Tag: Johannes Yrttiaho

  • Finland’s Riksdag approves accession to NATO

    HELSINKI, March 1 (Xinhua) — The Finnish parliament on Wednesday approved legislation allowing the country to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). 184 Members of Parliament voted for, with seven against and one abstention. Finnish President Sauli Niinisto will sign the legislation “as soon as possible,” he said. In May 2022, Finland’s Riksdag approved…

  • Finland starts building a fence on the border with Russia

    Finland starts building a fence on the border with Russia

    Finland has begun building a 200-kilometer-long fence on the border with Russia to prevent Moscow from using migrant flows for political purposes. This comes as Finnish MPs vote on Wednesday afternoon to speed up the process to join the NATO military alliance. Terrain work would begin on Tuesday “with forest clearance and will proceed in…

  • EU nation’s MEPs green light joining NATO

    EU nation’s MEPs green light joining NATO

    Meanwhile, two members of the bloc have not yet ratified Helsinki’s bid Finland’s Riksdag voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to join NATO. The vote was held before Hungary and Turkey had the chance to ratify the Nordic nation’s accession to the US-led military bloc. The bill was supported by 184 MPs in the 200-seat parliament, while…

  • Parliament approved the NATO proposal with 184 votes in favor and 7 against

    Parliament approved the NATO proposal with 184 votes in favor and 7 against

    Finland’s membership is therefore in the hands of only two member states whose application has not yet been ratified, Hungary and Turkey. On Wednesday, six members of the Left Alliance voted against. Veronika Honkasalo, Katja Hänninen, Anna Kontula, Markus Mustajärvi, Matt Semi and Johannes Yrttiaho – and Ano TurtiainenThe only member of Power Belongs to…

  • YLE: More than half of MPs support increasing nuclear power capacity

    YLE: More than half of MPs support increasing nuclear power capacity

    The Parliament has a total of 200 members. Many of the respondents, the broadcaster wrote, paid attention to small modular reactors, even though the question was about nuclear power in general. Joonas Könttä (The Center) estimates that the nuclear power legislation should be clarified so that the construction and start-up of small modular reactors would…

  • Explanation: Most MPs are in favor of building fences on the Finnish-Russian border

    Explanation: Most MPs are in favor of building fences on the Finnish-Russian border

    Yle’s research has revealed widespread support in Parliament for building stronger fences on Finland’s eastern border. Yle’s survey was answered by 124,200 MPs, 88 of whom expressed support for such a measure, 22 opposed and 14 did not want to comment. Of the political parties, only the Left Alliance was against the proposal in the…

  • Parliament approved the NATO application in a historic vote

    Parliament approved the NATO application in a historic vote

    On Tuesday, Finnish MPs approved a decision to apply for membership of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) by 188 votes to 8. Three MPs were abstained. On Sunday, the president Sauli Niinistö and the Prime Minister Sanna Marin (SDP) announced that Finland is aspiring to join the NATO Alliance. The matter then proceeded to…

  • YLE: Most MPs believe that Russia is a growing threat to Finland

    YLE: Most MPs believe that Russia is a growing threat to Finland

    With the exception of one, Russia saw a growing security threat from the National Coalition and all respondents representing the Christian Democrats, the Greens and the Swedish People’s Party. Representatives of the center, the Left Alliance and the Social Democrats, for their part, saw widely that the threat had not increased. The members of the…