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21.5.2024 | Market Court rejected Heckler & Koch's appeal concerning acquisition of assault rifles Ministry of Defence Publication date 21.5.2024 11.53 Type: Press release On 17 May 2024, the Market Court rejected Heckler & Koch's appeal concerning the Defenc...https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/236553176/market-court-rejected-heckler-koch-s-appeal-concerning-acquisition-of-assault-rifles
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26.11.2021 | The Government has amended the decree that restricts the activities of food and beverage service businesses due to the COVID-19 epidemic. The restrictions on licensing and opening hours will be tightened in areas where the epidemic is in the community transmission phase. In addition, restrictions on food and beverage service businesses will be reintroduced in the region of South Karelia.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/1271139/tighter-restrictions-on-food-and-beverage-service-businesses
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22.11.2024 | The Ministry of Transport and Communications has launched a monitoring project to assess the impacts of the legislative amendments that were needed to implement the Directive establishing the European Electronic Communications Code (EECC). The Code regulates electronic communications (telecoms) networks and services. The Finnish Transport and Communications Agency Traficom will carry out the impact assessment under the Ministry's guidance.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/1410829/project-launched-to-assess-impacts-of-european-electronic-communications-code
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2.7.2020 | On Thursday 2 July, the Government appointed Satu Koskela as Director General of the Department for Clients and Services in Healthcare and Social Welfare at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health. Koskela will take up her duties on 1 September 2020. The appointment is for a fixed period until 31 August 2025.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/1271139/satu-koskela-appointed-as-director-general-of-department-for-clients-and-services-in-healthcare-and-social-welfare-at-ministry-of-social-affairs-and-health
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4.11.2021 | In the fourth supplementary budget for 2021, a net increase of EUR 99.7 million is proposed for the administrative branch of the Ministry of the Interior. This includes EUR 65 million for the procurement of new offshore patrol vessels for the Border Guard, EUR 30 million for safeguarding the operations of the police and EUR 10.38 million for the administrative branch’s expenditure arising from the COVID-19 pandemic and internal border controls.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/1410869/close-to-eur-100-million-increase-proposed-for-the-ministry-of-the-interior-s-administrative-branch
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5.1.2022 | The Government has amended the decree restricting the activities of restaurants and other food and beverage service businesses due to the COVID-19 epidemic. Restrictions on food and beverage service businesses that are necessary to prevent the spread of the epidemic will be introduced in Åland.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/1271139/restrictions-on-food-and-beverage-service-businesses-applicable-in-community-transmission-areas-to-be-introduced-in-aland
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23.11.2021 | In the future more advanced solutions will be needed to enable more detailed data collection from jobseekers and to update the data on the number and specific descriptions of open vacancies in real time. Digital platforms and artificial intelligence could propose to us in a cost-effective way where to target our efforts.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/1410877/intelligence-and-artificial-intelligence-are-key-to-improving-labour-market-matching
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11.2.2022 | The Government has amended the decree that restricts the activities of food and beverage service businesses due to the COVID-19 epidemic. This means that the opening and licensing hours of all food and beverage service businesses will be extended. In addition, the restrictions on the use of the COVID-19 passport will continue until the end of February.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/1271139/restaurant-restrictions-eased-restrictions-on-use-of-covid-19-passport-extended
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30.9.2021 | The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment appointed a new cooperation group to support the Ministry in coordinating the development and preparedness measures on security of supply at the Government level. The term of group is from Oktober 1 2021 to 30 September 2024.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/1410877/cooperation-group-to-coordinate-development-of-government-s-security-of-supply-operations
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24.11.2021 | The EU Competitiveness Council meeting in Brussels on 25−26 November will focus on the regulation of activities of the largest digital companies and improvements to safety of users of various online intermediation services. The agenda for space issues includes the financing of companies in the sector and the management of space transport.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/1410877/competitiveness-council-to-discuss-regulation-of-digital-giants-internet-user-safety-and-research-innovation-and-space-issues
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20.3.2025 | Today, the Government submitted to Parliament a legislative proposal on a new gambling system. The Government proposes to end Veikkaus' gambling games monopoly in betting and in online slot machine and casino games at the end of 2026, and to open the provision of these games to competition.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/1410869/gambling-system-reform-licensing-introduced-to-open-betting-and-online-casino-games-market-to-competition
