Finland International

A small group of protesters in central Helsinki put on a noisy demonstration as India’s Foreign Minister paid his first official visit to Finland. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar arrived in Helsinki on Thursday night and his Friday programme included bilateral talks with President Sauli…

Universities say a backlog of unprocessed residence permits for international students is causing reputational damage to Finland’s higher education system, and hurts their chances of being able to recruit talented students from outside the EU in future. New information supplied…

President Sauli Niinistö is going to the USA at the beginning of October for a meeting with US President Donald Trump. The meeting is set to take place in Washington DC on 2nd October. According to the President’s office, the pair will be…

Prime Minister Antti Rinne (SDP) paid his first official working visit to Paris today to meet French President Emmanuel Macron. Brexit – the departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union – dominated talks between the pair, and they said time…

Finland’s Europe Minister has described Britain’s chaotic Brexit strategy as a "rather bleak situation." Writing on Twitter from Strasbourg at the start of a European Parliament plenary session to discuss Britain’s departure from the European Union, Tytti Tuppurainen (SDP) shared her…

The last email Stephen Abayateye received from his case worker at Migri said he’d get a decision on a Finnish residence permit within the month. That was five weeks ago. The previous emails he sent bounced back with an out of office…

A piece of stone imbued with mystical powers is to be returned from the National Museum of Finland in Helsinki to Namibia, where it was appropriated by Finnish missionaries more than a hundred years ago. This week, the small stone…

President Sauli Niistö has said that "nothing is more valuable than peace" and that Finland supports Ukraine in "solidarity", even as it’s locked in a slow-burning ongoing conflict with Russia. Niinistö made the comments during a two-day official visit to Ukraine where…

The number of people from Turkey arriving in Finland to claim asylum in Finland has grown to the point that Turks were the second biggest number of asylum seekers in 2018. According to new figures published by Lännen Media, 283…

A new survey carried out for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs finds the majority of Russians have a favourable attitude towards Finland and Finns – especially St. Petersburg residents. It was the second time such an attitude survey was carried…