Helsingin Sanomat carries a poll offering individual poll ratings for senior Finnish politicians since the start of the Ukraine crisis.
It's no surprise to see that President Sauli Niinistö's approval ratings are high, after his extensive international diplomacy around Russia's attack on Ukraine and the parallel debate over a possible Finnish application to join Nato.
Some 86 percent of respondents said they were satisfied with Niinistö's work, while around 63 percent said the same about Prime Minister Sanna Marin (SDP), 66 percent liked Defence Minister Antti Kaikkonen's(Cen) efforts and 62 percent said Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto (Green) had performed satisfactorily.
Niinistö's score broke down with 55 percent saying they were 'very satisfied' with his performance, and 31 percent 'quite satisfied'.
The poll was conducted between 25 March and 30 March, with 1,081 respondents asked their views on Finland's senior politicians in charge of foreign and security policy.
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2024 hopes
While the current president is very popular, his term runs out in 2024 and prevented from running again by Finland's constitution.
Kauppalehti has an editorial looking at the runners and riders in that race, but also paying tribute to Niinistö's work in bolstering the institution of the president.
There had been talk of Finland perhaps doing without a head of state, but that's all gone now: Prime Ministers have too much on their plate to skillfully handle relations with Russia at the same time.
Regardless of what Russia does or how Finland responds, it remains a neighbour, and KL says the discussion channel must be kept open.
In 2024 the paper looks at the main candidates, even though nobody has declared they're running, and suggests that perhaps Alexander Stubb might be due to return to Finnish elections.
Stubb has said he would avoid domestic politics, and is currently working at the European University Institute, but KL suggests that a mostly international role such as the presidency might be tempting.
Climate alarm
Ministers are meeting on Tuesday for budget framework talks, and there are tough choices to make.
Iltalehti has a comment piece that looks at how choices made now in responding to the war could either exacerbate or help resolve the climate crisis, in the wake of a new report from the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
The report was familiar reading. Humanity has a small and shrinking chance of avoiding 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming, and that will have devastating effects for hundreds of millions of people.
IPCC says that we will also need to use as-yet-unproven carbon air capture technology if we are to have any chance of mitigating the worst, as well as drastically reducing emissions.
Iltalehti recaps missed opportunities, including vast subsidies handed out to Finnair with no climate strings attached (unlike those subsidies granted to Air France, for example), but says that now the war in Ukraine makes the task even more urgent.
With previous spending limits set to be cast aside, and support on the way for the agriculture and energy sectors, ministers have big issues to grapple with as they set out spending plans.