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Students in Serbia who are on strike have told citizens that victory is closer than ever and to hold on a little longer during today's parliamentary elections, thanking them for their patience and urging them not to give up on voting despite the long lines. #StudentskaLista #izbori #Srbija (translated)

In the run-up to the COP31 climate summit in Turkey, Ika van de Pas advocates for the Netherlands to take responsibility to protect citizens from the effects of climate change, emphasizing that this is not paternalism, but a necessary duty of care. #Klimaatverandering #Duurzaamheid #Overheid (translated)

Juho Hirvelä wrote that the Finns Party council group proposed the day before in the Tampere city council to abolish the internationality voucher. According to him, the voucher would support the employment of foreign students over Finnish students with city funds. Hirvelä stated that the only supporter of the proposal among non-Finns Party representatives was Mats Uotila from the National Coalition Party. The Christian Democrats voted blank, while the rest of the council voted in favor of the voucher. Hirvelä described the voucher as a continuation of the arrangement launched last June to support the recruitment of foreigners without proficiency in the Finnish language, which, according to him, the Finns Party council group had also opposed. He demanded that Finnish citizens not be placed last in decision-making in their own country. #Tampere #Perussuomalaiset #Kansainvälisyys (translated)

The Day Bureaucrat wrote that Saska Saarikoski, the head of the editorial office of Helsingin Sanomat, had worked for five years at the Ydin magazine published by the Sadankomitea and Rauhanliitto, and previously at Ylioppilaslehti, which the author described as almost equally left-wing. According to the author, Esa Mäkinen, the development director of HS and a member of the editorial management team, had previously served as the editor-in-chief and worked at Kansan Uutiset as well as being the editor-in-chief of Ylioppilaslehti. He claimed that Mäkinen had been suspected in the Viestikoekeskus case of revealing state secrets but had avoided charges like editor-in-chief Kaius Niemi by remaining silent during the investigation's interrogations. The Day Bureaucrat described the HS editorial team as otherwise left-wing as well and noted that the backgrounds of Saarikoski and Mäkinen stood out particularly. According to him, other newspapers do not report on their backgrounds in communist media because about 80 percent of journalists were themselves left-wing and shared a similar value system and background. #media #journalismi #vasemmistolisuus (translated)

The author found France's riot situation concerning, especially if the unrest were to spread to other European countries. According to him, the dissatisfaction inherited from the yellow vests, rising living costs, and the inability of politicians could provide an opportunity for those wishing ill upon EU countries to exploit the situation. https://t.co/UJh53fhOC7 #Ranska #Eurooppa #protestit #FR #EU (translated)

Klaus stated that he received a message from a family father and entrepreneur from Espoo, who had approached Riikka Purra via email. According to Klaus, permission had been obtained to share the message. He wrote that he had noticed increasing similar activity in Uusimaa among well-off middle-aged individuals whom he described as patriotic, and he asked if others had made similar observations and what thoughts the message had sparked. #Uudenmaan #perhe #yrittäjyys (translated)

They have made their observations which we are reviewing, but our proposal is still on the table, and if there is any integrity on the American side, which there isn’t, then the path to opening the Hormuz Strait is clear. The Iranian proposal to the United States to open the Hormuz Strait within seven days is still on the table, said Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi to local media on Sunday. #Iran #SAD #HormuškiTjesnac (translated)

"We witnessed the open introduction of Talibanism into the highest legislative body. As the President of the Parliament, Goran Jandroković, did not find it appropriate to react to the disturbing promotion of sadism and violence, we sent him an official protest letter and requested his urgent statement." Speaking about the escalation of hate speech in the political space, she recalled a recent incident in the Croatian Parliament, where a representative of Most advocated for medieval methods of punishment, torture, and public hanging, which passed without any sanctions or reaction from the chair." #govormržnje #Hrvatska #ustaštvo (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)