continuous outpouring of bleak economic data from the EU, the ironies of Brexit and recent Yellow Vests and other much more right wing anti-EU movements, many are justified in expressing deep pessimism bordering on despair about the prospects for the sustainability of the monetary union. Some
Published: 01:17 am,Saturday 31 August 2019
Rohingyas Should Not Get a Wrong Message
Two years back when the Rohingya refugees from Myanmar’s Rakhine province (the military junta renamed it as Arakan) began to enter Bangladesh in thousands to escape a planned genocide and ethnic cleansing in the province by the Myanmar army and fundamentalist Buddhists under the monk Ashin Wirathu, the
Published: 21:54 pm,Thursday 11 October 2018
Successful climate policy requires unanimity from parties
The special report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published on October 8 has provoked well-deserved discussion on the mitigation of climate change. The report emphasises the need to limit global warming to 1.5°C instead of the previous target of 2°C. A 1.5°C increase in temperature
