Finland's government, beset by racism controversies since taking office in June, has agreed on a common policy to combat intolerance, party leaders said late on Wednesday, preventing a collapse of the four-party, right-wing coalition.
Economy Minister Vilhelm Junnila was soon forced to
over repeated Nazi references while the Finns Party's leader, Finance Minister Riikka Purra, apologised for anonymous online comments posted some 15 years ago that included racial slurs.Finland's April election, said the government on Thursday will present its unified policy on how to tackle racism, following a cabinet meeting.
The policy is Orpo's attempt to reunite the cabinet, in which one of the smaller allies, the centrist Swedish People's Party , in particular, has had a hard time accepting the revelations."The Swedish faction of parliament has approved the outcome of negotiations," Henriksson said in a late-night post on the platform X, formerly known as Twitter.
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