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Nordic ministers meet to discuss gender equality in early childhood education and care, and wellbeing of LGBTI people

NordenBladet — Legislation and national guidance play a significant role in promoting gender equality in early childhood education and care. This is one of the conclusions of a study commissioned by the Nordic Council of Ministers. The Nordic ministers for

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Harmonisation of email addresses continues – Ministries of Transport and Communications, Agriculture and Forestry, Education and Culture, Defence and the Environment next in line to adopt ‘gov.fi’ suffix

NordenBladet — The Government is adopting a single email suffix in stages during the remainder of 2021. Once the harmonisation process is complete, the email addresses of all staff members at the ministries will end in ‘gov.fi’. The Ministry of

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Estimate: Tourism spending to remain 30–40% below the pre-pandemic level this year

NordenBladet — Tourist spending in Finland will decrease by 30–40% in 2021. If demand picks up in November–December, total spending is estimated to shrink by around 30%, or more than EUR 5 billion. If, however, demand starts to recover only

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Fortum submits to the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment an EIA report on the future of the Loviisa nuclear power plant

NordenBladet — On 6 September 2021, Fortum [Power and Heat Ltd] submitted an environmental impact assessment (EIA) report to the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment that assesses the environmental impact of continuing the operation of, or alternatively, decommissioning the

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Changes to restrictions on food and beverage service businesses — restrictions to be eased in Satakunta and Rovaniemi

NordenBladet — The Government has amended the decree restricting the activities of food and beverage service businesses due to the COVID-19 epidemic. The restrictions for the acceleration phase of the epidemic will be introduced in Satakunta and the baseline restrictions

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Finland and Belgium have signed the agreement on statistical transfers of renewable energy

NordenBladet — The Government of the Republic of Finland and the Government of the Kingdom of Belgium reached an agreement on statistical transfers under the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive on late June. The Minister of Economic Affairs Mika Lintilä on

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Nordic Nord StarT competition invites children and young people to join in the fight against climate change

NordenBladet — The Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture is organising the Nordic Nord Start Climate Change Competition in autumn 2021. The competition is part of the programme of Finland’s Presidency of the Nordic Council of Ministers in 2021. Organised

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Recruitment procedure for civilian crisis management experts to be reformed

NordenBladet — The recruitment procedure for civilian crisis management experts to be sent abroad will be developed. The Government submitted a legislative proposal on the matter to Parliament on 2 September. The aim is for Finland to have at its

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High-Level Working Group on Tourism launched

NordenBladet — The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment has appointed a High-Level Working Group on Tourism, which will serve as an expert advisory body on strategy related to tourism development. The High-Level Working Group will promote the implementation of

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Regional pilots on more flexible labour market test to begin 

NordenBladet — ELY Centres will launch a regional experiment on labour market tests that will introduce common guidelines on work permits in selected areas. This is expected to increase labour mobility between regions and ease permit processes related to foreign

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