Newspaper Helsingin Sanomat covered the significant decrease in Finnish purchasing power in the past few years.
While many in Finland might be smiling that their paychecks are getting bigger, HS wrote that the flipside of that has been prices increasing faster than wages.
Since 2020, consumer prices in Finland have risen by 18.6 percent, compared to Statistics Finland's median salary figures showing an increase of around 10 percent between January 2020 and January 2024.
In December, the Taxpayers Association of Finland (TAF), an interest group, highlighted that 2023 was the third consecutive year in which the purchasing power of salary earners fell.
However, in the light of current forecasts, purchasing power is set to pick up this year as a result of a reduction in payroll taxes and a rise in real wages, HS pointed out.
According to TAF's estimates, these will boost the purchasing power of average earners by a total of 2.3 percent in 2024. But this will only correct last year's decline in purchasing power, not the other years preceding it.
Sweden buys Patria 6X6s
Business daily Kauppalehti reported that Sweden will buy more than 300 armoured vehicles from Finnish defence contractor Patria.
Under the contract, the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) will purchase a total of 321 six-wheeled armoured vehicles from the Finnish defence firm.
The contract is worth approximately 470 million euros and is one of Patria's largest ever in Sweden.
"Sweden is an increasingly important market for us and we are pleased to support the Swedish Defence Forces during their significant expansion. We are confident that we will be able to deliver quickly, as we have done in the past," Patria's Head of Nordic Market Area, Mats Warstedt, said in a press release.
The Patria 6x6 vehicle was selected as the platform for a joint Common Armoured Vehicle System (CAVS) cooperation programme between several European countries, in which Finland, Latvia, Sweden and Germany are already participating.
Not quite old enough for a summer job
If you feel you're unqualified for the job you're applying to, tabloid Iltalehti has a story you can relate to.
The Helsinki and Uusimaa Hospital District (HUS) received an application for a radiologist from nine-year-old Mio.
In his handwritten cover letter, Mio said he saw the job advertisement on the bus.
"I'm nice. I want to help people and see their bones at the same time," Mio explained in the letter.
Siiri Koutola, a Human Resources Specialist at HUS, told IL by email that Mio's application letter arrived electronically, as a photo of the letter was sent to the recruitment email.
"We appreciate the self-initiative, motivation and desire to help conveyed in the application," Koutola wrote.
While Mio might be too young for a summer job at HUS, arrangements are being made to give him a tour of the radiology department.
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