In Finland, both Finnish and Swedish are official languages and roughly five percent of its 5.5 million population speak Swedish as their mother tongue. Most of the country's municipalities with ...

According to the Helsinki-based think tank Magma, the government's objectives for immigrants to learn the Swedish language as a step towards integration in Finland are too vague. The government's goal ...

Image: Arash Matin / Yle "Although overall consumption is similar between the language groups, the Finnish-Swedish side seems to drink less per occasion and perhaps more socially orientated," ...

Comedy act KAJ, the favourite to win Saturday's Eurovision Song Contest for Sweden, has shone a spotlight on Finland's small Swedish-speaking minority, little-known outside the Nordic region, ...