The new candidate for the Chancellor of Justice is Ülle Madise, whose appointment was confirmed by the President's Chancellery, and the next steps involve meetings with parliamentary factions. #õiguskantsler #ÜlleMadise #Eesti (translated)
"with a benefit on the sidelines, because our social security system locks people up." And no day too early, found especially Minister Hans Vijlbrief (Social Affairs and Employment, D66). #SociaalAkkoord #Arbeidsongeschiktheid #Arbeidsmarkt (translated)
The Amsterdam district court has ruled that Booking.com can require its tech employees to be present in the office 40 percent of the time, to promote company culture and the well-being of employees. #Booking #Kantoorverplichting #Werknemersrechten (translated)
Sture Fjäder wrote that Puhos was not as peaceful a place as many, especially the red-greens, claimed. He estimated that the native Finns hardly ever went there and that the claim of visiting was mainly fashionable. #puhos #maahanmuutto https://t.co/CB0fgfhh1u #puhos #maahanmuutto #Suomi (translated)
The author reported that the police suspect a serious series of sexual offenses. According to him, the accused worked as a teacher and was active in scouting and the Salvation Army in his free time. The author stated that the accused had admitted to some of the acts and denied others. He noted that the investigation was the police's responsibility, and he did not comment on the specific case. #seksuaalirikos #police #opettaja #FI (translated)
Jussi Halme asked whether there would have been less poverty in Finland if the specified amount had been invested in Finland. He wrote that pouring money into a well had not worked for 60 years and questioned why it would work in the next 60 years. Halme also referred to Finland, which he claimed had already sent 30 billion euros, and linked to an article about the harsh truth of the results. https://t.co/tocI07sc1v #Suomi #köyhyys #investoinnit (translated)
GFrei.News referred to values of 30.5 percent for the AfD and 17.5 percent for the CDU and urged the CDU to abandon its "firewall." Otherwise, the author warned that the party could face further loss of significance. He described the CDU and SPD as career parties and claimed that advancement opportunities depended on conforming to party leadership and avoiding internal criticism. The author accused the CDU of using offices and positions to provide for its members. As evidence, he cited 25 lost CDU seats in Saxony-Anhalt, 12 in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and 68 nationwide, with the latter relating to current polls. According to his portrayal, state parliament representatives received between 10,000 and 11,000 euros monthly, federal parliament representatives up to 17,000 euros; additionally, there were up to 6,000 euros for office equipment and 1.24 million euros in party funds for every million voters. GFrei.News also criticized travel expenses, retirement provisions, and opportunities for employees and stock trades that, in his view, were available to the representatives. According to the author, the CDU supported Merkel and then Merz despite what he considered bad policies. He concluded by asking when a prominent CDU member would abandon the firewall. #CDU #AfD #Politik (translated)
Max von Kreyfelt criticized Cora van Nieuwenhuizen's transition from the ministry to Energy-Nederland. He wrote that Van Nieuwenhuizen was appointed as chair of the industry association on August 31, 2021, and that same day she resigned as a minister. She started working for the organization on October 1. According to Von Kreyfelt, Van Nieuwenhuizen had already informed Prime Minister Mark Rutte on July 23 that she would be nominated, but she remained a minister until the end of August. He wrote that Rutte later acknowledged that government officials had access to cabinet documents and could possibly gain information about the area of their future positions. On August 26, Rutte concluded, according to Von Kreyfelt, that the appointment did not go well with the ministry. Arrangements were made to transfer files that could affect her new position to a colleague if necessary. Von Kreyfelt also reported that Energy-Nederland praised her managerial experience in the Netherlands and Europe. He stated that the transition raised questions about the closeness of public positions and private interests, but wrote that the matter in itself did not prove corruption. He advocated for independent assessment of subsequent positions, more transparency regarding contacts, and a mandatory waiting period before former government officials began working in a sector organization. According to him, public experience should not automatically grant access to private influence. https://t.co/V2P6pFuNy1 #Energie #Overheid #Transitie (translated)
Dystocracy wrote that they found the news about the far-left riots coming from France ideologically unpleasant and described that Yle provided in contrast a panic news story about raccoons for the day. They sarcastically hinted that this time the entity labeled as Nazis was Åland. https://t.co/yfG3fXc4Kb https://t.co/HR4esUK4F5 #Suomi #uutiset #politiikka (translated)
"On a quiet Sunday, an air raid alert sounded in Kyiv. I can only repeat here once again, Mr. Putin, put an end to this senseless war. We are ready for negotiations, we are ready to discuss ending the war, but these barbaric attacks against the civilian population of Ukraine must stop. Daily war crimes are being committed here," said Chancellor Friedrich Merz. #Saksamaa #UkrainaSõda #Venemeelsus (translated)
