Joel Willans News Today

We dive into the big issues as Finland heads to the polls on Sunday 2 April.

Yle TV1 will host a series of minority language election discussions this week, beginning on Monday at 3pm with a show in Easy Finnish. The English language discussion will be broadcast on Thursday at 3pm.

Finnish Christmas food is a much-loved delicacy. So why is it only eaten once a year?

This week APN asks what the Omicron variant means for Christmas and we hear why an Elon Musk tweet made the Finnish news.

Just like every nation has its own culture, traditions, and, ultimately, identity, it’s also natural to think that every nation also has its own personality and quirks when it comes to things that people do or believe in collectively as a nation. Very Finnish Problems is one of many internet projects dedicated to celebrating cultural and national identity—the Finnish one, to be precise—whilst also having some fun with it in the form of memes. And it’s not just an Instagram page, as ther...

Just like every nation has its own culture, traditions, and, ultimately, identity, it’s also natural to think that every nation also has its own personality and quirks when it comes to things that people do or believe in collectively as a nation. Very Finnish Problems is one of many internet projects dedicated to celebrating cultural and national identity—the Finnish one, to be precise—whilst also having some fun with it in the form of memes. And it’s not just an Instagram page, as ther...

Just like every nation has its own culture, traditions, and, ultimately, identity, it’s also natural to think that every nation also has its own personality and quirks when it comes to things that people do or believe in collectively as a nation. Very Finnish Problems is one of many internet projects dedicated to celebrating cultural and national identity—the Finnish one, to be precise—whilst also having some fun with it in the form of memes. And it’s not just an Instagram page, as ther...

The UK is set to leave the EU on 31 December. Joel Willans, creator of the Very Finnish Problems and Very Brexit Problems social media accounts. Image: Esa Syväkuru / Yle Since the Brexit vote in June 2016, about 800 British citizens have acquired Finnish citizenship and a further 2,800 have registered as residents in Finland, according to the latest data from Statistics Finland. In total, about 5,000 British citizens currently live in Finland. Their status will change at the turn of the yea...