21.4.2020 | Prime Minister Sanna Marin has spoken on the telephone with UN Secretary-General António Guterres about the UN’s actions to deal with the COVID-19 crisis.

5.6.2020 | The Government wants to secure the financing of unemployment benefits under the emergency conditions caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic.

10.12.2020 | The Government issued a new decree restricting the activities of food and beverage service businesses owing to the COVID-19 epidemic. 

15.9.2020 | The first joint Nordic report on how future of work drivers affect working life and how changes in working life affect labour inspection was published today.

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7.7.2020 | A recent follow-up report stresses that the shared goals presented in the 2030 Agenda are an important tool when the world is addressing the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis. Sustainable development is the theme of an ongoing high-level UN meeting.

18.6.2020 | The restrictions concerning the opening hours, licensing hours and numbers of customers of food and beverage service businesses will be lifted completely from (and including) 13 July 2020. This means that the opening hours and numbers of customers of restaurants, cafes and bars will no longer be restricted under the Communicable Diseases Act, and licensing hours will be determined in accordance with the Alcohol Act.

5.5.2022 | Blog: Why do resolution and deposit guarantee authorities need to care about the green transition? Publication date 5.5.2022 16.55 Type: Press release Resolution and deposit guarantee authorities has been set up to ensure that severe financial pro...

7.5.2020 | The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health has issued new instructions to regional state administrative agencies for the implementation of the government resolution. The regional state administrative agencies are urged to take measures aimed at opening school premises in a controlled manner and continuing restrictions on public events.

13.11.2020 | For the government to formulate policies that address the most pressing questions of the 21st century, it must first address the structural and cultural problems of its policy-making processes. Solving wicked problems requires policy-making that moves away from the illusion of top-down steering into a networked model. The review ’Humble Government’ describes how a humble approach to policy-making can help the Government in building truly long-term policy-making when dealing with wicked problems.