The new Blue Future political party announced the date of its first party conference today, and a candidate for party Chairman.
The party, which has 20 MPs including five cabinet ministers in the government coalition, will hold a congress in…
The Centre Party’s candidate for the 2018 presidential elections, Matti Vanhanen has been hospitalised with a heart condition.
The announcement came on Vanhanen’s Facebook page, where he wrote that he has been in the hospital since Friday because of a cardiac…
A bid to enter the 2018 Presidential election race by veteran politician Paavo Väyrynen has hit a snag: he can’t get enough endorsements.
Candidates need 20,000 signatures from registered voters to be able to run – if they’re not already…
Finnish politician Mikko Kärnä (Centre) will publish the text of a parliamentary motion today which calls on MPs to recognize an independent Catalonia.
It’s a move which has brought applause and critiques; sparked a wave of international media stories of…
The ongoing turmoil in Spain over Catalan independence is being watched very carefully in the Åland Islands.
"I’d say what we learned from Catalonia is of course what we maybe already knew, the importance of keeping an independence process with…
The Blue Group of politicians who split from the Finns Party at the beginning of summer, has collected the 5,000 signatures of voters it needs to register as an official political party.
MP Sampo Terho says the Blues will lodge…
Finland’s government is facing a no confidence vote in parliament this afternoon, as five opposition parties unite around the subject of railway reform and proposed privatization measures for the railway monopoly VR.
At present, the government lead by Prime Minister…
The ‘Blue’ Parliamentary Group is getting closer to becoming a legitimate political party according to chairman Simon Elo.
They need the support of 5000 registered voters, and Elo reckons they’ve only got less than one hundred signatures still to find.
"As…
Finland’s 2018 Presidential election takes place in a little more than three months. So what’s the current state of play with candidates?
There are seven politicians who want to be Finland’s next President, but one of them is dominating the…
There’s a change in store for some key positions in the Finnish Parliament.
The moves have come about, because the Finns Party split in half over the summer, with 19 MPs forming a new ‘Blue Group’ in Parliament, while 16…
Li Andersson: ‘Coronavirus back-to-school discussion has moved on since spring’
Finnish students are heading back to school on Wednesday, after an unprecedented year that saw…
Finnish students are heading back to school on Wednesday, after an unprecedented year that saw classes suspended during the worst of the coronavirus epidemic…
Minister of Justice Anna-Maja Henriksson (RKP) was apparently caught out by a Monday night announcement from Minister of Family and Basic Services Krista Kiuru (SDP) that…
New testing regime, and fines or prison time for travelers who don’t self-isolate
Finland will introduce fines or even a possible three month prison sentence…