A fraction of the wards they sometimes even become kingmakers when the big parties they dont want to work with each other so they they just go and collect the small parties together and form a government like like right now but the finnish politics is somehow you you could even say boring a lot doesnt happen in the pali i love the strays a lot doesnt. But a lot has happened well for because i think it must be one of the most reported events and to lashley to have this this new cabinet led by the young woman but this is a huge story internationally yes it is that there is like i think feel and has never got more attention to its new government than now and mainly because these are women and these are young women most of them then again you know finland is a Consensus Society there was. The research that the. Researchers examine the variety of opinion within the finnish parties and they came out with the result that if you look at the diversity of opinion in of the finished parties from the right to the left they will all fit into one party one swedish parties diversity of opinion and this is why the has been like a for a country like finland which is only 5000000 people and basically in my opinion of. A new unity government. Were of the parties could always be part of the government would be much better solution than this already forming the government because they really dont differ in opinion as much as you know they could they could handle even if they look different policy opinions of the simply have fights because theyve been the last Prime Minister fell because of a very fractious industrial dispute which turned into an argument between the social democrats in the center part of that thats you know thats a bit harder in finnish politics you youre not allowed to lie knowingly so if a politician if a finnish politician. Tells a lie and hes caught he or she is caught then thats the end of the game for this specifically telling a lie to parliament or is it just word generally this is what is different with the finnish politics because the integrity of the politicians is really important and the previous Prime Minister he did lie to the to the Parliament Land solace was about the post office it was about the post office and strike and how it was handled so that was the issue not not the strike itself or the you know how it was handled but how do you it dissipate the saddam or even under a new Coalition Government will tackle for example the the post as a something that shell be able to to settle reasonably quickly over libya thought and her side as well well that is already gone and put it behind and you should also understand that the reason that this became a big bigger than normal crisis for the government was that the center party was one of the biggest parties in the coalition they had just had a change of leader so catholic woman who became the leader of the center party she also wanted to show some power and reshuffle the government and get a better position for herself and thats why this was basically she was the one who said that we dont trust 3 in there anymore so im interested from europe opinion. Do you think having the cabinet dominated by women will lead to more consensus or will it just be years as Fracture Service power struggles between the parties as the Previous Administration you know interestingly in finland there is this gender issue has been ever been that important and even today its not really that important but i think one of the biggest problem of this government and the Prime Minister is lack of experience you know its it has been portrayed as a very positive issue that these are young and these are women and the world is congratulating finland for that and of course its a positive issue if they did have the competence but unfortunately or naturally you know being young is also means you have less experience and this is going to be a problem so i would be very surprised if this government would still be in place in one year now where you see the Prime Ministers the experience the thought of sex or Civil Service is this something you would say for an inexperienced male politician if youre the new male Prime Minister 34. 00 would you be is doubtful about. A little level of experience that that person had oh absolutely yes. You know we had the the the 2nd youngest before marrying the 2nd youngest Prime Minister we had a score in the beginning of the ninetys he was 36 when he became Prime Minister he also was quite an experienced and he came during a very difficult time it wasnt there was an International Financial crisis but he made all the wrong choices you know this bite the advice of economists. He the value it at the finish currency against other currencies it was before the e. U. And before the euro and at the time when a lot of businesses they had hard currency loans and people in fear that their their homos were in dollars or german market. And he devalue it at the finish finish currency and thousands tens of thousands of businesses went bankrupt a lot of people lost everything many people committed suicide and even today this is very interesting because one of the issues that today in finland is being discussed is the lack of babies you know people are not making babies that the production is 1. 00 babies per one adult and the research is wondred research the reasons why. Young people are not making babies they realize that many of these people grew up during a school or has time. And they still remember the hardship and sudden change of fortune which has has you know traumatized them for life. Voters are blamed for many things but the sun usually to be blamed for lack of fertility and a number of births in the column but surely sally molly knowingly the president of illegal spears male predecessor of 20 years ago would be very careful not to repeat the state i certainly hope so and i want to reiterate and. Strongly say that. That is really doesnt matter women have had many important roles and for me personally it doesnt matter if a Decision Maker is female or male but i think there should be a competence for the job and for the responsibility that will of course as a newspaper editor you must congratulate the new Prime Minister who generating all this wonderful until last will copy and inquiries and interest. Has been a positive news for finland i certainly hope it will continue and she will do well and she will become an example for others but time will show of course one in. Portent the issue about finland and finlands politics is that finland is a country that could function without the government for a very very long time because the Civil Service would run 30 yes Civil Servants there is a highly experienced highly of reliable on corrupt Civil Servant layer who actually they are the ones who are running everything and one of the things they do is when a new