SUMMER RECESS

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23.6.2010
     
      As we noted yesterday, the International Edition will be in recess from today, Thursday, and for the whole of the month of July. This is the last occasion when we update the daily items before coming back online at the beginning of August.
      Weeklies will return shortly after we open up again.
     
Though there can be exceptions, July is not traditionally a very "hard" news month in Finland, neither in politics nor in business life, as the country tends to go on holiday from the Midsummer or Juhannus weekend and Finland is more or less "closed" for the duration.
     
Finland’s politicians from the new Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen (National Coalition Party) to anonymous back-benchers will be spending their time pressing the flesh at the country’s countless summer festivals rather than pressing voting buttons in the debating chamber, and will also probably be breathing a sigh of relief that we did eventually manage to get a government formed, and did not threaten Belgium's record.
     
While the world will continue to turn, and news will doubtless be made, we hope that on the Finnish front at least it will be possible to enjoy the short Finnish summer in peace, eat lots of strawberries, leap into lakes from cottage saunas, go to the festivals large and small that dot the length and breadth of the country, and to return refreshed in late July and August.
     
     
We thank all our readers for their attention and for the feedback we have received over the year, and wish everyone a pleasant summer season.
     
     
Our rather-less-than-easy-to-search Archives of earlier stories dating back to 1999 can be found from the link below.


See also:
  Archives dating back to 1999 (rather unwieldy, I´m afraid, but Google is your friend)

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