Finland to take 175 asylum seekers from Cyprus and other Med countries
Finland announced on Thursday it would relocate up to 175 asylum seekers from Cyprus, Greece, Malta and Italy, in a bid to facilitate their humanitarian...
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Finnish paper mill workers to strike as wage talks fail – union
Some 9,000 workers at Finnish paper mills will start a three-week strike on Monday after wage talks broke down, their labour union said in a...
Finnish Social Democrats and nationalist Finns Party nearly tied in election
By Anne Kauranen and Tarmo Virki HELSINKI, April 14 (Reuters) – Finland’s leftist Social Democrats and the nationalist Finns Party emerged nearly tied to win...
Italy’s Barella wary of Finland in Euro 2020 qualifier
Nicolo Barella believes Italy face a tricky start to their Euro 2020 qualifying campaign against Finland. The 22-year-old Cagliari midfielder is one of the newcomers...
Anastasiades to receive Finnish PM
President Nicos Anastasiades will on Sunday receive Finland’s Prime Minister Juha Sipilä in the run-up to the Finnish Presidency of the European Council during the...
First graders to get a little bit bigger
Raising the age children start school aims to boost results, but is there more that should be done? BY increasing the school starting age the...
EU lawmakers urge review of summer clock changes
EU lawmakers backed a motion on Thursday calling for an assessment of whether Europe should stop moving clocks forward and back between summer and winter...
Four killed as train collides with army vehicle in Finland
Four people were killed and several injured when a train crashed into an army truck during a military exercise in southern Finland on Thursday, police...
Moroccan teenager ‘admits killing two in Finland knife rampage’
A teenage Moroccan asylum seeker admitted on Tuesday killing two people and wounding eight in a knife attack in the Finnish city of Turku, his...
Finland attack suspect to appear in court, maybe via video link
An 18-year-old Moroccan asylum seeker will appear in court on Tuesday over a knife attack in the city of Turku that killed two women and...
Two dead, at least six hurt in knife attack in Finland (Update 1)
A man with a knife killed two people and wounded at least six in a stabbing rampage in a market square in the Finnish city...
Austria, Finland offer to host territory talks
Austria and Finland have offered to host discussions on territory between the island’s Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders, government spokesman Nicos Christodoulides said on Friday....
Finland sees propaganda attack from former master Russia
Finland is becoming increasingly worried about what it sees as Russian propaganda against it, including Russian questioning about the legality of its 1917 independence. The...
Estonia, Finland say Russia entered airspace before US defence pact (Update)
Estonia said a Russian jet violated its airspace on Friday, hours after neighbouring Finland said two similar planes passed over its territory as it prepared...
Five new ambassadors present their credentials
President Nicos Anastasiades on Monday received the credentials for the new ambassadors to Cyprus from Sweden, Finland, the Netherlands, Kuwait and Qatar during ceremonies at...
Cuba volleyball players found guilty of aggravated rape in Finland
Five volleyball players from the Cuban national team were found guilty on Tuesday of aggravated rape of a woman while they were in Finland in...
Paphos tourism and Cypriot food promoted in Finland to target visitors
A month-long campaign promoting Paphos and traditional Cypriot food will get underway in Finland on Friday, with prize holiday stays as an added incentive....
Fist-bump austerity exposes strains on Finland’s consensus model
If one fist bump could endanger Finland’s increasingly stressed tradition of consensus politics, then Prime Minister Juha Sipila and a cabinet colleague may just have...
‘Sick man of Europe’ Finland agonises over austerity
By Jussi Rosendahl and Anna Ercanbrack Finland was one of the toughest European critics of Greece during its debt crisis, chastising it for failing to...
