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It is completely unacceptable to burn down the town hall! Those who did this must be punished. They must pay [the bill] out of their own pockets; it is not the state's responsibility, said a local named Gilbert, who only went by his first name, according to Reuters. #Ranska #mielenosoitus #kulttuuriperintö (translated)

Jesse Rauhamo claimed that Nasima had accumulated her wealth through funds related to reception centers and had started to appeal to racism once the funding had run out. He also wrote that Nasima had received everything from Finns and the Finnish state, and accused her of ingratitude. https://t.co/l7zwmwGt4E #rasismi #Suomi #kiittämättömyys (translated)

Henri Vanhanen wrote that Helsingin Sanomat had received nearly 800,000 Finnish individuals' location data for free from international data brokers. According to him, the data could be used to identify soldiers, members of parliament, and critical infrastructure workers, as well as to uncover their homes and movement patterns. Vanhanen assessed that the availability of location data could pose a serious vulnerability to Finland's national security and also jeopardize the privacy of ordinary citizens. He wrote that a foreign state's intelligence service might not necessarily need to breach information systems if it could purchase the data. Vanhanen suggested that Finland should begin preparing a Data Shield legislative package concerning the security of location data. He proposed that the commercial resale of precise location histories be prohibited, that the location protection of those working in security-critical tasks be strengthened, and that the responsibilities of authorities be clarified. Furthermore, he argued that Finland should advocate for stricter EU restrictions on the commercial resale of location data of identifiable individuals. https://t.co/iheRSEpv9j #Tietosuoja #KansallinenTurvallisuus #Yksityisyys (translated)

Henri Vanhanen wrote that Europe should take a greater role in defining the peace terms for Ukraine. According to him, Donald Trump tried to entice Vladimir Putin to peace with concessions, even though Russia continued the war and new flexibilities were expected from Ukraine. Vanhanen pointed out that Europe spent tens of billions of euros to defend Ukraine but largely let Washington direct the negotiations. Vanhanen demanded Germany resolve the delivery of Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine and for other countries to strengthen Ukraine’s long-range strike capability. He also suggested that Europe should find a way to more broadly utilize Russia’s frozen state assets of about 200 billion euros, increase pressure on Russia’s oil revenues, and boost military support for Ukraine if the war of aggression continued. He argued that Europe should ensure that Trump’s diplomacy is not based solely on offering new concessions to Russia. https://t.co/pilGKhN9F1 #Eurooppa #Ukraina #Trump (translated)

Nowadays, at the beginning of the electoral term, a specific spending line is set for four years, and deviating from it within the framework system is not possible. Koskela says in an interview with STT that the framework of economic policy should also be considered more broadly in terms of the debt brake. #valtiontalous #Vasemmistoliitto #talouspolitiikka (translated)

Minja Koskela presents a major reform to the state economy to the Left Alliance party council, according to which the framework procedure for the state budget should be changed to also consider the revenue side and to moderate the adjustment amounts. #valtiontalous #Vasemmistoliitto #talouspolitiikka (translated)

Henri Vanhanen wrote that it was difficult to say whether Germany's Alice Weidel and France's Marine Le Pen were imitators of Donald Trump or sympathizers of Vladimir Putin, and according to him, the difference may not necessarily have mattered for the outcome. He mentioned that Weidel had declared the war in Ukraine a defeat and demanded an end to Germany's support, while Le Pen wanted to limit France's financial support to Ukraine. According to Vanhanen, politicians aiming for power in Europe's large countries had a short-sighted attitude towards Russia, European history, and security. He warned Finland not to assume that the rest of Europe would inevitably follow the same path as Finland. He did not consider the AfD's entry into the German federal government in the coming years to be likely but assessed that the strengthening of political forces like the party would pose serious security policy problems. Vanhanen also wrote that the Kremlin was monitoring Europe's electoral calendars. According to him, Putin would have no reason to rush negotiations if he believed that Ukraine's supporters would be replaced by leaders who were less sympathetic to Ukraine. Vanhanen noted that Europe's center-right parties had not responded in a timely manner to citizens' immigration concerns, which had allowed room for radical alternatives. He viewed the problem not as a demand for stricter immigration policies, but in that these movements were also bringing to power forces that represented admiration for authoritarianism, opposition to Ukraine, and sympathy for Russia. He assessed that decisions about Europe's security would be made both on the battlefields of Ukraine and in European elections, emphasizing that this should also be understood in Finland. https://t.co/3s94O0WUiT #Eurooppa #Politiikka #Turvallisuus (translated)

Leena Pihanurmi compared sports organizations to social welfare organizations and considered them to belong to a privileged sector of organizations. She wrote that the Ministry of Education and Culture granted a total of 1.28 million euros in subsidies to the Finnish Volleyball Association for the year 2026. According to Pihanurmi, the association's CEO, Karri Virtanen, engaged in efficient Porsche cars, among other things. Pihanurmi urged familiarity with the report from the National Audit Office for the year 2025. According to her, the audit office estimated that approximately 1.2 billion euros in state grants for sports were granted between 2015 and 2024, and identified significant shortcomings in the funding. Pihanurmi described the findings of the report as indicating that the grant policy had maintained old organizational structures and that sufficiently precise goals had not been defined for the grants. She also wrote that the grant criteria did not encourage effective use of funds or impact, and that the effectiveness of general grants had not been assessed for ten years. According to her, the wealth of organizations was inadequately considered in the assessment of grant needs, even though some sports federations were very financially solid. Pihanurmi reported that the report also criticized the fact that the financial risks related to the corporate structures of the organizations were not sufficiently considered, and that the inadequate guidance of general grants was compensated for by special grants. Additionally, Pihanurmi wrote that the distribution agreement from 2020 still affected the distribution of grants among organizational groups. According to her, municipalities had been granted overlapping funding for the same purposes as state funding for sports, and the Ministry of Education and Culture did not monitor whether the state funding for municipalities was used for activities defined by law. #liikunta #urheilu #valtionavustukset (translated)

