well as 5 parties be led by a young woman but 2 thirds of the new cabinet are women as well yes that's right it's even for finn that this is a new record of female leaders and especially their age is very young but tell us about the finnish politics men for our international audience or you know a 5 party coalition the social democrats who are the lead party the prime minister's spot here they had less than 20 percent of the vote in the election just passed when that is a quite remarkable reaves well how do you manage to keep coherent living for 5 parties in a coalition of the like having cats well this is this is not uncommon with the finnish finnish politics. has happened several times that there are many different parties and especially these are small parties who get just a fraction of the wards they sometimes even become kingmakers when the big parties

they don't want to work with each other so they they just go and collect the small parties together and form a government like like right now but they finish politics is somehow you you could even say boring a lot doesn't happen in the polling i love the strays a lot doesn't. but a lot has happened were for because i think it must be one of the most reported events and to lashley to have this this new cabinet led by young woman but this is a huge story internationally yes it is that there is like i think finland has never got more attention to its new government than now and mainly because these are women and these are young women most of them then again you know finland is a consensus society there was a research that. researchers examine the variety of opinion within the

finnish parties and they came out with the result that if you look at the diversity of opinion in of the finished parties from the right to the left. they will all fit into one party one swedish party is diversity of opinion and this is why the has been like for a country like finland which is only 5000000 people and i'm basically in my opinion of. a new unity government. were of the parties could always be part of the government would be much better solution than this measure already forming the government because they really don't differ in opinion as much as you know they could they could handle the even if they look different policy opinions of the simply have fights because they've been the last prime minister fell because of a very fractious industrial dispute which turned into an argument between the

social democrats and the center bar that that's you know that's a hard in finnish politics you your not a lot would lie knowingly so if a politician if a finnish politician. tells a lie and is caught he or she is caught then that's the end of the game for this specifically telling a lie to parliament or just war generally this is what is different with the finnish politics because the integrity of the politicians is really important and the previous prime minister he did lie to the to the parliament and so a socialist was about the post office it was about the post office destroyed and how it was handled so that was the issue not not the strike itself or the you know how it was handled but how do you it dissipate the son of marine and the new coalition government will tackle for example the the post as

a something that she'll be able to to settle reasonably quickly over libya thought and her side as well well that is already gone and put it behind and you should also understand that the reason that this became a big bigger than normal crisis for the government was that the center party was one of the biggest parties in the coalition they had just had a change of leader so catholic woman who became the leader of the center party she also wanted to show some power and reshuffle the government and get a better position for herself and that's why this was basically she was the one who said that we don't trust 3 in there anymore so i'm interested from europe opinion. do you think having the cabinet dominated by women will lead to more consensus or will it just be years as fracture service power struggles between the parties as

the previous administration you know interestingly in finland this gender issue has been that important and even today it's not really that important but i think one of the biggest problem of this government and the prime minister is lack of experience you know it's it has been portrayed as a very positive issue that these are young and these are women and the world is congratulating finland for that and of course it's a positive issue if they did have the competence but unfortunately or naturally you know being young is also means you have less experience and this is going to be a problem so i would be very surprised if this government would still be in place in one year now where you see the prime ministers of experience thought of sexism. is this something you would say for an inexperienced male politician if you're the

new male prime minister $34.00 would you be as i don't feel about. a little level of experience that that person had oh absolutely yes. you know we had the the the 2nd youngest before marrying the 2nd youngest prime minister we had a score in the beginning of the ninety's he was 36 when he became prime minister he also was quite an experienced and he came during a very difficult time it wasn't there was an international financial crisis but he made all the choices you know this bite the advice of economists. he devalue it at the finish currency against other currencies it was before the e.u. and before the euro and at the time when a lot of businesses they had hard currency loans and people in fear that their their homo's were in dollars or german market. and he devalue it at the finish

finish currency and thousands tens of thousands of businesses went bankrupt a lot of people lost everything many people committed suicide and even today this is very interesting because one of the issues that today in finland is being discussed is the lack of babies you know people are not making babies that reproduction is $1.00 babies per one adult and the research is wondred research the reasons why. young people are not making babies they realize that many of these people grew up during a school or has time. and they still remember the hardship and southern change of fortune which has has you know traumatized them for life and voters are blamed for many things but the son usually to be blamed for lack of fertility and

a number of births in the column but surely sally molly knowingly the president of experienced real predecessor of 20 years ago would be very careful not to repeat the state i certainly hope so and i want to reiterate and. strongly say that in finland is really doesn't matter women have had many important roles and for me personally it doesn't matter if a decision maker is female or male but i think there should be a competence for the job and for the responsibility that will of course as a newspaper editor you must congratulate the new prime minister and generating all this wonderful until last all copy and inquiries and interest. has been a positive news for finland i certainly hope it will continue and she will do well and she will become an example for others but time will show of course the one in.

