Fewer Estonians hired directly by Finnish companies
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Finnish companies have been hiring fewer Estonian workers directly after Estonia became a member of the European Union.
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The Finnish government announced Wednesday it will reduce its stake in TeliaSonera, the Nordic region's largest telecommunications operator, by at least 5.3 percent with the sale of some 250 million shares, ...
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Nokia, the mobile phone company, is standing by its decision to close its factory in Bochum, western Germany. About 2,300 employees are affected along with, according to trade union estimates, up to 2,000 jobs at suppliers and subcontractors. The Finnish company's decision has provoked indignation. The reasons for the public outrage are obvious: Nokia earns EU90,000 a year from each production worker - operating profit at Bochum runs at an annual EU134m. Nevertheless, production will now be shifted to Romania.
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The head of the Estonian Plant Production Inspectorate has said that no early settlement could be expected concerning a Russian ban on the import of Estonian products with plant origin, as Moscow has now taken ...
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UK employees take  fewer days off as a result of short term sickness than workers in most other European countries, a TUC report says.
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Two Finnish banks on Wednesday announced the creation of a new index option invested solely in companies headed by women, pointing out that recent studies indicate such firms are more profitable.
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Finland is recovering from its mobile hangover, says Juha Mikkola. Finnish companies were not making globally hungry business plans and product companies were aiming only for subcontracting, but things are ...
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Israel says Jewish immigration has fallen to fewer than 20,000 in the last year.
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Papermaker and forest products company Svenska Cellulosa AB said Tuesday it would cut 1,200 jobs, or 2.4 percent of its overall work force, as it seeks to cut costs amid competition from rivals and declining demand. Most of the job losses will be at plants in France and the Netherlands.
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Finnish people are exceptionally anti-Russian, shows a wide international Gallup International survey.
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Polls have closed in Estonia where voters were asked to elect a new parliament. It's widely believed that they will return to power the coalition made up of Prime Minister Andrus Ansip's centre-right Reform ...Comment
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Nestled between Finland and Sweden, just 65 of the islands are inhabited, home to a mere 26,000 people, mostly farmers, artisans and service workers.
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The party of Estonia's prime minister, who pledged to preserve the market-friendly policies credited with the Baltic nation's impressive growth, narrowly won parliamentary elections Sunday, official preliminary ...Comment
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Shipbuilding company Aker Finnyards will cut 315 jobs from its three Finnish shipyards.
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WARSAW (Der Spiegel) -- Young Polish workers have flocked in the hundreds of thousands to the UK, Ireland and Sweden to find work since Poland's EU entry in 2004. Now Poland is faced with a serious lack of skilled workers and Warsaw wants to entice them back home. One of Poland's biggest exports since joining the European Union has been its own people. But now Warsaw has decided the brain drain needs to be reversed and the government has launched a campaign to entice the migrants to come back home. Get the whole story here
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German unemployment falls much less than expected last month, raising concerns that the labour market could be flagging.
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To date, only 20 per cent of Finnish households have digital TV sets, yet manufacturers believe all Finns to have joined the digital age by August 2007 when analogue broadcasting is to end.