Jesse Rauhamo wrote that Finland would use 1,034,000,000 euros for development aid in 2026, which he claimed would amount to 2.83 million euros per day and 118,000 euros per hour. He compared the sum to Finnish families with children, who he said were counting their euros in stores, to elderly people waiting for care, and to the state's increasing borrowing. Rauhamo asked when Finland had become the social office of the whole world. #suomi #kehitysapuu #talous (translated)

Tanja Aidanjuuri claimed that the National Coalition Party was in a hurry to present its own proposals, which, according to her, the Finns Party had been talking about from the beginning. She asked Antti Lindtman whether the National Coalition Party should now also be considered "as a non-acceptable racist party." Aidanjuuri wrote that in her opinion, Lindtman's party could not fit into the same government with the Finns Party, but the National Coalition Party ending up on the same line caused, in her assessment, a decrease in the number of Lindtman's supporters. https://t.co/7rEnmQ5SVK #politiikka #Suomi #valtio (translated)

Jari Parantainen wrote that there was only one explanation for keeping the use of taxpayer funds out of the public eye: According to him, it was known at Yle that its way of using taxpayers' money would not withstand public scrutiny. https://t.co/HCC2xm6E7O #verot #julkisuus #valtionrahoitus (translated)

Juho Hirvelä wrote that entrepreneurship could become attractive again if the old YEL system were restored. According to him, the current situation did not entice people to try, and the state could be losing money annually as businesses closed and new ones remained unestablished. #yrittäjyys #Suomi #talous (translated)

Jussi Salunen wrote that Finland had paid about 25 billion in development aid since the beginning of the millennium. According to him, if citizens needed help with the fuel and energy crisis, the small amount of money intended for travel deductions would be taken from road maintenance funding. Salunen questioned how the solution was sensible and directed his message to the Government of Finland and the Finnish Parliament. #kehitysapua #energiakriisi #Suomi (translated)

Jussi Mäkinen wrote that Finnish immigration discussion, in his experience, had focused on the need for workers in low-paying jobs and funding for the pension system. He criticized that councilor Meri was condemned for speaking about what she thought. Mäkinen also pondered whether conclusions could be drawn from the names of those accepted into the Swedish-speaking medical faculty. Mäkinen criticized Marin's government's decision to raise the compulsory schooling age to 18. According to him, the reform had provided state-funded textbooks and school transportation for upper middle-class high school students, but at the same time enrolled youths in education who might not attend classes. He mentioned hearing from acquaintances in vocational schools in the capital region that, for example, selected students in electrical studies had not showed up for school even after the second academic year had started. Mäkinen also claimed that educational institutions received funding based on the names on student lists, even if the student did not show up. Mäkinen wrote that the proportion of those completing secondary education had risen from about 77.9 percent to 79.4 percent among those young people who turned 20 by the spring of that year. He challenged Meri to publish a positive update when the students on the list would have graduated. Mäkinen estimated that nearly 90 percent of those accepted to high school had Finnish backgrounds and nearly 90 percent of those accepted to vocational schools had immigrant backgrounds. He also shared that his friend, a Master's degree holder in business sciences who had come to Finland as a refugee from Kosovo, had said that they had learned better Finnish on a football team than in a classroom with immigrant-background students. Finally, Mäkinen reminded of a previous discussion where it was deemed important to transfer Finnish children from their local school to a school where the majority of students belonged to the S2 language group. He wrote that the backgrounds of the names on vocational school student lists could not yet be discussed. #maahanmuutto #koulutus #suomi (translated)

Matti Reinikka criticized Yle's justification that transparency in spending would endanger freedom of speech. He wrote that freedom of speech includes the right of people to access information, especially about public matters, and considered the justification absurd. According to Reinikka, the elimination of the Yle tax was the only way forward, and state media was unnecessary. https://t.co/RbgZxdTfzI #sananvapaus #avoimuus #media (translated)

Roni Arvonen wrote that, according to his estimate, Finland's state debt is growing by about 13.5 billion euros per year at the current rate. He estimated that if five consecutive right-wing governments balanced the economy as well as the current government, the state would accumulate about 270 billion euros more in net debt over 20 years. Arvonen compared this amount to Finland's approximately 234 billion euro annual GDP and estimated that the new debt would correspond to about 115 percent of GDP. He criticized the current government's representatives from the right, particularly the National Coalition Party, for talking about historical cuts and economic measures. According to him, while expenses had been cut, it was not enough to make a significant impact. Arvonen added that interest and the burdens of old debts were not taken into account in the calculations. #velka #talous #BKT (translated)

Juho Hirvelä wrote that there had been discussions in Finland about lowering the fuel distribution obligation and that the Finns Party was said to support it, while according to him it did not seem suitable for the National Coalition Party and the Swedish People's Party. He asked whether fuel taxes in Finland were too high and whether it would be reasonable for the government to return half of the extra tax revenue from high fuel prices to motorists as a tax reduction. According to Hirvelä, the state was collecting unprecedented amounts of money in taxes. #polttoaine #verotus #Suomi (translated)