Daily News from Scandinavia

Estonia: The Government wishes to ensure masks for the least privileged

NordenBladet — Members of the Government consider it necessary for the State to distribute masks to the least privileged. For this, two reusable masks...

Estonia joins the contracts for all of the seven jointly procured vaccines in the...

NordenBladet — Today, the Government supported the signing of all the pre-purchase contracts with vaccine manufacturers in the European Union joint procurement. Participation in...

Finland: EU Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy

NordenBladet — The new EU Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy 2020–2024 has approved last week. Finland actively participated in the negotiations and...

Finland: Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency to visit Finland

NordenBladet — Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Mariano Grossi will visit Finland on 25–26 November 2020. On Wednesday, he...

Finland: Impact investing to support wellbeing of families and children and education and employment...

NordenBladet — Jyväskylä, Tampere, Karkkila and Vihti will launch a project in which the problems faced by children, young people and families will be...

Finland: 312,700 unemployed jobseekers in October

NordenBladet — A total of 312,700 unemployed jobseekers were registered at the Employment and Economic Development Offices at the end of October. This was...

Estonia: NATO PA Estonian delegation participates in virtual Annual Session

NordenBladet — Members of the Estonian Delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (PA) today participate in the Assembly’s Annual Session, which is held online...

Finland: Ministers Haavisto and Skinnari to co-host 2020 Afghanistan Conference in Geneva

NordenBladet — Finnish Minister for Foreign Affairs Pekka Haavisto and Minister for Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade Ville Skinnari will travel Geneva to lead...

Finland: Minister Blomqvist attends meeting of Ministers for Nordic Cooperation

NordenBladet — Minister for Nordic Cooperation Thomas Blomqvist will attend an informal online meeting of Ministers for Nordic Cooperation on 23 November 2020. The meeting...

Estonia: Committees of the Riigikogu get an overview of the European Court of Auditors...

NordenBladet — At the public video sitting starting at 1.45 p.m. today, the European Union Affairs Committee, the Finance Committee and the State Budget...