minister comes they brief the minister they tell her what you can do what you cant do and of course the ministers want to. You know run their political Agenda Program but its very much the Civil Servants who will run everything this is an International Problem not the finish problem only because the elected officials you know for any other job you need to have a competence for example son a marine would not get the job in any of the mysteries based on her c. V. To lead a small section of that the ministry what because she is an elected official shes been given their 1st she was a transport minister and now she is the Prime Minister. It doesnt make sense i mean there should be even inside the more crossing there should be some sort of competence level requirement when it comes to high responsibility jobs because sometimes the consequences could be really far reaching. Coming up after the break we continue our discussion on from east politics will the new year bring new challenges. Seem wrong why dont we all just dont all. Get to shape out just to become educated and gain from it because the trail. When so many find themselves worlds apart. She stood up for common ground. Time after time called her ration to repeat the same mantra sustainability its very important its accelerating the transition to sustainable transport sustainability stay number man at a more equitable and sustainable well. They claim that production is completely hamas. Because. It does not the present Companies Want us to feel good about buying their products while the damage is being done far away and this is a canal this must be going to an even and i mean look. This is the move and news that we didnt even and im stunned to see many understood superman. In the United States president ial candidates debate the future of the u. S. And the world. Max kaiser and Stacy Herbert dig into the burning questions of this election cycle one celtic every week. Tax student debt trade was corporate money universal basic income and more catch up with whats front running this sunday exclusively on r. T. Welcome back to the hotel camp one of the grant who tells a europe 1st built during the belly pork and helsinki society to a great extent grew up around this would tell just as funny society has been built round the consensus and its political system we continue our discussion of what the new year in office for french politics. Things have been rubbing along quite well for london been recently voted as the the happiest country on earth. A United Nations agency so if the Civil Service according to yourself is running the happiest country are left to the must be doing a pretty good job job of course there is a lot of debate about those results when you when they ask talk to people are you really the happiest people and people say i dont know i i dont think of myself as a happy person if you put a camera in the center of which would detect peoples emotion happiness would not be the main or number one its not because or have the mufflers or because you know even for scott it is quite parker yeah. Yes but the Village People are very content and they are extremely obedient to art auriti electricity enough the other happy countries on the planet tend to be the nordic neighbors or the globe but thats of the self is interesting because obviously finland is not as rich as norway as its called of the book but you youve put your neighbors at the post to become the happiest country theres an accolade you must use surely well the the nordic welfare system has been functioning well and it has been functioning well for a long time and it it it has been because they have they have taken this model from each other and it has been a semi socialist system government owns a lot of companies and resources instax in people high but then giving them Many Services for free and so on and equality has been more or less in place so that also comes through the education part of you know because finland has been many times announced as one of the best Education Systems in the world but if you look at it is. It comes down very much to the quality of people because all these kids when they go to school they none of them is hungry none of them are having lack of material problems their health care is free they have been checked since they were born for free and so on and so on so basically that the last layer which is the learning and education that really doesnt differ that much. From other well being countries i saw a comparison recently between finland on the one hand and america on the other by a couple of journalists and writers one of whom was american who heard of who was phyllis that molly a little wrote last to go pointing out that although they paid much higher tax and phil and they went through the whole range of things that they didnt have to worry about when not in finland because gray anxiety when they were in new york you for example childcare for example the Education System for example college fees and what you went through all these things are provided as part of the the finnish welfare system and there of course was a different balance between types but the point that they made was protect the interest and it was the lack of anxiety and fretting about these major the bills that were looming for families and the you york when they were in finland staying in finland little of the worry about thats right thats right you know in finland the population pays taxes to the government and government they scare of all of this and usually everything hes high quality child care schools Public Schools are very High Quality Health CarePublic Health care is very high quality in general i think one of the problems one coffin that is compared to other countries is that as more well being a country like finland with 5000000 people which would fully fit in many cities in the world is comp. 2 whole countries like if you compare it like indonesia or china or even the us when in reality if you want to get more accurate comparison results you should compare finland to a world the city or or the well being part of a city then you would get a better result because here the quality is in this a small population you know its good but it has its limits if you would add 102150000 people who would need social care the system would break. It wont work any more that brings us on to some of the the challenges that. Politics will face the new government will face how would you have allies and what are your readers tell you a boat the issues i mean is immigration for example is. An issue which is growing in importance in finland the question of the new language obligations of terms of sweet this is that something has been resisted by some say x. Is the rise of the the populace rate to challenge the us political or for those in finland yes these are finland doesnt have many Huge National level problems