Finland's incoming government to reduce immigration

Finland's incoming coalition government said on Friday it had agreed to cut refugee quotas, raise the bar for work-based immigration and make it more difficult for foreigners to obtain citizenship, key priorities for the nationalist Finns Party.

The government will also reject the use of any further joint European Union economic recovery plans like the one implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic, which the National Coalition and the eurosceptic Finns, Finland's two biggest parties, opposed.