Politics

With an eye ahead to next year’s national general election and a European Parliament vote, a number of prominent politicians are giving a thumbs up – or down – to the idea of running for office. This morning, seasoned politician Liisa…

Two Finns Party members of parliament say they planned to live from time to time in a small sauna they rented, and claimed as their Helsinki home-from-home. In a new statement to parliament, MP Ville Vähämäki says that he rented…

Finland’s two hundred members of parliament get back to work this week after their summer break. With just eight months still to go until the next planned general election, none of the parties in parliament are making any attempts to…

A months-long academic investigation has found that much of the work Laura Huhtasaari submitted for her masters degree was copied from someone else. The University of Jyväskylä launched an investigation in May and appointed an independent expert from Helsinki University, Professor Patrik Scheinin,…

The Blue Reform political party has started lining up its members of parliament to fight next year’s election. Defence Minister Juusi Niinistö is the latest high profile Blue politician to throw his hat into the ring for the party which…

Two new biographies of Sauli Niinistö are in Finnish bookshops this week, released just before the President’s 70th birthday. One book, ‘Sauli Niinistö – Lord of Mäntyniemi’ – is written by two Aamulehti journalists. The other, titled ‘Sauli Niinistö -…

Finnish President Sauli Niinistö was admitted to hospital on Tuesday for what his office described as "a small surgical procedure". It comes less than 24 hours after Niinistö hosted Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump at for a summit…

Two Finnish government ministers have been forced to clarify that controversial comments by Foreign Minister Timo Soini (Blue) are not official government policy. On Sunday, Soini wrote a blog titled "Dirty Water Source" about Ireland’s referendum to change their constitution and…

The University of Jyväskylä has decided to start a new preliminary investigation into plagiarism accusations against Finns Party vice chair, and former presidential candidate, Laura Huhtasaari. "It is in the interests of society, the scientific community and researchers that all doubts…

Veteran Finnish politician Paavo Väyrynen (Centre) has been given the green light to come back to parliament, and take his constituency seat on 12th June. Parliament’s Secretary General Maija-Leena Paavola said that experts concluded there was nothing stopping him returning, after he gave…