immigration has always been a topic in politics the swedish language which you mentioned which has always been a 2nd official language of finland but now. One of the Coalition Parties the Swedish Peoples Party who actually runs on the agenda of swedish language they want to make it compulsory part of final exams of high schools which of course people dont like that but i think the there is not the big reaction because people know that the next government which most probably will be the right right wing parties will be a right Wing Coalition to the place to the left same 2 coalition you have in the present moment yes i i think that most probably if nothing happens the next Prime Minister will be the leader of the finns party which is growing in popularity. The parties in finland really theyre the diversity of their opinions is not really far from each other its they are not really that much against each other there are a few issues that they disagree but on most of other issues out of on the welfare state and. On major issues they agree immigration is one of the issues that you know if you go to the fin spotting which is on the right they disagree they want much less immigration are the rules but the left says you know we can have more people coming like ceasar i want to ask your question. Show you can judge as a journalist. Journalistic factual answer and that is for your readership in the Helsinki Times if they were asked to put their level of interest was in having the the youngest Prime Minister in the planet on the one hand and finland qualifying for the 1st time in ages for the european championships and the other then what would be what would be paid would depict the football or the politics. I would have you know if i would answer instinctively i would say football but when i looked at the statistics before i come to this show actually we got the most hits 4 for sun a marines governments but there are those very few societies in there which can proclaim that the political system is proving more interesting than the Football League yeah this moment that least and you know in 2 months it could be different but lets discuss like you so whats no. At all to celebrate the the degree of of interest until lastly the new Prime Minister this is it could be toasted for all the copy it provides journalists abroad or a quick. Scottish tradition as whisky only scottish. Whiskey Scotch Whisky only one of these finnish splits or whatever scotch whiskey in the quick and past and all internals thank you very much alexis thank you survives thank you. Im no delighted to be joined by one of finlands leading educationalists professor in the still professor in the storm im interested in the new Prime Minister salam alan 34 years old the youngest Prime Minister in the world old amount of International Attention leading a coalition of 5 parties dominated by young women and yet coming in when the previous call ition the Prime Minister fell because of arguments flack just nature how do you think its going to address a key issue wait for this education my feeling is that. This young women in the government are the best thing that has happened in finnish politics in a long long time and i expect that they will show a capability of going beyond these fractions and to see that the common good education is something that everybody has access to and which supports everybodys flourishing and i dont think that there is a better chance to build this kind of dialogue and even unanimous the future oriented effort than this government and this situation with education these government faces. Tasks it has to actually expand education it has to mind the fact that its been underfunded over the past 10 years by previous governments these are challenges but i think that this government should be able to do it and the Prime Ministers own salamone the 1st member of her family to go through University Education comes through a Rainbow Family but one of these going to be strengths as well as see as she tackles the the challenges on what must be the the key subject of education yes absolutely these young women not only son a marine but also at least 2 other Party Leaders who are in the same age range and female in the green party and the left wing Party Leaders they all share this experience that this kind of public Education System is not only in this strength of our country but our personal strength so i think its a its a very important unifying factor actually but the spite the optimism which understandably is this new coalition firmament. Will feel under pressure from the populace right. In finland as some else than many. Countries for example regalia against the the teaching of swedish im in for the schools would you assess that as a danger to the break with the consensus on education yeah there is that risk i think partly because they can kind of rely on spontaneous support from many Young Students themselves who are so immersed in the world of the social media that they think that the only english swedish is obsolete and you know it takes a special effort to make the case and to show that mastering multiple languages is a great asset and i do believe that because you know that these basic provision of swedish language in the finnish side its a constitutional issue that it cannot be very easily attacked but there is that wield to do that in those political quarters that you mentioned and thats one of the challenges that this government will have to face because at the moment this cold winds around the world. For nationalism and i would say quite the ultra right wing populism. Were not immune to those professor during the storm represent with the liquid this is scots go it loving cup whisky only Scotch Whisky that is a liquid but take the. Oh you round and toast continuing success for they said thank you so much this is this is for the new year. Ironically for a young woman from the social media age sila modern has come to power under fairly traditional circumstances that is a fractious industrial dispute and beckoning between the Coalition Partners in the finnish government over the world as a whole looks on in wonder and a country now led by a generation of young women and a cabinet dominated by women that is general approval it looks like a departure from business as usual but in a very real sense surely this new lineup this new Political Leadership offers the opportunity for continuity in finland to reestablish the social and economic model that served this country well in the past and may well do so in times to come so for myself im tired all the show its good bye for now and have a good new year. You know world big new law and conspiracy its time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that midstream refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door. 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