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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…

Myllypuro in east Helsinki is the unlikely setting for a sports milestone this weekend. When the Finland men’s rugby national team take on Norway, there will be a female referee in charge. It’s the first time a woman has ever refereed…

Helsinki Rescue Department is making progress in its efforts to attract more firefighter students from diverse backgrounds. Until recently, the capital city had no firemen with minority backgrounds, but that’s now slowly changing. "We partly succeeded" Matti Waitinen, Principal of Helsinki…

A group of refugees are the first to try a new way to integrate into life in Finland. Through the Finnish Refugee Council Pakolaisapu they will receive Finnish lessons, and separately, a class in their own language to help them navigate…

New research shows that tax increases on alcohol on both sides of the Baltic Sea won’t be enough to stop Finns going to Estonia to buy cheap booze. The study was commissioned by the Finnish Grocery Trade Association PTY and…

Southwest Finland has seen a jobs boom in recent years, but it’s not in the sectors anyone could have predicted. Even ten years ago, few economists would have said that manufacturing would be bringing good jobs to Finland. The future…

NATO’s Secretary General and the EU’s Foreign Minister are among the guests in Helsinki today, at the official opening of the new European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats – or Hybrid CoE for short. Jens Stoltenberg and Federica…

Jaana Laine is expecting to see malnourished mothers, under-weight infants, and possibly an outbreak of cholera when she arrives at a refugee camp on the Bangladesh-Myanmar border today. It’s a far cry from the pristine hospital environment the Lohja midwife…

Parliament’s Executive Director says that criticism of its practice of destroying visitor logs at the end of each day cannot be taken lightly. "It is still harming the parliament’s reputation, that has to be admitted" Pertti Rauhio tells News Now Finland. Rauhio’s…

The dust has barely settled on vote counting from yesterday’s general election in Germany, and diplomats, politicians and analysts in Helsinki and Berlin are trying to figure out what it means for the two countries. Some experts believe that a…