This is the first *conversation* I have ever seen involving a politician. She actually answers the questions. There's no redirection, or sound bytes, or "message". Finland, I've envious!!!
@@chriswhitehouse8982 If you were Finnish, you would only envy countries not having this kind of leader. She was not anyhow challenged in this conservation so you don't see her dark side here, but actually she is notorious for being exceptionally arrogant when even slightestly challenged, and hardly ever standing behind a single word promoted in these PR speeches. Her only merits have been being a young woman and a member in the socialist "Dimmer party" praised by the corrupt leftist block who control the most mainstream media in Finland through at least indirect ownerships and employments, agitating the politically inactive and ignorant people for voting them, with heavy false propaganda. Practically zero politically savvy people here vote the Dimmer party. Now, Sanna Marin has been recently de-elected from her PM post, and she has erned yet another merit - having been not only the youngest, but also the overwhelmingly worst and the most disastrous PM we have ever had! So well, if you really still envy us, welcome here, her disastrous "achievements" are here to stay for long time, waiting for you to enjoy! And in case you don't now what is the Dimmer party, etymology goes, in Finnish language, we call BMW with a nickname "Bemari", as they are caller "Bimmer" in English. And the traditional nickname of the Marin's socialist party SDP is "Demarit" (plural, singular form referring to a single member is "demari"). Therefore, the English nickname must be Dimmer(s), and it is as namesake as anything can be!
@@captainpharaoh -That's true, except for MPs from other Finnish parties who are not the prime minister in the party (perussuomalaiset, kokoumus). 🤔 True is, Ukraine finally wins the war against Russia...(Russia and Vladimir Putin who started the doda😡 with an illegal invasion of Ukraine!!).
You can tell she's not getting every nuance with some of the questions, but she's making the effort to give a direct answer. As a Finn, it's striking to watch how much her English has improved. She sounds much more comfortable with it than when she started as PM. (Damn, it's was only three years ago. Feels like a longer time...)
Good luck trying to learn Finnish. I've been living in Finland for my whole life and still don't know everything. As long as you learn a few words in Finnish like: Kiitos(Thank you), Hei(Hello) and the proper way to pronounce sauna you're good to go.
@@ohiampuvaoraakkeli3107 She is too young to be making decisions like NATO membership. She studied Admin Science, not International Relations. PM should not be a job for anybody under 50.
Sorry, but she is exact opposite about all of those, regrdless of the polished PR. Yeah she is the youngest PM we have had, but mainstream media always forgetting to even hint about that she is also the overwhelmingly worst and the most disastrous one we have ever had.
I agree, NZ needs to do more in research and development and export high end resulting products and services under licence than only low financial return timber, dairy and meat and mass tourism.
... What a stupid comment ..... you can't realize that Jacinda is on a mission to destroy the farmers and Tourist Industry ..... she could save The American Cup if she wanted to
@@chrismckellar9350 .... you are too stupid, trying to show the world how you understand how the economy works ...... 100% you work for somebody ..... I can feel brainless dummy
@@chrismckellar9350 ... you have no idea how the economy works ..... everyone who own business like me and has sound understanding of micro and macro economy is laughing at you
See this: julkaisut.valtioneuvosto.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/164050/VN_2022_23.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y Finnish government's annual report 2021. The graph "Hallituksen kokoukset" on page 7 tells you how busy Marin's government has had to be all along. And that why we Finns keep respecting her.
@@yksvaan1690 thanks! I will check it out. I have plenty of videos on her and others. They are all in the same club. Our President’s picture can be easily found in the Helsinki Rotary pages too.
@@7grainsofsalt Um, that was an official document, not a gossip rag. Maybe not your cup of tea after all. No videos in it, just facts, reports, charts, boring stuff like that. I don't begin to understand your departure to Niinisto and Rotaries. Do you have a gripe with the old man too?
Yeah, right. If You Newzealanders are willing to increase Your government debt. Finland has gained nearly 10 billion more debt during the Marin’s government.
