The government's summer of scandals is drawing to a close, and the coalition parties are keen to draw a line under the resignations and controversies that dogged the start of this administration.
The centrepiece of this effort is a statement on racism and discrimination expected to be delivered this autumn.
On Tuesday the Swedish People's Party's leader Anna-Maja Henriksson announced at her parliamentary group meeting in Åland that things were moving forward and there was a greater chance of her party staying in government.
But the statement was not final, and she could not reveal what conditions she had placed on its composition.
That encapsulates the basic problem, as outlined in a Helsingin Sanomat editorial: there remain big differences between the government parties on how racism should be defined.
The Finns Party views it as an act of discrimination committed against an individual on ethnic or religious grounds. That's prohibited in the constitution and therefore not an argument.
Slandering or labelling an ethnic group, on the other hand, is a different kettle of fish. The party wants to change Finland's laws on ethnic agitation to prevent prosecution on those grounds.
Indeed several of the party's leading figures have convictions under those laws, and leader Riikka Purra has said that this will not affect their positions in the party.
Helsingin Sanomat argues that this is an unsustainable position. The Finns Party has to agree with its coalition partners on a common definition of racism, and it cannot keep referring to its own framing of the issue.
If the forthcoming statement on racism doesn't deal with that contradiction, HS says, it may amount to sweeping racism issues under the carpet.
Not fully up to speed with the new government's scandal-filled summer? All Points North podcast looked back at the series of racism and far-right scandals that rocked Orpo's newly formed coalition government. Listen to the episode via this embedded player, on Yle Areena, Apple or via Spotify.
Russian permit shift
Last week it emerged that a Russian citizen linked to war crimes in Ukraine had received a residence permit in Finland. He had done so under a false name, but it raised questions about how Russians are now moving to Finland despite tightened restrictions after the stepped-up aggression against Ukraine started in February 2022.
Ilta-Sanomat has looked at the issue on a broader level, and found a spike in the numbers of Russians granted residence permits in Finland last year.
Last year some 6,000 people moved from Russia to Finland, the highest figure since the fall of the Soviet Union. Some 7,000 residence permits were granted, with some people granted more than one permit after applying under several different categories.
Tensions within Russian society were part of the reason, according to Johannes Hirvelä of the Immigration Service.
"Last year was exceptional," said Hirvelä. "Lots of specialists, entrepreneurs and asylum seekers came from Russia.
Last year 1,100 people sought asylum based on ideological reasons, with this year's figure at around 300 so far.
Most of those applications remain unresolved, as the EU seeks a common line on Russian asylum seekers.
This year some 1,500 applications for residence permits have been made on grounds of family ties, with 1,000 work permit applications and roughly 700 applications based on studying in Finland.
Basketball blow-outs
Finland is competing at the basketball World Cup, but it has not gone well. Finland lost all three group games and were eliminated from the tournament, and now face further matches to determine their position in qualifying for the next Olympics.
Aamulehti's reporter at the tournament in Okinawa writes that their 101-75 loss to Germany on Tuesday was a disappointment.
"Our backbone just broke again," said Ilkka Seppälä, who was Finland's second-top scorer in the game with 12 points. "In a difficult situation, we should trust the team and our own game, not try to fix things individually. That requires experience, we have to learn from this."
Finland's next game is on Thursday, when the tournament to determine rankings 17-32 at the World Cup is due to begin.
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