NATO has sent Dutch warship HNLMS Rotterdam to the Baltic Sea, reports Hufvudstadsbladet, quoting Sweden Aftonbladet. The ship is south of the Danish island of Bornholm.
"It is a planned position, and they are there to show presence and solidarity with the whole alliance," A NATO spokesman told Aftonbladet.
Last week, three Russian landing craft sailed into the Baltic Sea through the Danish Strait. Sweden responded to the move last Friday by strengthening its military presence on the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea.
On Friday, the Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto said that Finland has no plans to join NATO at the moment, following a comment from the former NATO secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen that Finland and Sweden could join in one night.
Exploitation of the vulnerable
Police are investigating five cases of suspected systematic exploitation of asylum seekers. They cleaned up the K-Market stores in the Helsinki metropolitan area and the kindergartens in Espoo Helsingin sanomat newspaper.
According to the investigators, the companies changed their name whenever employees complained to the police or if the tax authorities became interested in the companies.
The suspected crimes are related to employers who trick employees into signing documents "light entrepreneurs" who charge their salaries. This meant that the cleaners were not workers, so they could not apply for overtime or holiday pay.
The case is being led by Finland’s first team of researchers specializing in human trafficking, funded by the Ministry of the Interior. Trafficking investigations are severely congested in the country, HS reports.
The future of vaccination
Nearly 40 percent of those over 12 years of age are boosted with a third dose, so Finland is looking at a vaccine for the Pfizer Omicron variant.
Kirsi Varhilasaid the Chief of Staff of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health Evening News that Finland could take a new vaccine this spring.
He stated that as part of the EU’s vaccine procurement pool, Finland could receive Pfizer’s Omicron vaccine in March with the permission of the European Medicines Agency.
Source: The Nordic Page