The government announced yesterday it will close all border-crossing points on the border between Finland and Russia as of 30 November until 13 December.
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The Finnish public broadcaster’s investigative journalism team, MOT, has examined around 500 decisions on the residence permit applications of foreign-born parents of Finnish children, finding that the applications may be denied on grounds such as divorce even if the former man and wife had agreed to shared custody.
The case centred around a series of tweets written by Mikko Kärnä in December 2020, in which he implied that a Professor of Constitutional Law had written objections on behalf of two Green Party MPs.
After the government s proposed lockdown legislation was shot down by the Parliamentary Constitutional Law Committee on Wednesday, Thursday s Helsingin Sanomat asks how a law deemed unconstitutional made it so far through the legislative process. Legal experts quoted by the paper levelled significant criticism at Chancellor of Justice Tuomas Pöysti. The Constitutional Law Committee s opinion raises tough questions about the quality of the government s legal advice, said Helsinki University constitutional law professor Tuomas Ojanen, especially when the committee has already made repeated criticisms of bills or regulations under the Emergency Powers Act over the course of the coronavirus pandemic year.