• 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.

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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!