Right after the USA-Germany game, Helsinki football team HJK coach Mika Lehkosuo sticks his foot in his mouth by quoting a Nazi phrase, arbeit macht frei, when asked how the German team played. The Nazi slogan, which means “work makes you free,” was found at the gates of a number of concentration camps like Auschwitz during…
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Finland and Europe must not be lured into populism and xenophobia
Denials by party leaders like Timo Soini that the Perussuomalaiset (PS) isn’t a xenophobic party, and the meek response of Finland’s mainstream parties to such a threat, speak volumes of the present state of this country. Who helped the political careers of xenophobes like Jussi Halla-aho, James Hirvisaari and others? Soini and the PS. Why…