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Finnish labour markets are so small that, at any given moment, there are only a handful of companies that can offer foreign specialists top-level opportunities, Youssef Zad, the chief economist at the Finnish Startup Community, stated to YLE on Sunday.

Ilkka Niemelä, the rector at Aalto University, told Helsingin Sanomat on Sunday that the revisions threaten to reduce high-quality research and innovation activity by discouraging top international talent from choosing Finland.

Minister of Employment Arto Satonen (NCP) stated to MTV on Saturday that the government should find a way to exempt international specialists from the requirement that they leave the country if they fail to re-employ themselves in three months.

A few hundred people voiced their concern about the immigration policy changes set forth in the newly published government programme in Helsinki on Sunday, report YLE and Helsingin Sanomat.