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22.12.2021 | The Government has amended the decree restricting the activities of restaurants and other food and beverage service businesses due to the COVID-19 epidemic. As from 24 December 2021, the use of the COVID-19 passport will be restricted for about three weeks. The restrictions on food and beverage services businesses that are necessary to prevent the spread of the epidemic will be introduced in the region of North Savo, while restrictions will be lifted for the Åland Islands.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/1271139/restrictions-on-opening-hours-and-serving-of-alcoholic-beverages-in-food-and-beverage-service-businesses-use-of-covid-19-passport-restricted
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21.11.2024 | On 21 November 2024, the Government submitted to Parliament its proposal to amend the budget proposal for 2025. The Government proposes funding for the Digirail project, which involves the modernisation of Finland's rail traffic control system, and several rail, urban tramline and road projects. The Government also proposes EUR 400 million for the construction of West Railway, subject to certain conditions.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/1410829/government-proposes-amendments-to-appropriations-for-2025-and-allocates-over-eur-1-billion-to-promote-transport-projects
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2.11.2021 | The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment begins a process for the preparation of a Government report on security of supply. Security of supply and preparedness have become a topic of active public debate following the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic also created a need to build better plans for our security of supply extending across several government terms. The report will support this development workhttps://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/1410877/ministry-of-economic-affairs-and-employment-launches-preparations-for-a-report-on-security-of-supply
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7.10.2021 | Abuse in the accommodation conditions for foreign workers may, at worst, be part of foreign labour exploitation and human trafficking. The task of the working group for monitoring accommodation conditions is to make proposals on how to develop cooperation between the authorities and the relevant regulations and guidelines.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/1410877/working-group-seeks-ways-to-prevent-abuse-in-accommodation-conditions-for-foreign-workers
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29.11.2024 | At its meeting on Friday 29 November, the Ministerial Committee on European Union Affairs received an update on the EU’s climate targets and outlined Finland’s positions on the Commission’s proposal for a directive to harmonise insolvency law.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/ministerial-committee-on-european-union-affairs-discusses-climate-targets-and-insolvency-law
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17.9.2021 | The high-level meetings of the 76th Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 76) will start in New York on Monday 20 September. Minister for Foreign Affairs Pekka Haavisto will attend ministerial events in New York and have bilateral meetings with his counterparts and with representatives of the UN. Minister for Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade Ville Skinnari will represent Finland at several high-level meetings held in virtual format during the week.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/minister-haavisto-to-attend-the-high-level-week-of-the-76th-session-of-the-un-general-assembly-in-new-york-minister-skinnari-will-represent-finland-at-meetings-virtually
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19.11.2020 | On 19 November, the Government submitted to Parliament its proposal to amend the budget proposal for 2021. The proposal will allocate funding for the second phase of future-oriented investments and for increased expenditures arising from COVID-19, among other things. The Government is committed to protecting people’s wellbeing and the ability of businesses to cope during the COVID-19 crisis in Finland, with as few detrimental human and economic consequences as possible.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/10616/government-decides-on-amendments-to-2021-budget-proposal
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11.1.2022 | The Government has amended the decree that restricts the activities of food and beverage service businesses due to the COVID-19 epidemic. From now on, all food and beverage services businesses must close at 18.00. In addition, the restrictions on the use of the COVID-19 passport will be extended until the end of January. The decree on the opening hours of food and beverage service businesses will enter into force on 12 January 2022 at 00.00 and it will remain in force until 31 January 2022.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/1271139/changes-to-opening-hours-of-food-and-beverage-service-businesses-and-to-use-of-covid-19-passport
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27.9.2021 | The 2022 budget proposal envisages a total of some EUR 1,566 million for the main title of the Ministry of the Interior. This total includes EUR 856 million for policing, some EUR 280 million for the Finnish Border Guard, EUR 87 million for rescue services and the Emergency Response Centre Administration, and EUR 160 million for immigration.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/1410869/budget-proposal-appropriations-fail-to-make-up-for-a-deficit-that-has-grown-over-the-years