portent issue about finland and finance politics is that finland is a country that could function without a government for a very very long time because the civil service would run 30 yes civil servants there is a highly experienced highly reliable on corrupt civil servant layer who actually they are the ones who are running everything and one of the things they do is when a new minister comes they brief the minister they tell her what you can do what you can't do and of course the ministers want to. you know run their political agenda programme but it's very much the civil servants who will run everything this is an international problem not the finish problem only because the elected officials you know for any other job you need to have a competence for example son a marine would not get the job in any of the mysteries based on her c.v.

to lead a small section of that the ministry what because she's an elected official she's been giving the 1st she was a transport minister and now she is the prime minister it doesn't make sense i mean there should be even inside the more crossing there should be some sort of competence level requirement when it comes to high responsibilities jobs because sometimes the consequences could be really far reaching coming up after the break we continue our discussion on feminist politics will the new year bring new challenges. i am. thousands of american men and women choose to serve in the country's military and the decision. every thing came to

a complete. the day that i was raped and. you know told to shut up there kill me and i see how it destroyed my life any screamed at me and he made me come in and he grabbed my arm and he write me with his birthing area if you take into account that women don't report because of the extreme retaliation and it's probably somewhere near about half a 1000000 women have now been sexually assaulted in the us military is a very very traumatizing thing tat happen but i've never seen trauma like i've seen from women who are veterans who have suffered military sexual trauma reporting rape is more likely to get the victim punished don't be offended and almost 10 year career or chose very invested in and i gave a sex offender who was not even put to justice or put on the registry this is simply an issue of our in violence male sexual predators for the large part of target whoever is there to prey upon whether that's a man or woman. shows

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welcome back to the hotel comp one of the get on to tales a europe fuss built during the belly of paul and helsinki is a city to the extent grew up a right in this hotel just as funny society has been built right into consensus and its political system we continue our discussion of what the new year office for these politics. things have been rubbing along quite well for a little bit recently voted as the the happiest country on earth. a united nations agency so if the civil service according to yourself is running the happiest country and they have the they must be doing a pretty good job of course there is a lot of debate about those results when you when they ask talk to people are you really the happiest people and people say i don't know i i don't think of myself as a happy person if you put

a camera in the center of which would detect people's emotion happiness would not be the main or number one it's not because or have the mufflers on because you know even for scott is quite parky so i could hear it yes but the village people are very content and they are extremely obedient to earth already and interesting enough the other happy countries on the planet tend to be the nordic nabl so little but that of the self is interesting because obviously finland is not as rich as norway it's called the book but you you've put your neighbors at the post to become the happiest country there's a lack of leaves you must use surely well the the north the welfare system has been functioning well and it has been functioning well for a long time and it it it has been because they have they have taken this model from each other and it has been a semi socialist system government owns

a lot of companies and resources instax in people high but then giving them many services for free and so on and equality has been more or less in place so that also comes through the education part of you know because finland has been many times announced as one of the best education systems in the world but if you look at it is. it comes down very much to the quality of people because all these kids when they go to a school they none of them is hungry none of them are having lack of material problems that health care is free they have been checked since they were born for free and so on and so on so basically that the last layer which is the learning and education that really doesn't differ that much. from other well being countries i saw

a comparison recently between finland on the one hand and america on the other by a couple of journalists and writers one of whom was american who heard of who was phyllis the molly a little wrote last to go pointing out that although they paid much higher tax and phil and they went through the whole range of things that they didn't have to worry about when not in finland because gray anxiety when they were in new york you for example childcare for example the education system for example college fees and what you went through all these things are provided as part of the the finnish welfare system and there of course was a different balance between tax but the point that they made was protect the interest and it was the lack of anxiety and fretting about these major the bills that were looming for families and the you york when they were in finland staying in finland little of the worry about that's right that's right you know in finland

the population pays taxes to the government and government they scare of all of this and usually everything he's high quality child care schools public schools are very high quality health care public health care is very high quality in general i think one of the problems one coffin that is compared to other countries is that it's more well being a country like finland with 5000000 people which would fully fit in many cities in the world is comp. 2 whole countries like if you compare it like indonesia or china or even the us when in reality if you want to get more accurate comparison results you should compare finland to a city or or the well in part of a city then you would get a better result because here the quality is in this a small population you know it's good but it has its limits if you would add

