Germany opens a third funding call to support early-stage overseas hydrogen projects, reinforcing government backing for international hydrogen development
Daimler Truck seeks to co-develop hydrogen vehicle technology with Toyota, signaling a German-Japanese collaboration to advance automotive hydrogen power.
Sitra launched a continuous funding call for data- and AI-driven public-sector reforms delivering at least €10M productivity gains by 2030 and scaling tenfold by 2035; Sitra may fund up to 50 percent.
Use agentic AI to automate repeatable, cross-organizational public-sector functions (e.g. application intake, permitting) instead of siloed, organisation-specific projects.
Embedding AI in machines shifts competition to tech integration; Finland's strengths in industrial digitalisation, wireless and embedded systems position it to capture physical AI business.
Sitra processes stakeholder personal data on legitimate interest, retains most contacts 4 years (core stakeholders longer), limits sensitive-data access and may transfer data outside EU under SCCs.
A new foresight review finds climate warming and biodiversity loss will reshape Finland across seven sectors, demanding immediate adaptation and systemic renewal by 2040.
From 2025 a Finnish public funder intensified funding via targeted open calls to support projects on economic growth, data & AI, democracy and polarization, and the sustainability transition
Early, quality stakeholder dialogue is essential for successful green investments in Finland; a new open funding call will support municipalities to strengthen resident and stakeholder engagement
Global sovereign bond yields have surged to multiyear highs after a new market participant entered, a historic shift likely to impact Finnish borrowers and investors.
Rising prices forced the Finns Party in Finland into a defensive stance; voter-pleasing measures are visible but expensive, and governing has drained their prior opposition gains.
Leaders of the world's two most powerful countries met; a China correspondent unpacked how the trip played out and its implications for Beijing and Washington.
Chinese President Xi Jinping made a historic White House visit and urged rivals to coexist peacefully, signaling a major US-China diplomatic engagement.
Meta launched Muse-powered Ray-Ban AI glasses before OpenAI, entering consumer AI devices, but its hardware-led strategy remains unproven and faces privacy criticism.
China's carbon price is shaped by policy design: enforce quota scarcity, phase in paid allowances, open to financial institutions, and link price to targets and investment.
A global coalition is urging universal access to clean energy—mainly solar, wind and batteries—by 2030, mobilizing funds, community organizing and a global Sun Day to replace fossil fuels rapidly
China’s cleantech exports last year avoided 374 million tonnes of CO2—more than the UK's annual emissions—highlighting China's growing role in global decarbonisation via green-tech exports
Canada ended 11-year tariffs on Chinese solar panels after a procedural review because local producers did not participate, reopening the market though near-term effects are limited.
Nearly €3 million allocated to rural development in Southwest Finland; Satakunta's 27 Leader projects received €333,000, with the largest grant going to Pyhäjärvi.
75 gambling firms are competing to enter Finland as high local gambling levels and a stable operating environment create a lucrative billion-euro market.
Helsinki plans to site new corporate headquarters on a neighborhood's only recreational area and reserve waterfront plots to attract more listed-company head offices to the capital region.
Fuel prices have surged in Finland, raising pressure on the government to lower prices; the article compiles measures and experts' assessments of their effectiveness.
Italian Fascists adopted samurai and bushido imagery to give Fascist nationalism spiritual legitimacy and a model of honorable, self-sacrificial militarism
LLM-assisted literature reviews give accurate simple classifications but contextual measurement errors can distort paper-level conclusions; standard model metrics don't ensure robust downstream inference.
Gas lobby urged Victoria to repeal the new-build gas ban, using claims of rising household bills and a detailed political playbook ahead of the election
Platform signatories to the DSA-recognized Code published Jan-Jun 2026 reports; VLOPs/VLOSEs now subject to independent audits, six-month reporting, and upcoming Commission dialogues.
China cancelled two-thirds of planned overseas coal plants since its pledge, cutting 61.5GW and averting ~6.4 billion tonnes CO2; state sector led progress while private projects continue.
EU Business & Biodiversity Platform is mobilizing private sector action at COP17 to scale nature-positive business via measurement, finance, disclosure and policy engagement
State-of-nature metrics are being integrated into TNFD and SBTN to enable businesses to set targets, disclose impacts, and transform toward nature-positive business models.
The 2026 energy crisis, combined with supply-chain disruptions and climate impacts, is raising costs and making it harder to deliver climate action at scale.
Hackers claim they stole personal data of all US FBI staff — names, roles, badge numbers, home addresses, phone numbers and spouse details; FBI is investigating.
SOSTE (Finland) outsources IT and stores member data on external servers, and shares event participants' personal data with hotels, transport and service vendors to provide services and meet obligations.
Finnish government cuts to social and health NGOs will eliminate irreplaceable services and 2,000–3,000 NGO jobs, leaving vulnerable people without help
Cuts to NGO funding shrink preventive and low-threshold services, shifting costs and service pressure onto Finnish municipalities and worsening local service equality
EU warns of rapid deterioration in northern Ethiopia after TPLF seized Mekelle, Axum and Shire airports and amid government drone strikes; calls for immediate de-escalation, IHL protection and AU-led mediation.
Governments are revisiting taxing AI-generated digital work—echoing past robot-tax debates—as automation rises, but taxing AI-produced labor is difficult.
Finland proposes expanding tax-deductible donations (individuals' deduction moved to tax at 30%, min €500) and allowing tax-free employer-paid legal advice for work-related cases
Australia proclaims climate security as national security internationally, but continued approvals of new coal and gas projects undermine its climate leadership credibility.
UK Warm Homes Loan Scheme gives lenders grants to lower interest rates on loans for solar, batteries and heat pumps, making installations cheaper to finance and expanding market access
Stora Enso plans to close its Kristiinankaupunki corrugated packaging plant and relocate production to Lahti; change negotiations start immediately in Finland