Charles Mathies raised a storm this week as he tweeted long queues of people waiting outside the Finnish Immigration Service in Helsinki.
A U.S. researcher tells APN that Covid’s restrictions were poorly communicated, leaving many people standing in the cold for hours – with no guarantee that they could run their business at the end of it.
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We also looked at a new tool that can be accessed canivote.fi, created by students at TAMK and Aalto University and designed to help people find out if they can vote in the upcoming municipal elections.
"I think it is important for the minority that minorities participate in Finnish politics when we see so few minorities represented in the Finnish media," said the Aalto student Boeun Kim, who said he noticed a lack of information among his social circle.
"I asked my group of friends about this, and many of them didn’t know they could vote because it wasn’t advertised. You have to look into it."
We also looked at good news for buyers for the first time as Finland expanded the scope of the savings and loan guarantee system.
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Source: The Nordic Page