102150000 people who need social care the system will break it won't work anymore that brings us on to some of the the challenges that. politics will face the new government will face how would you have allies and what are your readers tell you about the issues immigration for example is. an issue which is growing in importance in finland the question of the new language obligations of terms of sweet this is that something has been resisted by some say such as the rise of the the populous rate to challenge the us political offer those in finland yes these are you know finland doesn't have many huge national level problems immigration has always been a topic in politics the swedish language which you mentioned which has always been the 2nd official language of finland but now. one of the coalition parties the

swedish people's party who actually runs on the agenda of swedish language they want to make it compulsory part of final exams of high schools. which of course people don't like that but i think the there is not the big reaction because people know that the next government which most probably will be the right right wing parties will be a right wing coalition to the place that the left same tool coalition you have in the present moment yes i i think that most probably if nothing happens the next prime minister will be the leader of the finns party which is growing in popularity the party is in finland really there the diversity of their opinions is not really far from each other it's they are not really that much against each other there are a few issues that they disagree but on most of other issues how to run the world

fair state and. on major issues they agree immigration is one of the issues that you know if you go to the fin spotting which is on the right they disagree they want much less immigration or the rules but the left says you know we can have more people coming alexis i want to ask your question. sure you can judge as a journalist. journalistic factual answer and that is for your readership in the helsinki times if they were asked to put their level of interest was in having the the youngest prime minister in the planet on the one hand and finland qualifying for the 1st time in ages for the european championships and the other than what would be what would be paid would depict the football or the politics. i would have you know if i would answer instinctively i would say football but

when i looked at the statistics before i come to this show actually we got the most hits for for sun the marines government but there are those very few societies on air which can proclaim that the political system is proving more interesting than the football league yeah at this moment that least and you know in 2 months it could be different 'd now it's because like you so what's no. a lot of to celebrate the the degree of of interest until lastly the new prime minister says it could be toasted for all the copy it provides journalists abroad a quick. scottish tradition as whiskey only scottish. whiskey scotch whisky only one of these finnish splits or whatever scotch whiskey in the quick and past and all you journalists thank you very much alexis like this of others thank you. i'm no delighted to be joined by one of finland's leading edge

a caseless professor in the still the best longest um i'm interested in the new prime minister salam alan 34 years old the youngest prime minister in the world old amount of international attention leading a coalition of 5 past is dominated by young women and yet coming in when the previous call ition the prime minister fell because of arguments flack just nature how do you think it's going to address a key issue like for this education my feeling is that. this young women in the government are the best thing that has happened in finnish politics in a long long time and i expect that they will show a capability of going beyond these fractions and to see that the common good education is something that everybody has access to and which supports everybody's

flourishing and i don't think that there is a better chance to build this kind of dialogue and even unanimous the future oriented effort than this government and this situation with education these government faces. tasks it has to actually expand education it has to mind the fact that it's been underfunded over the past 10 years by previous governments these are challenges but i think that this government should be able to do it and the prime minister's own son i'm on the 1st member of her family to go through university education comes through a rainbow family but these going to be strengths as well as see as she tackles the the challenges on what must be the the key subject of education yes absolutely these young women not only son of marion but also at least 2 other party leaders

who are in the same age range and female in the green party and the left wing party leaders they all share this experience that this kind of public education system is not only the strength of our country but our personal strength. so i think it's a it's a very important unifying factor actually but the spite the optimism which understandably greasers this new coalition firmament. will feel under pressure from the populace right. finland as some else than many countries for example regularly against the teaching of swedish and in for the schools would you assess that there's a danger to the break with the consensus on education yeah there is that risk i think partly because they can kind of rely on spontaneous support from many young students themselves who are so immersed in the world of the social media

that they think that the only the english swedish is obsolete and you know it takes a special effort to make the case and to show that mastering multiple languages is a great asset and i do believe that because you know that the basic provision of swedish language in the finnish side it's a constitutional issue that it cannot be very easily attacked but there is that wield to do that in those political quarters that you mentioned and that's one of the challenges that this government will have to face because at the moment these cold winds around the world. for nationalism and i would say quite the ultra right wing populism. we are not immune to those professing the storm

represent me with the liquid this is scott's garlic loving cup whiskey only scotch whisky that isn't the quick but take the stay be your book or you'll round and toast continuing success for they said thank you so much they said this is for the new year. ironically for a young woman from the social media age sana modern has come to power under fairly traditional circumstances that is a fractious industrial dispute and beckoning between the coalition partners in the finnish government over the world as a whole looks on in wonder and a country now led by a generation of young women and a cabinet dominated by women that is general approval it looks like a departure from business as usual but in a very real sense surely this new lineup this new political leadership offers the

opportunity for continuity in finland to reestablish the social and economic model that served this country well in the past and may well do so in times to come so for myself i'm tired all of the show it's good bye for now and have a good new year. because a report the 1st episode of 2020. states here overnight are going to have some really special guest dr michael hudson you know back in the seventy's 970 s.

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