The opposition Basic Finns announced its new foreign and security policy program on Tuesday.
According to it, the biggest threats to the security of the West are the anti-democratic governments of China and Russia and large-scale immigration from African and Islamic countries.
The Basic Finns is currently the largest opposition party in the parliament with 38 seats, but the Coalition led the elections last year. The next parliamentary elections will be held in April 2023.
The program stated that Finland cannot return to its former bilateral relations with Russia. When trade with Finland’s eastern neighbor occasionally continues, the security benefits must be weighed carefully, the party wrote.
Finland should also support efforts to create a Western Front against China’s efforts to become the only global superpower, according to the Basic Finns.
The party also emphasized the importance of following the Arctic goals of China and Russia, and that is why real estate deals in northern Finland are treated with particular caution.
It estimates that NATO membership gives Finland, above all, the guarantees of military security, but also the opportunity to pursue a foreign policy that is more independent from the EU.
The party also emphasized increasing and deepening cooperation with the United States as a means of countering Russian and Chinese aggression.
The party strongly opposed large-scale immigration, saying it causes economic and social problems, and called for curbing this trend.
Get along with the neighbors
Basic Finns stated in their security policy platform that Finland should adopt a "more realistic EU policy," similar to Denmark and Sweden.
The party claimed that Finland is suffering "EU debt packages" and climate policy, but argued that Denmark and Sweden have always weighed EU policy with the countries’ national interests. For example, Denmark and Sweden have not joined the euro area.
In addition, with regard to the EU’s common security policy, Finland should position itself closer to the Baltic countries, whose attitude towards Russia, according to the Fundamental Finns, has been more realistic than Finland’s in the post-Cold War era.
The Baltic countries of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia, which were part of the former Soviet Union, have separated themselves from the rest of Europe in sharp opposition to Russia.
Will dual citizenship end?
According to the view of fundamental Finns, dual citizenship should be removed due to recent developments in Russia.
"In Finland, the right to dual citizenship must be abolished because it does not fulfill its purpose in the changed security environment." was emphasized in the party program.
The document stated that foreigners should be obliged to renounce their birth citizenship when applying for Finnish citizenship.
The Basic Finns program continued that persons with dual citizenship must be prevented from entering positions important to national security in the defense forces or in the state administration.
In the end, the Fundamental Finns agreed that revoking dual citizenship may prove to be politically too difficult and that a compromise would be to grant dual citizenship only to those whose second citizenship is from an OECD member state.
Source: The Nordic Page