Radio | Clear news | Saturday 16 December 2023
Eastern border. Dog registry. Sports and cultural benefit. Exchange electricity. Weather.
Eastern border closure
The government is preparing new measures due to the situation on the eastern border. Finland opened the eastern border on Thursday. Russia immediately started sending asylum seekers to Finland. That’s why Finland closed the border again on Friday.
Prime Minister Petteri Orpo says that the current situation is not good if the border is opened and closed alternately. Orpo says that the government is preparing new measures that can stop asylum seekers on the eastern border. Fast processing of asylum applications can perhaps be introduced at the eastern border.
Prime Minister Orpo estimates that Russia’s actions are a hybrid attack against Finland and the European Union. Prime Minister Petteri Orpo spoke about it on Yle’s Ykkösaamu program on Saturday.
Dog registry
Finns have registered only a few dogs in the new dog register. All dogs must be registered by the end of the year. There are only about 2 weeks left. You can register online.
Finns have registered only 140,000 dogs in the dog registry. There are about 800,000 dogs in Finland.
The purpose of the dog registry is to reduce puppy mills, i.e. the fact that a lot of puppies are put up for sale just for money.
Sports and cultural benefits
Finns miss out on a lot of the exercise and cultural benefits of their workplaces. Many companies give their employees sports and culture vouchers. The benefit is tax-free for the employee.
The companies distribute sports and culture vouchers worth around 400 million euros per year. Tens of millions of euros in benefits remain unused. This is what the companies that pass sports and culture vouchers from companies to people say. Companies say people don’t always know they have benefits available to them.
Sports and culture vouchers must be used by the end of the year.
Price of electricity
Exchange electricity is cheap again. The price of electricity drops to negative on the night between Saturday and Sunday.
Exchange electricity is also cheap throughout Sunday. On Sunday, the average price of electricity is only about 0.5 cents per kilowatt hour.
Also on Saturday, the price of stock electricity was clearly cheaper than it was earlier this week.
Weather
At night, it snows in the north and east. It is raining and sleeting in the west and south.
On Sunday, it will be cloudy in the whole country, that is, it won’t rain. It will be cloudy in the north, the sun will shine elsewhere on Sunday.
The temperature is between +4 and -5 degrees. The warmest is in the south and the coldest is in the north.