Prime Minister Petteri Orpo (NCP) gestured during a question-time debate in parliament in Helsinki on Thursday, 14 March 2024. Orpo on Thursday unveiled the first details of a government bill designed to bolster security on the border between Finland and Sweden. Helsingin Sanomat reported that it remains uncertain whether the bill has the support of all four ruling parties, given that it stands in some tension with international treaties. (Vesa Moilanen – Lehtikuva)
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PRIME MINISTER Petteri Orpo (NCP) on Thursday offered Members of the Finnish Parliament the first details of a bill designed to bolster security at the border between Finland and Russia.
Helsingin Sanomat wrote yesterday, citing information it has obtained, that the so-called refoulement act is expected to grant authorities responsible for upholding border security relatively extensive rights to refuse entry to migrants sent to the border as part of a hybrid campaign by a foreign state, such as Russia.
The migrants could be removed from the country forcibly, if necessary.
that over 200 of the applicants have disappeared since arriving in reception centres, according to an estimate by the National Bureau of Investigation (KRP).
KRP yesterday told the public broadcasting company that the arrivals include dozens who, based on a provisional assessment, might pose a threat to national security.
Such people can include people with ties to armed groups or extremist organisations, people who have participated in hostilities, people who are subject to an international arrest warrant, people who are believed to have used forged travel documents, people who may have participated in human smuggling, or people who have been convicted of a criminal offence or imposed an entry ban in the Schengen Area.
Aleksi Teivainen – HT
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