According to the results of a poll published by the newspaper Maaseudun Tulevaisuus, most Finns give a high rating to President Alexander Stubb's work in the sphere of foreign policy, but are dissatisfied with Prime Minister Petteri Orpo's (NCP) foreign policy leadership.
Almost three out of four (73%) Finns told pollsters they are satisfied with how President Stubb has handled Finland's foreign policy.
In contrast, the majority (55%) are dissatisfied with the Prime Minister's performance in foreign policy affairs. Only about one third said they are satisfied.
Both the president and the prime minister receive lower ratings from those who support the opposition parties than from those who vote for the governing parties.
According to the Constitution, Finnish foreign policy is led by the president, in cooperation with the government. Since taking office, President Stubb has stressed Finland's common and coherent foreign policy.
However, during the autumn, there have been some clashes and disagreement within the government coalition on the conduct of Finland's foreign policy.
In September, it was reported that Finland had declined to take part in the Equality and Inclusiveness Coalition for Ukraine's Reconstruction under a decision made by Minister for Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade Ville Tavio (Finns).
Orpo later commented to the media that he felt participation in the alliance would have been in line with his government's policy, but that the decision was up to Tavio.
Since then, Finland's position on Israel and Palestine, in particular, has been a source of controversy.
The MT survey was conducted by Kantar Agri which polled 1,000 Finns between 11 and 17 October. The margin of error for the survey is three percentage points.
Nicotine pouch debacle
The economic and business publication Talouselämä is among the papers carrying an STT news agency report that the government will not implement revisions to tobacco legislation passed by Parliament last week that would allow nicotine pouches to be sold in a variety of flavours.
Social Security Minister Sanni Grahn-Laasonen (NCP) told STT on Thursday the government will present a new proposal to Parliament, which will only allow mint and menthol as nicotine pouch flavours.
The law as passed allows for the use of tea, ginger, rosemary and wood flavourings.
Grahn-Laasonen pointed to improprieties in the drafting of the legislation as the reason for the change in policy.
The full range of flavours in the law which was passed were included at the initiative of the Swedish People's Party. Only a single company, based in an area with high levels of SPP political support produce these flavours.
According to press reports, the list of permitted flavours was put forward by a special adviser to the SPP's former leader, Anna-Maja Henriksson, who was Minister of Education at the time.
Henriksson has denied that the aim was to favour one company.
Hotel data leak
Helsingin Sanomat reports the confirmation of a data security breach that led to a data leak of clients of the hospitality company Arctic SnowHotel & Glass Igloos.
The company says that hackers had created a scam website that allowed it to bypass the two-step authentication process and gain access to the hotel's system.
As a result, customer data was leaked for more than a year and affected around 1,000 clients, according to the paper.
The company reported the potential data leak on Monday after some of the hotel's customers had received Whatsapp messages that appeared to have come from the hotel.
The messages came from a British phone number, claiming that the customer had not paid for their room and asked for payment to be made.
Arctic SnowHotel & Glass Igloos offers accommodation in a snow-built hotel and Igloos with transparent ceilings at a location near Rovaniemi in Finnish Lapland.
Warmer weekend
Ilta-Sanomat tells readers that the weekend looks set to be unseasonably warm, with winds carrying warm air all the way up from the Mediterranean.
Meteorologist Jari Tuovinen of the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) estimates that temperatures of up to 15 degrees Celsius or even more may be recorded in some parts of the country on Sunday.
"There will be some variation in weather patterns as to which day will see the warmest temperatures. 15 degrees is already certainly an exceptionally warm reading around the 20th of October," he told IS.
On Friday morning, there may be patches of clear skies in the south and east of the country. Heavy cloud cover can be expected during the day from western Finland up into Lapland.
Some scattered showers may be seen in an area stretching from Ostrobothnia to eastern Lapland. In southern and eastern parts of the country, the weather could be quite sunny.
Warmer than normal weather is forecast to continue into next week. IS also points to Foreca's latest monthly forecast which sees unseasonably warm weather continuing for the next four weeks.
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