Finland’s largest daily circulation, Helsingin sanomat newspaper, writes that a week of drama inflicted by the Central Party in negotiations on the state budget framework will leave a scar that is unlikely to go away.
HS political correspondent Teemu Luukka writes in the morning analysis that the events of the past week will not improve the position of the Center Party or its future behavior.
Luukka points out that the Centre’s parliamentary group decided not to force the crisis and to leave the government after the Prime Minister’s personal discussions Sanna Marin (SDP) and the party chairman Annika Saarikko (Cen).
The content of the debate is not known, but something happened because the parliamentary group agreed to a compromise that did not appeal to the Center the night before. According to some HS sources, the discussion focused on some sort of strengthening the axis of the SDP center within the government.
Had the government resigned, it would have marked the end of its unfinished business. This would have meant, among other things, that the social and health care reforms that the Center had been promoting for a long time would have ended up in a junkyard again. Peat producers would also not have received their negotiated support.
And the country could have been left for months without a functioning government to control the coronavirus pandemic.
According to Luke, this is something that even the most loyal Center Party voters would not have forgiven.
The Center resolved the crisis it caused itself and has received tremendous publicity as a party, claiming at least that it is seeking to continue to control the loans of left-wing parties.
"However, the drama created by the center became so absurd in scale that the party would hardly benefit from it. At least those who have hated the center in the past will hate it even more deeply," writes Luukka Helsingin Sanomat.
Iltalehti’s political columnist Lauri Nurmi is a suggestion fix things in government – the leaders of the five coalition parties should gather for the May holiday this weekend and sweat all the bile.
According to Iltalehti, the representatives of the governing parties who took part in the budget discussions believe that the agreement could have been reached and announced already last Thursday and no later than this week’s Monday.
Instead, what we saw is one of the key but unnamed chapters in the discussions "centrist sadomasochism".
"The Center considers that everyone must suffer before an agreement is reached," the source told the magazine.
Nurmi writes that Saarikko, the chairman of the party, may have been powerless when some members of the party have had demands that this sadomasochistic play be presented to the nation.
The center deliberately prolonged the negotiations and achieved only nominal gains, if any, notes this author.
Vaccination variables
Tabloids Ilta-Sanomat reports The coverage rate of coronavirus vaccinations in the population currently varies from 16.4 per cent in Liminka, Northern Ostrobothnia, to 50.2 per cent in Puumala, Southern Savonia.
The paper refers to several reasons why the variations are so great.
One of the main reasons is that some municipalities cannot use Pfizer in the absence of freezing facilities. On the other hand, the availability of health care personnel to implement the vaccination program has been a challenge.
The coverage of Liminka vaccinations is very poor, largely due to the age structure of the local population. Finland vaccinates older age groups and first risk groups. Liminka’s population is exceptionally young, even by general European standards. 40 percent of the municipality’s residents are under 18 years of age.
The management of Puumala is also influenced by the local age structure
"There are a lot of vaccinated elderly people and people at risk in Puumala," says Hans Gärdström, Pandemic Service Manager of the South Savo Social and Health Care Authority, "We also have a vaccination-friendly community here."
Tampere Aamulehti makes a report EU efforts to create a common coronavirus certificate this summer.
The document states that the issuance of a digital certificate would be the responsibility of the national authorities of each EU country.
Finland will introduce a vaccination certificate in May. The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, the National Institute for Health and Welfare and the National Insurance Agency Kela officially confirmed on Tuesday that the national coronavirus vaccination certificate will be introduced at the end of May in Finland.
The digital certificate is available online "My Position" health information service.
Why do Finns eat “donuts”?
The upcoming May holiday is a time of celebration and also sweet treats.
Among them are sugar-coated jelly poisons, which are called in Finnish "monk", a which is a "monk".
Jyväskylä Central Finn explain to readers why these delicacies have such a strange name.
First a word "monk" is a loan from Sweden, which received it from Germany, which borrowed it from Latin and eventually from Greece.
The reason these pastries have the same name is that when the dough is baked, it swells and turns dark, which seems to be a well-fed monk in a brown bathrobe.
Source: The Nordic Page