For nine years, the happiest country in the world is now facing big cuts. Finland's public debt has reached 90,3 percent of GDP, while military and energy costs are rising. Before the elections, the question is no longer whether there will be savings, but who will pay the bill: healthcare, social protection or pensions?
Happiness in Finland is not a miraculous achievement or elation, it is a feeling that the system exists, it serves the citizens, society and institutions are functional and without corruption, the security system protects all citizens, not only the political powerful. Happiness is actually a civil society built on freedom, equality and fraternity
Niklas Lindqvist, Ambassador of Finland to Serbia, visited the Inspira Group in Subotica, where he met with the company's management and learned about the development of one of the largest digital business systems created in Serbia
Extremely low temperatures are recorded throughout Europe, and in Finnish Lapland the mercury in the thermometer dropped to -39 degrees Celsius.
Running, swimming, cycling to work. The President of Finland, Akeksander Stub, uses his personal example to promote the motto that a healthy body has a healthy mind
80 years ago, the Moomins, a symbol of Finnish identity, were born, a family invented by Tuve Jansson in order to cope with the depression during the Second World War.
Undersea cables were damaged in the Baltic Sea, and the focus of the investigation is an oil tanker that could belong to Russia's so-called "dark fleet".
How is it that Finland is always at the top of the list of the happiest countries? The search for answers takes a long time
NATO, under the name "Dynamic Front 25", is conducting the largest series of artillery exercises in Europe ever. It begins in Finland on November 4 with the military exercise "Lightning Strike 24"
One child was killed and two were seriously injured in a shooting at a school in Finland, police said. The victim and the wounded are 12 years old, as is the attacker who was arrested
"Does anyone in Helsinki want to spit on beggars and beat Niger children today?" is one of the comments from 2008, which was written on the Internet by the Finnish Minister of Finance Rika Pura and Deputy Prime Minister. A member of the ultra-right and anti-immigrant party admitted to writing these comments. She warned that "archaeologists" can find more such comments on the Internet and said that she no longer thinks so
The Hungarian Parliament will vote on Finland's membership in NATO, and Turkish President Erdogan has announced that they will also start the ratification process. Sweden's candidacy is still uncertain
Many Russians are currently enjoying their holidays in Finland. One of the most popular tourist attractions is a dam. But there they are greeted with the Ukrainian national anthem every day
A Finnish private brewery has produced a NATO beer in honor of its country's decision to become part of the alliance. The owner of the brewery says that the new beer has a taste of security, with a touch of freedom
After Poland and Bulgaria, Finland is the third country to which Gazprom has suspended the supply of gas because it does not pay for it in rubles. This Russian condition was accepted by Germany, Italy, France, Austria, Hungary, Slovakia and North Macedonia. Serbia is in the group of countries that Russia does not (yet) consider hostile
With the entry of Sweden and Finland into NATO, Moscow will experience another heavy defeat - the most important justification for the attack on Ukraine was to prevent that country from joining NATO, which would bring the Alliance to the Russian border itself, but NATO is still coming to the borders of Russia, and that without a shot being fired. And the world is thus one step closer to a potential direct conflict between the Alliance and Russia, and therefore a global catastrophe
Two countries claim that Santa Claus lives with them. We are talking about Finland and Canada, two territories located in the far north, known for their icy expanses, so both fit into the frosty atmosphere.
