Swedish PM: NATO Membership Would ‘Destabilize’ Situation in Europe
Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson said she will not be pursuing an application for her country to join NATO.

Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson said she will not be pursuing an application for her country to join NATO.

Finland’s parliament discussed the country looking to join that NATO alliance, with the left-wing Prime Minister brushing the matter off.

Concern over a broader conflict has led Finns to buy large quantities of anti-radiation iodine tablets and to prepare a thousand beds for fleeing Ukrainians as Russia threatens consequences if the country joins NATO.

Finland has admitted they were forced to call back unvaccinated nurses a week after banning unjabbed staff from frontline work.

Canadian inspired freedom convoys have spread into France, where a convoy against coronavirus restrictions is planned in Paris on Saturday.

Finland’s Olympic Ice Hockey is accusing China of violating the human rights of athletes after one of his players tested positive for the virus

Canada’s Freedom Convoy movement has officially gone global after vehicles streamed into the centre of Finland’s capital on Friday.

Finland’s Prime Minister Sanna Marin has announced that the country will be lifting all Wuhan coronavirus restrictions by mid-February as the country starts easing some restrictions this week. The Finnish Prime Minister stated on Monday that all coronavirus restrictions would

Christian Democrat former government minister Päivi Räsänen is being tried over a tweet that included a Bible verse.

Convicted radical Islamic terrorist Abderrahman Bouanane, who committed the first Islamist attack in Finland, is again in court.

Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson has tested positive for the Chinese coronavirus, her office said Friday.

Tourism entrepreneurs in the northern Lapland region of Finland have warned the government that further Wuhan coronavirus restrictions could destroy their industry and could put tens of thousands of jobs at risk. The Association of Tourism Industries of Lapland (LME)

A Finnish Tesla owner received a repair bill totaling almost half of what he initially paid for the car. His response? Have YouTubers blow up the car with 66 pounds of dynamite and post the video rather than pay the hefty bill.

Experts in Finland’s most populous region have called for a ban on all public indoor events for at least three weeks in order to slow the spread of the Wuhan virus.

Lawmakers from Russia’s nationalist Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR) on Monday submitted a bill that would declare the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 to be “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th Century.”

The Finnish Security Intelligence Service (SUPO) has confirmed reports that people-smugglers are now advertising crossings from Russia to Finland to migrants, as many abandon attempts to enter the European Union from Belarus in the face of strong border enforcement by Poland and the Baltic States.

Finland’s Prime Minister Sanna Marin missed a Wuhan coronavirus contact alert because she had left her government phone at home when she went out partying at a Helsinki nightclub.

Markus Lohi, chairman of the Finnish parliament’s Social Affairs and Health Committee, has said he will not support a European Union-wide vaccine mandate.

Finland’s Interior Minister Maria Ohisalo said that if it faces the same kind of migrant pressure as Poland and the Baltic States, the country could close its border.

The female-led largely millennial government of Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin has sunk to a new polling low this week, with barely half of the country believing the government is doing a good job.

Helsinki’s local government has decided that as of next year it will no longer be serving meat at city events after recommendations from its climate team manager.

In an effort to clamp down on human trafficking, Europol raided hundreds of vineyards and farms across Europe last month.

Finland’s Supreme Court has overturned an assault conviction against a man with HIV who had unprotected sex with his partner without informing them he had the disease.

Taliban rival group the Islamic State may launch an attack, using the chaos to strike and increase their notoriety, experts have warned.

Since the start of the year, the number of people using Finland’s Wuhan coronavirus tracking app has fallen from 2.4 million to 1.8 million, representing around a quarter of users.

Germany has bucked years of decline with a sudden ten per cent surge in new children nine months after pubs and bars reopened in summer 2020.

The centre-right came top in Sunday´s local election, ahead of Sanna Marin´s Social Democrats in the first election for Finland’s new PM.

Police are investigating allegations that foreign-background residents were pressured to vote for certain candidates during the municipal election in Turku, Finland.

The Union of Pentecostal Churches of Lithuania has written an open letter condemning Finland’s prosecution of Christians who hold biblical beliefs concerning marriage and sexuality.

A group of prominent scholars and human rights advocates have written an open letter to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) to protest state prosecutions of Christians in Finland over biblical beliefs regarding marriage.

Finland’s Parliamentary Ombudsman has criticised two police officers who posed with a Black Lives Matter (BLM) sign at a protest last year, saying the move was contrary to police impartiality.

Finland’s Ministry of the Interior is investigating the possibility of letting female police officers wear hijabs as part of their police uniform.

A Muslim woman has called for Finland’s armed forces to drop the ban on the hijab, arguing that allowing the garment would increase participation in the military.

The European Union border agency Frontex has moved to discuss recent aggression from the Turkish paramilitary coastguard at an extraordinary meeting of the agency’s directors this week.

A Finnish Christian Democrat MP has been charged with incitement over LGBT-critical comments made on social media, including quoting a passage from the Bible.

VP Harris spoke to the president of Finland Monday about addressing the surge of migrants from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.

A Finnish court has sentenced an Iraqi migrant to four years in prison after being convicted of several crimes when he married a 13-year-old girl in Iraq and brought her to Finland in 2014.

A NATO report has revealed that Finland’s female-led government has received a torrent of sexist and misogynistic comments on social media.

A Brussels court has ordered the Belgian government to lift “all coronavirus measures” within 30 days after finding they were instituted on an insufficient legal basis. The court order is part of a growing legal backlash across Europe to the draconian emergency restrictions introduced by governments to counter the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.

HELSINKI (AP) – Finland’s domestic security agency on Tuesday maintained its terror threat assessment at an “elevated” level two on a four-point scale, while noting that the danger of extreme right-wing terrorism has grown in the Nordic country.