@@juhakinnunen4559 yeah, and what is she doing in NZ? Only the interior and EU politics belong to the prime minister. It’s the yhe president who should be there. She seems saner abroad, though, although she says she ”doesn’t know anything about the modern money theory” but ”believes in social democratic ideology”. We’re running out of money and living on debt without any positive results. Her rich celebrity friends have been given money, though.
@@torpmorp1324 In Finland both the government and the President are responsible for the foreign politics. The PM as well as the Minister of Foreign Affairs have always played an active part in foreign politics. Sanna Marin also leads the the committee TP Utva which determines Finland's foreign policy. The President is one of the members in this committee. Sanna Marin's role as a prominent figure in Finnish foreign relations has been especially vital due to the NATO membership process. It was very much down to her efforts that Finland applied for the membership and did so quickly. It was absolutely essential to have the government approve the application. We could not have applied without the unanimous decision of the government . Both Sanna Marin and President Niinistö have visited a great number of NATO countries to get support and assurance as regards the application and safety during the ratification period. Most Finnish people value Ms Marin's work in building international relations and making Finland with its achievements known in the world. It is no coincidence that such prominent publications as the Financial Times and Time magazine have nominated her among the most influential women in the world. We Finns should be pleased about it.
She's certainly right about the urgency of problems and it's very difficult, from her perspective I gather, to get the proper breathing room leaders such as her need in these pressing times.
Especially as Finnish media is sort of a mini-me of the Murdochian scene prevalent in UK or Oz. She's had a raw deal all along, three years now. Glad she's (mostly) such a tough person. She had a bit of a breakdown on TV last August when they really piled up on her. Got me a bit worried. Was glad to see a week after how she completely obliterated two opposition party leaders in a televised budget debate. lol
Now, now. There's also a linguistic difference. Uralic/Finnic languages like Finnish have a tradition of no nonsense; the flip side of that is poor small talk skills. Indo-European/Germanic languages like English are almost the opposite. Ardern is refreshingly clear and direct when put in that perspective.
She changed an interview question. Then Jack hoping to lighten the mood and make her feel homely wth the "Best Dancer" line, she didn't react and Jack maybe then realised she was in charge of this interview, and he may as well not be there.
"She changed an interview question". Every politician in this world, try to do that, because they want everyone to see their ideology, that way they get more support to their political party, and that way more voters, before next election happen. And Sanna Marin's ideology, is Social democracy.
She pretty much destroyed Finnish health care, education system, forced slavery law to nurses who can't anymore protest for their low salaries and a lot more things.
@@tonibufu6103 Its not Social democracy, take the democracy out and you will find what she truly does. She literally wiped Finnish Health care system education and lot more and forced very questionable laws on health care workers that pretty much breaks some Human right laws in western world.
I would feel blessed if I could visit such a country once. wonderful nature The people of New Zealand are very good. A country where there is no corruption. All together great. There is no embassy of New Zealand in our country, if there was I could go to New Zealand. Since childhood, New Zealand is one of my favorite countries. If someone would have helped me, I could have gone to New Zealand. I could have gone for a work visa
FINNISH large companies are worried about the state's indebtedness, says OP's large business survey. More than 97 percent of the business leaders who responded to the survey considered the state's indebtedness unmanageable. "Reducing the state's indebtedness is seen as important when interest rates have turned upward," says Katja Keitaanniemi, CEO of OP Yrityspanki, in the press release. In large companies, it would be hoped that the government would more actively dismantle structural friction factors and incentive traps. As many as 98 percent of the business leaders who responded to the survey were of the opinion that the government is not actively dismantling structural problems.
I read that article too. Everybody is worried about the debt, including the present government. As they have said multiple times.. Keitaanniemi has complained about the lack of work based immigration and called on the government to do something about it. Completely ignorant of has already been done about it. The new easier work permits are explained on the immigration office Migri's web page, for starters. Some of that is just change in regulation, not legislation, so it didn't cross the news threshold for media, because they never read that sort of stuff.
I bet 98 percent of those business leaders were actually saved by the subsidies for the pandemic restrictions they received. And now they are complaining about the national debt that operation incurred. Par for the course.
