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Finland finally wins its own wife-carrying race
For the first time in over a decade, a Finnish couple has won the coveted title of the World Wife Carrying Champions. This quirky, but extremely popular, annual competition was created in Finland, but...
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True Finns drop the ‘True’
Anti-immigration party the True Finns have officially dropped the ‘True’ from their English-language name and will be referred to simply as ‘The Finns’ from now on. The opposition party, which clawed...
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Finns councillor calls for murderer medal
A police investigation has been launched after a councillor for the far-right Finns Party said a man who shot and killed a Moroccan-born restaurant worker in Oulu should be given a medal. Tommi Rautio,...
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Finns Party councillor expelled after Facebook comment
A council member for the right-wing Finns Party, who wrote on Facebook that a man suspected of shooting two men from immigrant backgrounds should be given a medal, has been expelled from the party....
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Parliament speaker calls for an end to boozing MPs
Finland’s Speaker of Parliament has denounced MPs drinking on the job in the wake of several alcohol-related scandals. Writing in his blog last week, Eero Heinäluoma said, “I feel that it is...
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