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Here in Finland, this does happen, yes. But the larger problem is "gray money"; everyone goes to the same business parties and sauna retreats (expenses paid of
by jarcane 8y ago
Here in Finland, this does happen, yes. But the larger problem is "gray money"; everyone goes to the same business parties and sauna retreats (expenses paid of course), is friends with everyone.
more recently there's the novel shortcut of the business people themselves just running for office. Our current PM has a long list of business interests, including lobbying the Modi government on behalf of a startup he co-owns to sell them a chemical plant. His family also has holdings in a mining company that has received considerable amounts of government money, a fact he actually tried to cover up with in the Finnish state media Yle.
So painting this as "why is it business' fault what government does!" is more than a little misleading. Government doing exactly what business wants is the whole problem.
- xte 8y agoThanks for such news, here in France and in my home country Italy, we do not here anything at all... Well I know YLE because of an ancient article about their "Nuntii Latini" news but substantially nothing else. Apart of YLE in English (witch feel... A bit limited) did you know other finnish media in English?
- jarcane 8y agoThere's Helsinki Times, which is about the only Finnish news media in English that even attempts to report on the bad side of Finnish politics. So much of the English language media here is just stories about "Wow, isn't Finland great?!" Yle English even cuts up stories from their Finnish versions to elide some of the more embarrassing details. It's beyond frustrating.
- xte 8y agoThanks! I'll try it :-) It's not only Finland, I think MANY other countries do the same, unfortunately I can't read Finnish so...