In Germany, there is a growing pro-Russian sentiment, which is expressed in demonstrations and political surveys showing that the right-wing populist party Alternative for Germany (AfD) has become the most popular party in the country, while the German president and chancellor emphasize the need for peace and negotiations, opposing the dangers of extremism to democracy. #Saksamaa #UkrainaSõda #Venemeelsus (translated)
The author stated that the government was trying to convince people on one hand that Russia was so weak that Ukraine would win, and on the other hand that Russia was strong enough to invade Europe. He called those messages lies that were hard to reconcile with each other. #politiek #Rusland #Oekraïne (translated)
Israel in Finland wrote that the Hamas massacre began on Saturday, October 7, 2023, at 6:29 AM. It mentioned that at the same time that morning, the Israeli flag was flown at half-mast at President Herzog's residence. Israel in Finland stated that it remembers the people murdered by Hamas terrorists, victims of sexual violence, hostages, and soldiers who fell defending Israel. It also mentioned remembering those who suffered physical or psychological injuries that day and who still bear them. #IsraelinSota #Hamas #Muistaminen (translated)
On the contrary – just yesterday Chancellor Merz was a guest in Ukraine, who clearly demonstrated what he really thinks about the threats from the Russians, considering he also took an economic delegation and businessmen there. #Venemaa #Ukraina #sõda (translated)
Jari Mäkäräinen criticized Yle for what he perceived as giving Timo R. Stewart, whom he describes as a Hamas activist, an unchallenged platform to present his book. According to Mäkäräinen, the article adopted Stewart's view regarding the destruction of Gaza, genocide, and Finland's responsibility due to trade with Israel, without hearing the opposing side. Mäkäräinen emphasized that, in his opinion, genocide does not equate to heavy war. He wrote that the International Court of Justice had not ruled on the case against Israel and that interim measures were not a judgment. In his view, civilian casualties can occur in urban warfare where Hamas places rockets, command centers, and tunnels among civilians without the intent of destroying the group. He compared this to the battles of Mosul, Raqqa, and Fallujah, claiming that Stewart began using the term genocide after Israel succeeded in its war against Hamas. According to Mäkäräinen, the Yle article also lacked the starting point of the war: the attack on October 7, in which he claims over 1,200 people died, and which involved rapes and kidnappings. He wrote that Hamas aims for the end of Israel instead of a Palestinian state. He criticized the figures presented by the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the article—over 21,600 by December 2023 and over 1,400 after ceasefires—and claimed that the ministry was subordinate to Hamas and that its figures did not differentiate between fighters and civilians. In his view, the article also lacked Israel's perspective that a significant portion of the dead were fighters. Regarding the two-state model, Mäkäräinen wrote that its failure was not solely due to Israel. He claimed that Hamas had rejected the model multiple times and that the Palestinian Authority had turned down offers, such as at Camp David in 2000 and Annapolis in 2008. He added that according to polls, the majority of both Palestinians and Israelis had abandoned the model. He described the cessation of support for UNRWA as a reaction to an organization that, according to him, had ample evidence of connections between its facilities and personnel to Hamas. Mäkäräinen believed that Yle, as a publicly funded media, should not advertise a single essayist as an expert. According to him, the article could have included opposing researchers, Israel's official stance, or addressed Hamas's responsibility for hostages and the use of civilians as shields. He concluded by asking why this had not been done. https://t.co/sHriNitmMo #Gaza #Israel #Hamas (translated)
Matias Pajula wrote that the chairman of the SDP, Antti Lindtman, had been hiding for the third day. According to him, the SDP, which demanded answers from others immediately, was trying to silence its own serious misassessment of security policy. Pajula urged the party to take responsibility. #SDP #Turvallisuuspolitiikka #Vastuunkanto (translated)
The sense of home criticized the priorities of Chancellor Friedrich Merz. The account wrote that everywhere in Germany cuts were being made, while millions in taxpayer money were being given to Ukraine. He described this approach as typical for the CDU. #CDU #FriedrichMerz #Politik (translated)
Filippa Mannerheim wrote that differentiated instruction lacked scientific support. She argued that Helena Wallberg had therefore renamed the instruction she sold to schools to the curriculum expression "guidance and stimulation" and filled it with her own content. https://t.co/mno8tnr1J8 #utbildning #skola #differentiering (translated)
The author referred to ChatGPT as the "greatest intellectual revolution of humanity" and wrote that the tool had created a word cloud from 12,000 HTML pages of Kant texts in just a few minutes. He linked to SprachPhilo. #ChatGPT #Kant #Intelligenz #DE (translated)
Kirsten Verdel wrote that she had seen the documentary Naza about civilian casualties in Gaza. She said that she generally wrote little about Israel and Gaza, because, according to her, she received strong reactions from all sides and could not please anyone with her stance that both Hamas and Netanyahu were wrong. #Gaza #Israel #documentaire (translated)
