Finding solutions for increased private investments in sustainable development
Achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) during this decade will require significant changes to the way the public and private sectors...
Business expected to respect human rights – regulation considered both in Finland and at EU level
Debate on regulating responsible business conduct is going strong. Initiatives related to due diligence are in the spotlight. Due diligence refers to the...
Stricter regulation of digital giants needed
A number of digital and social media companies have grown so large that their activities are starting to have harmful effects on society as a whole. The...
Market surveillance reform improves the operating environment for businesses and consumers
The first waves of the market surveillance reform have now arrived, with the Government submitting to Parliament a proposal for amendments to the Act on the...
EU single market helps to recover from COVID-19 crisis
The COVID-19 crisis has shown the importance of the EU’s single market for citizens and businesses. A well-functioning single market is needed for...
Are there any summer jobs available?
These are exceptional times in many ways, and summer jobs are no exception. At the beginning of the year, summer jobs were being posted via the public...
Tuula Haatainen: We must take fast and effective action to ensure the functioning of the labour market
The situation in the labour market and in the business sector has seen a dramatic turn for the worse following the coronavirus outbreak. This is no time...
Minister of Economic Affairs Mika Lintilä: Support will be given to entrepreneurs facing hardship
We are making determined efforts to help Finnish companies suffering from the difficulties caused by the coronavirus.
Productivity improvement should play a central role in social policy
Productivity and economic growth should be among the key social policy objectives, according to professor Matti Pohjola. In his report Technology,...
New EU regulation on mutual recognition – towards a better functioning single market for goods
A new EU regulation on the mutual recognition of goods will apply as of April 2020. It aims to improve the free movement of goods across the EU Single Market...
Innovation for sustainable development the key Finnish companies’ success
Finnish companies are starting to understand and recognise the opportunities that sustainable development can offer for their innovation activities....
Business development always makes sense
A few weeks ago, Mika Haavisto, who manages a project facilitating business ownership transfers, wrote in the Ownership Transfer Forum’s blog (in...
Would life be better if we had stayed out of the single market?
“Things are in a bad way.” “The EU is again regulating on trivialities.” It is easy to throw such jibes, accusing the EU of one thing or another. Yet there...
