“We Europeans”. Finland: goodbye to neutrality – France 3 – 5 June 2022

Major reporting, guests and European news are featured in the magazine “Nous, les Européens”, presented by Eléonore Gay and broadcast on Sundays at 10:10 a.m. on France 3, as well as late Thursday evenings on France 2. For this new issue of season 3, heading to the Finlandrenowned for its social progress, its education and health systems with high standards, which earned it for the fifth consecutive year to be designated as the happiest country in the world, according to the World Happiness Report…

After decades of neutrality, this Nordic country is asking to join NATO, following the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, with which it shares a border of more than 1,300 kilometres… Since two armed conflicts with Moscow, between 1939 and 1944, Finland made maintaining its good relations with its Russian neighbor a priority, but the war waged on Ukrainian territory since February 24, 2022 has changed the situation. It is a country of 5.5 million inhabitants where the mobilization of citizens on defense issues is total. For example, there are 870,000 reservists, of whom 280,000 can be mobilized immediately…

Finland: united against school bullying!

> THE GREAT REPORT
The fight against school bullying is another front on which the Finns are mobilised. Since 2009, the country has applied a program called KiVa in the majority of schools and cases of bullying have dropped significantly. A unique program in Europe…
A report by Roberto Garçon and Paul Cabanis.

> THE GUESTS

– Paula Aspholmdirector of tourism in Salla.

– Sofie Haggmana conscript in the Finnish army.

– Colonel Sami-Antti KatamaaFinnish military.

-Lauri Illukadirector of the Formula Center Helsinki karting circuit.

– Elina Valtonenmember of the National Coalition Party.

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