{"id":129455,"date":"2024-04-05T07:35:50","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T04:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/finland-to-keep-its-border-closed-with-russia-over-migration-concerns\/"},"modified":"2024-04-05T07:35:50","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T04:35:50","slug":"finland-to-keep-its-border-closed-with-russia-over-migration-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/finland-to-keep-its-border-closed-with-russia-over-migration-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Finland to keep its border closed with Russia over migration concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129455\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nFinland closed the 1,340-kilometer land border late last year after an unusually high number of asylum-seekers entered the country. Finland will extend the closure of its border crossing points with Russia beyond the current 14 April deadline \u201cuntil further notice\u201d. The Finnish Interior Ministry posted on X that the decision was made over concerns undocumented migrants were entering the country from Russia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Russia is using instrumentalised migration against Finland. Based on information provided by public authorities, the risk that instrumentalised migration will resume and expand as seen previously remains likely,&#8221; said the Interior Ministry. Finland closed the 1,340-kilometer land border late last year after more than 1,300 migrants without proper documentation or visas entered the country.<\/p>\n<p>The surge came in the three months after September, not long after Finland joined the NATO alliance. Most migrants hail from the Middle East and Africa, especially Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq, Somalia, Syria and Yemen. The vast majority have sought asylum in Finland, a European Union member state with a population of 5.6 million. Finnish Cabinet of Prime Minister Petteri Orpo has extended the closure of checkpoints several times. He accuses Russia of deliberately ushering migrants to the normally heavily guarded Russia-Finland border zone that serves also as the EU\u2019s external border in the north. The Kremlin has denied Helsinki&#8217;s claims, saying the Finnish government is unwilling to engage in dialogue about the border.<\/p>\n<p>All eight Finland-Russia land border crossing points for people have been closed since 15 December. The southeastern rail checkpoint for cargo trains in Vainikkala remains open but the government said on Thursday it would close three maritime checkpoints starting 15 April. Migrants can continue to seek asylum in Finland, part of the EU\u00b4s passport-free Schengen zone, at Finnish airports and harbours, the government said. Finland acts as the EU\u2019s external border in the north and makes up a significant part of NATO\u2019s northeastern flank.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2024\/04\/04\/finland-to-keep-its-border-closed-with-russia-over-migration-concerns\">Euronews<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/finland-to-keep-its-border-closed-with-russia-over-migration-concerns\/\">Finland to keep its border closed with Russia over migration concerns<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[14043,555,586,588],"class_list":["post-129455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-bordr","tag-csr-news-en","tag-finland","tag-russia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}