Numerous cuts to payments from the Social Insurance Institution (Kela) came into effect at the start of this week. Around half a million recipients of housing allowances and unemployment benefits are seeing their subsidies reduced.
Helsingin Sanomat homes in on the cuts to unemployment benefits.
Before Monday's changes, recipients could earn up to 300 euros a month without the income impacting their benefits, but as of Monday each earned euro will lower unemployment payments by 50 cents, up to a maximum reduction of 150 euros per month.
"I have been really anxious about the upcoming cuts all spring," Helsinki-based artist and musician Minna-Kaisa Kallinen-Paaso told HS.
Kallinen-Paaso told the paper she has been unemployed since her parental leave finished last December and has supplemented her income by doing music gigs.
"The 300-euro exemption has been good. It has provided a small additional income. Now, if I get a gig, essentially half of the pay will be taken away," she explained.
Nokia hopes
Kauppalehti explores how Finland fits into a changing global market economy that increasingly considers security policy. This means that certain sectors crucial for national security are protected from foreign competition.
The business daily talked to Mikael Wigell, a research director at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA), whose research has explored China's economic power.
China is investing massively in critical infrastructure on all continents and has not tied this funding to human rights or the development of the rule of law, as is customary, for example, within the EU, according to the business daily.
This shifting market paradigm isn't necessarily great for Finland which hasn't experienced economic growth for 15 years. In addition, investments in research and development have consistently fallen behind targets year after year, and as a small country, it's challenging for Finland to create large technology companies.
But it's not all doom and gloom, according to Wigell.
"Hopefully, Nokia will stay Finnish as it generates multiplier effects in the rest of the Finnish business sector," he said, adding that Finland's Nato membership also smooths entry into the US technology sector. "Our reputation there has definitely improved."
Smelly air
A strange and unpleasant smell settled over Uusimaa on Sunday and officials in Finland have yet to explain the odorous event, although the authorities said the stench did not pose a health hazard.
Martin Forsius, a researcher at the Finnish Environment Institute (Syke), said that while the source of the sulfurous odour is still uncertain, he told Hufvudstadsbladet that the cause was probably industrial.
"Most likely it's an industrial emission coming out of one of the industrial zones south of St Petersburg," he said, drawing on reports that the smell was present in the Russian city on Saturday evening.
According to Forsius, the smell could also have emanated from a landfill. Whatever the cause, getting to the bottom of what happened won't be easy, according to the environmental expert.
"In light of the political situation, it will be difficult to get information [from the Russian authorities]. The exchange of information isn't at a normal level now," he said.
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