Juha Pantzar, the head of the Guarantee Foundation, stated to YLE on Monday that the recent cuts in the housing allowance will likely lead to longer graduation times for students.
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The Finnish public is nonetheless fairly widely behind the labour movement as it continues to express its opposition to the labour market reforms and social security cuts pursued by the government, Helsingin Sanomat wrote on Saturday.
Vantaa, Helsinki and Oulu registered the sharpest year-on-year drops in house prices, according to preliminary data released by Statistics Finland on Thursday, 28 March. In Vantaa, the prices of old dwellings in housing companies fell by as much as 10.4 per cent from February 2023.
Proposed by the Finnish government as a means to tackle weaponised immigration on the border between Finland and Russia, the law would inevitably result in situations where border officials must act in violation of their official duty and expose themselves to criminal charges, argue three legal experts from the Finnish Border Guard.