NORWAY FINLAND

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A NEWLY appointed minister in Finland has had to resign less than a week into the job after his controversial ‘neo-Nazi’ comments. On Friday, June 30, Vilhelm Junnila, resigned from his post as Finland’s minister for economic affairs, after his previous comments were likened to neo-Nazi rhetoric.

Best airport

THE international airport organisation ACI has selected Helsinki-Vantaa airport managed by Finnish company Finavia as the best European airport of 2023 in its size category. Criteria for the award were the airport's sustainability efforts, innovations, operational efficiency, resilience, and its ability to recover from the pandemic.

Free rooms

A QUICK-THINKING Ryanair pilot managed to stop what could have been a serious incident on the runway at Porto Airport. The Irish jet was due to land after its flight from Barcelona, but the pilot spotted there was already an aircraft about to take off, from the same runway.

THE problem of recruiting and retaining hotel staff in Europe may be resolved by copying a concept from Africa and Asia, whereby staff villages are created so that workers can enjoy good quality accommodation free of charge and this is being trialled at the Verdelago resort in Portugal.