Overnight pages split between a previewed Finns Party health-care cut, warnings of Russian sabotage in NATO states and NATO-driven conscript changes. By morning editors converged on the Finns Party press conference, detailing a nine-billion-euro adjustment package for the next term: abolishing the Environment Ministry, the National Agency for Education and Sitra, an index brake on pensions above 2,000 euros, Yle cuts and new taxes on banks, data centres and sugar, alongside citizenship-based welfare and an end to development aid.
Midday attention diverted to a police investigation request over Google’s Muhos worksite and confirmation Helsinki will host the 2030 European Athletics Championships.
From afternoon onward, following the Oslo-St. Petersburg shuttle, coverage moved to Kyiv, where Prime Minister Orpo was taken to a shelter during an air alert, attended a ceremony shaken by blasts, met Zelensky and announced 300 million euros in deals involving Iceye and Nokia.