Jack Tame? A series of completely infantile Lame/Tame questions of this serious and impressive leader. "Do you trust Vladimir Putin?" "Do you trust Putin not to use nuclear weapons?" The worst "What would happen if Finland was drawn into conflict with Russia?" 1. she can't possibly know and 2. to the extent she can speculate she is not going to tell NZ and the world. He could have asked after years of neutrality given the threat of Russia, Finland is increasing its already high defence spending and joining NATO and even considering hosting nuclear weapons. After years of being a small but strong member of the Western alliance, at time of threat from China, under the guise of an independent foreign policy, NZ has maintained its minimal defence spending and is rejecting its alliance relationships even Australia's nuclear-powered (not armed) submarines in its waters thereby becoming non-aligned even neutral. Is this wise? She would be too rightly diplomatic to answer but could not rebut the inference. See the Sanna Marin interview with the Lowy Institute if you want to hear an adult interview here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0BEhKo5ex0A.html
I get what you mean, and I've seen the Lowy interview, but I don't think it was that bad. The "Do you trust Putin?" question was great. Marin skipped the nuclear question because she's answered that one so many times, I guess. ("We decide in time when the ratification is done and it'll be Finland's sole decision", meaning no, it wouldn't make any frigging sense even from a strictly technical point of view. Better launched where they are now. And who want tacticals inviting the like?)
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, well, soon, and did you know we just had our Indepence Day in Finland! (Poor Sanna Marin barely made it to the traditional reception. Flying from Australia to Albania to an EU meeting then to Finland with a few hours to spare before the presidential palace. She looked okay though. The blue on white dress was downright stylish. National flag colors, you know, wink wink.)
@@cinderellaandstepsisters I don't think the comment suggests Finns habitually carry knives or stuff like that... The "puukko" knives tradition is real though. It seems to be pretty well known in the circles around the world.
Grande Nuova Zelanda , come l'Italia , vi ringrazio , da lavoratore e cittadino italiano , spero , un giorno di visitarla lascio ad altri , e mettendo da parte Maslow che a me non interessa , parlo del mio lavoro e basta però da cittadino mi rendo conto che la Nuova Zelanda e l'Italia sono meraviglie assolute .
@@paulhoogeveen7353 no it doesn't, I know what it translates to. I'm saying what because this guy is just speaking italian as if everybody understands what he's saying
@@faissal8997 That wasn't Marin herself though. She didn't even know about that silly photo until it was leaked to the tabloids a month later. And that residence is her home. The "hard" partying has been a grand total of ten times in these three years, and that's including the receptions at her residence and her festival visits. It's been completely overblown. (I mean, even by journalists who see nothing wrong with that. They too have focused on her 1% of free time, not on the 99% of hard work she has delivered in these extraordinarily challenging times.)
Finns ( apart from Afghans :) ) are the only nation in world who has historic experience to win the Russians in 1939 ( Winter war) . I assume It sits deeply in nation's memory. So does remember Russians that Finns have the stubbornness and efficiency to back up any attack. Finns are sort of Nordic Israelis- no one messes with them.
What's so glorifying about Israëlis? They are the plunderers/ robbers of Palestinian lands, owning their existence on the "supposed" might of the murderers gringos who exterminated the real natives of america- the Red indians& their millenary culture and civilisation without any valid reason, apart from suffering from inferiority complex vis à vis the cultured& civilised descendents of the famous "maya" civilisation.
at 7.00 'If NZ wants to have more sustainable exports" What is this statement about? Is he insinuating that agricultural and horticultural products are not sustainable? This guy needs to wake up to basic biology.
Hard to tell what he means, but it could be about industrial products. (If it wasn't about sheep farts releasing methane and so on.) There's something of a shift going on in Europe for greener manufacturing methods. Hydrogen is looming large for the steel industry for lower carbon emissions, for an example. Marin's government does have a roadmap to make Finland a seawater based hydrogen user and exporter in the near future. But I dunno if the reporter was aware of that sort of stuff.
