Jäätteenmäki Not to Stand for Centre Party Leadership

updated yesterday 02:46 PM

MEP Anneli Jäätteenmäki will not run as a candidate for leadership of the Centre Party. She announced her decision on Saturday during the YLE current affairs programme Ykkösaamu.

News Docks Reopen Following Settlement updated yesterday 02:31 PM	News Social Networking Helps Cut Suicide Rate published yesterday 08:10 PM
Operations are gradually getting back to normal at Finland’s ports after the end of the two week long strike by stevedores. According to the new agreement, employees should return to work by Tuesday at the latest.	Cases of taking one's own life have dropped by one-third over the past decade. Despite this, Finland still has the highest rate of suicides in the Nordic area.

News SDP Rejects Vanhanen's Call for Strike Right Review updated yesterday 08:35 PM	Teksti-TV YLE News PTT: Cost of Stevedore Strike Less than Anticipated updated yesterday 05:49 PM	News Halonen: Deportation Decision "Unreasonable" updated Fri 07:14 PM
Finland's largest opposition party, the SDP, has rejected calls by Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen to review the right to strike of employees in key sectors of the economy. SDP Chair, Jutta Urpilainen says any tampering with the right to strike would simultaneously infringe human rights.	The dock worker strike will cost less than originally expected, according to Pellervo Economic Research (PTT). The institute estimates the cost at 200 to 300 million euros. Industry had earlier calculated export losses at over 100 million euros a day.	President Tarja Halonen says a recent court decision to deport two foreign grandmothers from Finland seems unreasonable. However, she fell short of criticising the court and did not comment on changing the law.
Teksti-TV YLE News Migration Minister Wants to Discuss Residence Permits for Relatives updated yesterday 03:28 PM	News First Butterflies Awaken To Spring published Fri 11:56 AM	News Thors: Government Takes Racist Threats Seriously published Fri 12:07 PM
Minister of Migration Astrid Thors wants to discuss the criteria for providing residence permits to foreign relatives with leaders of the various parliamentary groups. Currently Finland has strict regulations on granting residence permits to non-immediate family members.	The first signs of the arrival of spring in the animal kingdom are starting to be seen in Finland. Sightings have been reported from Helsinki and Rauma of small tortoiseshell butterflies.	Minister for Migration Astrid Thors says that she is confident that the whole government takes a serious view of a surge in racist threats. Death threats against Thors herself have been posted on Facebook, and similar threats have been made against a number of researchers.