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[4] Finland has adopted a Housing First policy, whereby social services assign homeless individuals homes first, and issues like mental health and substance abuse are treated second. [5] [6] Since its launch in 2008, the number of homeless people in Finland has decreased by roughly 30%, [1] though other reports indicate it could be up to 50%. [7]
Finland, which shares a 1,340-km (830-mile) border with Russia, joined NATO last year in a historic policy shift brought on by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and the war has strained ties between ...
A second knife attack in less than a week in a shopping centre in the northern Finnish city of Oulu appears to have been racially motivated, police said on Wednesday, triggering condemnation from ...
A persistent myth claims that Finns would have the fourth most firearms in the world per capita (right after United States, Yemen, Switzerland), with around 45.3 guns for every 100 people. [14] This false number rises from the Small Arms Survey, which claimed in 2007 that there would be 800 000 unregistered guns in addition to the registered ...
3 November – The Tampere Lenin Museum, the last remaining museum outside Russia dedicated to the life of Vladimir Lenin, closes down. [12]18 November – A section of the C-Lion1 submarine communications cable running under the Baltic Sea between Finland and Germany is cut off the Swedish coast in what German authorities suspect as an act of sabotage.
Parliamentary elections were held in Finland on 2 April 2023 to elect members of the Parliament of Finland.. Following the 2019 election, the Social Democratic Party (SDP) formed a governing coalition with the Centre Party, Greens, Left Alliance, and the Swedish People's Party, with Antti Rinne serving as the prime minister of Finland.
Movement Now [2] (MN; Finnish: Liike Nyt [ˈliːke nyt], Liik; Swedish: Rörelse Nu, RN) is an economically liberal political party in Finland. [3] It was founded by then-National Coalition Party (NCP) member of parliament Harry Hjallis Harkimo and six other people as a political movement. The movement was registered as a party on 14 November ...
Current events; Random article; ... Category: Social issues in Finland. 3 languages. ... Animal welfare and rights in Finland (2 C, 2 P) D.