• teyrnon@sh.itjust.works
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          19 hours ago

          How so? I haven’t had good international news in some time, this used to be the sort of thing I would have read about.

          • greenbit@lemmy.zip
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            18 hours ago

            This gives a bit of a primer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpo_cabinet

            I’ll see if there’s some collection of all the austerity shittification

            Edit this is truthful https://feps-europe.eu/finlands-far-right-government-runs-down-the-welfare-state/

            And a slop-assisted list of some of the most known:

            • Limited political strikes to 24 hours and increased fines for unauthorized work stoppages.
            • Lowered the legal threshold for dismissing employees and expanded local bargaining, undermining national collective agreements.
            • Introduced an unpaid first day of sick leave, penalizing low-wage workers.
            • Cut housing allowances and unemployment benefits, including the removal of child supplements.
            • Froze many social welfare benefits, decoupling them from inflation and reducing purchasing power.
            • Substantially cut funding for social, mental health, and peace-building NGOs.
            • Required work-based immigrants to leave Finland if they cannot find a new job within three months of unemployment.
            • Halved the refugee quota, tightened family reunification rules, and extended the citizenship residency requirement to eight years.
            • Raised the general Value Added Tax (VAT) to 25.5%, driving up the cost of consumer goods.
            • Enforced strict healthcare budget limits, leading to local health station closures and hospital network consolidation.
            • Oversaw a continued climb in the national debt alongside a wave of bankruptcies in the construction sector.
            • Contributed to a highly polarized climate, sparking massive strikes over austerity measures and controversies involving coalition ministers.

            And the highest score in European unemployment rates!

        • SammyJK@programming.dev
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          19 hours ago

          As an unemployed student, can confirm. Anyone with low income is fucked. And there’s a lot of us.