Something that can be taught is not to put stupid headlines that only aim to be click f**** bait. 5 minutes into this interview and not a single question about What NZ can learn from Finland. Finland's Prime Minister Sanna Marin is not a fool, nor a young naive woman. If the stupid report had had the courage to ask an intellectual question that is not about Putin or Russia, he would have received an answer. Love from Sweden
Think NZ has caved on whatever public glory laurels they had but forgot to maintain it. No saving face for their "PC" country and uncommonly straight to the point in answering a question. She's an incredibly intelligent leader. She single-handedly puts many party leaders to absolute shame....holy crap. Very strong stance towards justice and fighting injustice with Ukraine..... What happened man. Be true to who you are and to the decisions you make to be a strong leader. The only reasons why some others in the globe are a threat for that strength is because they're making those strong decisions for the WRONG reasons.
Would she be minister in your country you would not think that way, she wiped Finnish health care system and lot more important systems in Finland, she does not support people of the country she works for she does the opposite.
@@yamalyousuf8855 It seems you know precious little of the health care reform in Finland. The same project tanked the previous center-right government. Marin's government got a solution done. The first ever Province elections in Finland were held this January as part of this reform. You didn't see anything about it in the news because even The Guardian is hopeless with their Finnish coverage and the BBC didn't understand it.
@@captainpharaoh She is, and we love it. She's also hard working, principled, honest, and a fast learner. She actually has the straight top 6 now in a national PM job approval poll that has been running since 1991, and the first there with only over 50% ratings. (The 7th is a 48% result from 2001. The first wave of Covid was a bit of an outlier when she hit a stratospheric 83%.) She looks polite and pretty outside but she's a warrior inside. Good combo.
@@yamalyousuf8855 Actually now I'm curious. Where do you live? And what has been your news coverage of Finnish health care system, and its reform under Marin's government? How is your country's system like, for contrast? (How does Marin not support the people in Finland?? The most patriotic PM we've had in decades! Ask Russia.)
She talks a good game. The question is will her actions mirror the talk. Also, I think countries can be screwed by democratic countries just as easily as autocratic countries. A country's own self-interests come before all others.
What actions are you missing, then? Taking Finland to NATO, vocal support (and 10 weapons shipments so far) for Ukraine in the EU Council? Increasing Finland's spending on high tech R&D, the education reform? Striking a new visa deal with Japan this May? She actually walks the walk. The track record is there already (but alas, mostly in Finnish, and only in the official publications, because the media nowadays...). It's been something of a surprise how patriotic as a leader she turned out to be. The support for Ukraine is part and parcel of that. Every Russian tank blown up there is one less Finland has to face.
Being young doesn't mean she's best for the job. She parties hard, no problem with that, but as a leader of her country some of her partying antics should be more "virtuous", she's not a teenager, stop acting like one.
What evidence is there to say she 'parties hard', other than a 30 second video at a friend's house showing her dancing a bit? Don't sensationalise a minor indiscretion.
You're talking about literally ten instances over these three years. That's counting nights out clubbing (4), parties at her residence (3), festival visits (3). This image of her as a some kind of party girl is just ludicrous. Or rather, it's a deliberate construct of the tabloids who need to keep their readers angry because that's good business. The reality: she has been the hardest working PM we have seen in Finland in a while. And all that footage you're complaining about was leaked or hacked from private and restricted social media accounts, then spread all over everywhere by the tabloids. None of this brouhaha should have been on her plate. Well, maybe the one time she was dancing with a friend of hers who may or may not have been drunk enough to harass her was a mistake. (If that's what happened; it's conjecture from a potato quality video.) She could have skipped that night out. Then again, there was nothing wrong with that as such. God knows she had every reason to vent a bit. (It's not like the media attacks started from there. They've been going on since she became PM. And that's on top of all the unusual international crises she has had to respond to. While managing a five-party coalition government that seemingly can't quite agree on anything, so she's always being the referee sorting it out, not just the chief executive running a team.) In any case, all this melodrama and footage has stemmed from exactly two days: a party for her idiot friends last July, and a party at her friend's then a night out clubbing last August. Meanwhile, the government stats on official events show a significantly more active government than the previous 2015-2019 one. Same way with legislation passed. Or other achievements like the NATO process done extremely well for her part. She is given precious little credit for the actual work done.
