This year, the theme of Women’s Day is “Choose to challenge”. Challenging makes the world vigilant, it results in change. A world of gender equality is better for everyone, including men. How does gender equality affect the world? Celebrate women’s achievements....
The municipal tax rate is a hot debate topic as the elections approach. Reducing the tax rate requires hard work; cutting costs, acquiring new residents, and increasing the income of residents. An amendment to the law may provide opportunities to reduce the tax rate,...
It is important that residential buildings are close to services, transportation links, and nature. Everyone would like shops, kindergartens, other services, roads, and public transportation connections to be close to home. Sometimes the zoning of a residential...
An environmentally friendly energy solution is not always lead to tightening of the municipal tax if the municipality has an energy policy that is supported by the best practices and the latest developments in the field. For example of electricity and heat storage...
What kind of service is needed in a municipality where one can live a lifetime. I think all the services below have to be available in the municipality before being able to live their lives– the core services that make living entertaining. Currently, a large...
Last year, Luxembourg became the first country to have free public transport. Tallinn has also had free public transport for residents since 2014, if I remember correctly. Why other countries do not have free public transport. Is this a crazy idea, financially or...
I was watching a music video by the group Otava Yo with a German exchange student, where the background was a living museum event in Russian Karjala; Karjala/rice pies were being prepared in the video. Exchange student asked if this was filmed in Finland— no,...
In my opinion, public sector social and health services are more efficient than the private sector, but maybe efficiency is not the only criteria. Society sometimes needs services of less efficient private sector services to allow for (freedom) of choice. Having a...
My mother speaks Sinhala, and I have spoken Sinhala at home until I left home. My primary school education was in Sinhala medium as well. This leaves my Sinhala proficiency at quite a low level. On the other hand, English proficiency is at C1 level at worse because of...
As you might be aware I took part in Wife Carrying World Championship last weekend with Anna who was part of the TV crew that came to make a feature about the competition for the German TV show “Life”. It aired today on RTL in Germany. Great memories and...