Aamulehti covers a Gazan asylum seeker who remains in limbo more than a year after applying for refugee status in Finland.
Hamza Alhendi arrived in Finland in 2023 on a visa granted by Finland, before the war started in Gaza. He hoped to complete his medicine degree, which was in the final stages, and has managed to achieve that, thanks to co-operation between professors in Finland and Gaza.
But after the war erupted, he decided it would be best to apply for asylum, given the devastation in Gaza and the continuing violence.
He has now been waiting for a decision for more than a year, with Finland's Immigration Service (Migri) pausing processing of applications from Gazans.
Alhendi is left in limbo, and contrasts his position with that of people from Ukraine. They have had their stays in Finland expedited by special rules for temporary protection due to the situation in their home country.
"Ukrainians don't face the same bureaucracy," said Alhendi. "They too deserve help, but why is the system different for them? Internal displacement is possible in a large country, but not for us. Everyone deserves to be treated equally. Treat us the same as you treat Ukrainians."
At present his passport and visa are held by the police, as his application has not been processed. That means he cannot head elsewhere to try and practice his profession in a country where he could work in English, for example. And so he continues to wait.
Migri declined to comment on individual cases, but said that confirming the identity of asylum seekers could take a long time if they came from unstable countries. The deadline for issuing a decision on asylum cases is 21 months.
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Estonian production
Helsingin Sanomat looks at Finnish manufacturers in Estonia, who moved production there and have a workforce earning wages significantly lower than their Finnish counterparts.
The paper visits a cluster of Finnish plants in Pärnu, on Estonia's west coast, and gets a tour of the Pomarfin shoe factory.
The company shut down production in Pomarkku, a small town in the western region of Satakunta, at the turn of the millennium.
Their current workforce in Pärnu is paid much less, with many of them on the minimum wage. That rose eight percent in January to 886 euros per month.
That forced the factory to increase wages for others by 2.7 percent, to maintain the relative benefits of doing more skilled work.
A lot of Estonian manufacturing has moved to Asia as wages in Europe climb higher, but an influx of Ukrainians fleeing the war in 2022 has provided a new source of labour for some of them.
So for now, production of the Finnish-designed shoes will remain in Estonia.
Defence mindset
EU leaders met on Thursday to hammer out the details of a deal to increase defence spending and support for Ukraine, and eventually came up with an agreement that could see up to 800 million euros of additional funding.
The deal was greeted enthusiastically by Roberta Metsola, the President of the European Parliament, who said it was "about damn time".
Less profane comments came from the Czech President Petr Pavel, who told Czech media that the rest of the continent could learn a thing or two from Finland. His comments were reported by Iltalehti.
Finland has been one of the leading voices in helping Ukraine, and Pavel traces the roots of that back to the Second World War.
Czechoslovakia folded too easily after the 1938 Munich agreement, according to Pavel, giving up territory to Nazi Germany without a fight despite having some defensive capabilities.
Finland's military preparedness was in a worse position in relation to the Soviet Union in 1939, when the Soviets launched an invasion, according to Pavel.
"Despite that the Finns did it, and today we can see where they are," said Pavel in an interview with the CT24 channel. "Then they defended themselves a second time against attack from Germany. Now Finland has more self-confidence than other European states, more self-respect, and you can see that in their attitudes."