This sounds fun. I don't know the idiom though. What's pinging on the caps? (Warning: Marin is positively old-fashioned for a Finn in this day and age. No real gossip anywhere to be seen.)
State's economy IS fine in Finland. Finland's credit rating IS AA+. The right-wing partie on The opposition have taken cutting taxation as an elections theme, making IT possible by increasing The national debt.
The thing here is New Zealand's approx. $170m trade deficit with Finland. It can be improved -- by both countries increasing their trade. It's not a zero-sum game. Eikö niin, vai mitä mieltä olet?
@@Jklak100 Look at how Truss ended up in UK. Bank of England had to bail her out to the tune of a few tens of billions when the pound started tanking. And definitely hadn't planned on that. "Cut taxes, trickle down"... not even the high rollers believe in that shit.
Fear not, she's moderate, center-left. Her party was historically the sworn arch-enemy of the subversive communists from the 1920s on; not just competing for the same working class voters but actively countering their schemes and plots, in defence of Finland's independence. Obviously that's water under the bridge now, with USSR long gone, but it's a good history. Marin is not particularly woke, thankfully. The new trans law is moderate, based on a fundamental assumption of just two sexes. That's probably why also the main right-wing opposition party supported it in the parliament. She is more about the equality of the sexes and equal opportunity for everyone, with particular focus on education. On climate she has emphasized how it's a huge opportunity for Finland for brand new export industries. (This is actually happening as we speak. Hydrogen is shaping up to be a major sector next.) And how the worldwide effort can relieve migration pressure from the poorest countries if they stay habitable. And so on. Always a pragmatic point of view. On economy she is a traditional social democrat, advocating for fair capitalism. This is in line with Finland's tradition of fairly strong labor unions and usually a wide consensus on wages. In a word it's a variant of the Nordic model. She has has a major emphasis on innovation and new investment. Indeed she brought up R&D in this interview too, and the major role of the private sector in it. She advocates for work based immigration. She hasn't appeared to be too keen on relaxing Finland's fairly strict standard for residence permits let alone citizenship, or asylum grants. Finland's fairly low refugee quota of about 1200 a year focuses explicitly on the most vulnerable: young women and orphan children. Nobody wants the situation we have readily seen in Sweden for years. (Then again, Ukrainian refugees have been a notable exception to the policy. Over 50 000 have been welcomed with comparatively open arms.) I'm not sure where her "leftist" reputation comes from, actually. In Finnish debate it always seems to go back to one set of answers in a newspaper ahead of the 2015 election, and those were kind of provocative questions to begin with. he has proven to be a moderate first as multiple time chairman of the city council of her hometown Tampere, and then as the PM. She was the main driver for Finland's NATO application, and had a non-trivial impact last April on Sweden accelerating their schedule to match Finland's. That's not what an leftist would have done... It's fairly obvious she has been in favor of Finland's NATO membership at least since the evacuation from Afghanistan -- Finland had active troops there alla along, and with the embassy more than 400 local partners were rescued too -- if not earlier. She has talked about how she begun to see in her EU27 work how NATO is always an extra dimension to the Council, the table where the most important decisions on security are made, how it's not just a passive alliance but an active and useful player. So the ideology part is more nuanced than you'd first think. 🙃
Healthcare was crippled by the preceding right-wing government's austerity policies that didn't start any economic growth. Marin inherited a time bomb and the region-based reform is a real attempt at solving the problem. How successful, too early to tell, but clearly a focus of her government. And you're calling EU average debt level (70%) a problem because that's the main opposition party's only elections theme. (The other one has, unsurprisingly, immigration doom and gloom. When Marin's government has been stricter on it than the preceding right-wing government...)
Where does this vitriol really come from? The Covid response? General politics/economics? What? Ardern is not horsey. You are horsey. Your family may be horsey. What does it even mean?
Sanna Marin has nothing to offer to world politics but passion & wishful thinking . She loves to be the centre of attraction. It would be a serious mistake for Sanna Marin to be in the serious business of solving the problems in UKRAINE or anywhere else.
