A foundation closely linked to the opposition Finns Party has been ordered to repay nearly one tenth of its annual state support of 120,000 euros due to its publication of a misogynist book.
The party’s leadership has distanced itself from the publication by the foundation, Suomen Perusta.
The Ministry of Education and Culture is clawing back more than 10,000 euros from the think tank.
In June, it published a 420-page book by Jukka Hankamäki entitled Totuus kiihottaa (roughly The Truth Provokes), billed as "a philosophical study of the information and truth crisis of the left-wing populist mainstream media".
In a section on "the tyranny of women", Hankamäki claimed that that some Finnish women rejected by Finnish men "sought revenge on Finnish society by mating with foreigners". Hankamäki is a philosopher, social psychologist and failed Finns Party parliamentary candidate.
The ministry declared on Tuesday that Suomen Perusta had violated the rules on grants by paying the sum to the author. One stipulation of the state supports is that they must be used to advance equality.
The ministry said that the publication repeatedly violated both the Act on Equality between Women and Men of 1986 and the Non-discrimination Act of 2014.
The chair of the nationalist Finns Party, Jussi Halla-aho, called the publication "a mistake" and said that "quality control" may have slipped at the think tank.
"Cruel and disturbing"
The culture minister at the time, Hanna Kosonen (Centre), described the excerpts she had read as "cruel and disturbing".
The ministry based its decision on evaluations of the work by the Ombudsman for Equality and the Non-discrimination Ombudsman.
Neither Kosonen nor the present culture minister were involved in the decision. Kosonen was replaced last month by Annika Saarikko, who returned from family leave in August and was elected chair of the Centre Party this past weekend.