Dual citizens ineligible for military jobs

Starting Monday individuals who hold multiple citizenships will be prevented from working at military posts in the Finnish Defence Forces, except with special permission, reported the national broadcaster Yle.

This comes after the revision of law governing the Defence Forces and the National Defence University which only allows those with solely Finnish citizenship to hold military positions or officer posts.

According to the report, the law stipulates that candidates must be screened to make sure they don’t have “foreign nationality or other foreign ties that might endanger security, the national defence or Finland’s international relationships.”

The Border Guard was also to have been covered by the law, but last autumn it opted out, said the report.