You cannot make this up. National Coalition Party Prime Minister Petteri Orpo’s government plans to offer an hour-long anti-racism training for the government. The training has been postponed to after the municipal and regional elections of April. “It will be an intensive training of about an hour, including discussion,” Katriina Nousiainen, project manager and senior…
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Prime Minister Petteri Orpo, the facilitator of Finland’s hard right who concocts political mirages and lies
One of the matters that has amazed me about National Coalition Party Prime Minister Petteri Orpo is his alternative truth about non-existent the threat of the hard right in Finland. Despite the racism and far right scandals that have eaten away at his government’s credibility, Orpo actually believes that parties will change if you go…
Ahti Tolvanen*: The Finnish-Russian border quagmire
It is hard to make any sense out of the on-and-off Russian border closings. Whether these will have any real effect in the long run on numbers of asylum seekers remains to be seen. The way the war is going in Ukraine this winter almost guarantees an influx of hundreds or thousands more from that…
The Finnish-Russian border is not an open-and-shut case
Article 3 – border control measures must be without prejudice to the rights ofrefugees and other people requesting international protection, in particular asregards the principle of non-refoulement. European Convention on Human Rights Perussuomalaiset (PS)* Finnish Interior Minister Mari Rantnanen called herself Tuesday a “tough border lady” on A-studio. After opening two border checkpoints Thursday at…
Racism and xenophobia will turn Finland into a Nordic Hungary
Since 2011, Finland has found a powerful political force in racism. If the country heads down the path of Hungary, it will do so with fearmongering about migrants and how such people abuse and use social welfare at the cost of white Finns. Even if the Perussuomalaiset (PS)* don’t hide their disdain for migrants and…