"Sanna Marin has nothing to offer to world politics but passion & wishful thinking" Source/context? "She loves to be the centre of attraction" Source? "It would be a serious mistake for Sanna Marin to be in the serious business of solving the problems in UKRAINE or anywhere else." Source/context?
@@speedruiner7213 Source/context = reality/delivered results. Sanna Marin's government has only increased Finland's debt and is driven by socialistic and ideologic principles.
@@speedruiner7213 You're answering your own question. Sanna Marin has done as bad if not worse as the previous Finnish governments. If the government lead by her would be doing an amazing job you wouldn't be asking such a question.
No specific comment for You PM Sanna But for my own opinion to not have any impact on you and Finnish view but from geographical perspective, you have to be more closer to Russia and Russian mindset than to Europe if we have look to St Petersburg and big area around P.S: my comment nothing to do with this Ukrainian War of what i have No idea
Finland did attempt to be a bridge between Russia and the rest of EU ever since 1991 when the Soviet Union imploded. Extensive commercial and industrial ties, co-operative environment projects around St Pete, a lot of mutually beneficial tourism across the land border, Finnair's unique Asian flight paths over Russia (that had already made the main Helsinki-Vantaa airport one of the top European hubs for Asian flight traffic), and so forth. While the post 2014 sanctions against Russia already hurt all that in various ways, it all really came crashing down on Feb 24 2022.
@@yksvaan1690 The Soviet Union did not implode! It was deliberately planned to be "exploded"with the help of traitors like Michael Gorbatchev who , in the name of his so -called "prozratchtnost"(transparency) &"perestroyska"(reconstruction/rehabilitation?) tied the hands of the russians behind their backs and gambled the USSR to the EU, NATO in return of such a "reward" that nobody can dare to imagine.Just like Yougoslavia and most of the Eastern European block underwent such a balkanisation , with most of them being forced to queue up for admission to EU, and thereafter NATO(b'coz gringos want to extend the list of countries all over the globe in a bid to set up more military bases, to produce more& more weapons thereby increasing their earnings on sale of armaments).This is where the only interest of the US lies. As,had it not been the case, America would have already dissuaded the Russians from day one, instead of hiding behind the back of NATO, keeping the western european countries in the front line for more than a year now! The saddest thing is that neither the US,nor its Western European allies(including surprisingly Japan, Phillipines,& the so- called "neutrals" like Switzerland, Denmark,Norway,etc)want to accept that they are now"old game", similar to those old aged hookers still on the streets of the "red light zones" and whom nobody wants to eye!What is Western Europe and USA, in terms of culture, civism, education, even dwindling economies and health& social care?The only thing they can boast of is their expenditures in armaments, warfare, for initiating coups to overthrow governments not to their liking.Thats where lies their expertise! It's so amazing that every" threat" is considered to be originating ONLY from Russia, followed nowadays by China, then North Korea, with latelybeing insinuated from India......All this has one thing in common: these are countries which are catching up very fast with the world order in terms manufacture, trade, R&D in up to date technologies in medicine& health care, science, space, armaments and in the general wellbeing of their citizens. Soon, "threats" will be coming from "BRICS",isn't it? And may be sometime from continent AFRICA when it will start accelerating the processing and utilisation of all her untapped natural resources! It's not a secret to normal human thinkers that the move by the US is already on to control and revamping of the Indo-Pacific sea, the South Pacific,with forthcoming AUKUS, with France this time showing eagerness to join the gang( to have better control on Reunion island, Tromelin,an island belonging to Mauritius, New Caledonia, etc), Diego Garçia atoll in the Indian ocean and all the 800 or so military bases across the world.Much deeper thoughts are genuinely being expected from each & every country and individual, instead of cutting& pasting"slava" to this & that, without knowing the consequences, the inside out of things of real concern to whole of humanity.
Well, we don't have to convince the Finns, Balts and Slavs to Russia, but will we convince the French, Spaniards and Italians? We will not convince the Germans because they are their non-treaty allies.
