The Finnish capital of Helsinki broke records when it marked a single year without a traffic death up until July 2025. The ...

Helsinki’s popular “Summer Streets” project in Kallio will likely return in 2026, after receiving largely positive feedback ...

Over time, a focus on street safety led to lower speed limits along more and more city lanes, from 30 mph to 18 mph.

Danish man Steen Christensen, sentenced to life for killing two Finnish police officers in 1997, has been denied parole for ...

We all know about the role of saunas, nature and near-incorruptible politicians in Finland’s long-running status as the world ...

Although road deaths are on the decline across the EU, with a 3 percent decrease in 2024, accidents with tragic outcomes are ...

Fifty years ago, Leonid Brezhnev, general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, achieved a long-desired ...

With more than 1.5 million people living in the metro area, the city also cut down significantly on the number of ...

The Finnish capital has set a new global benchmark by recording an entire year with zero traffic-related deaths (the last one ...

Thank you, President Stubb and Foreign Minister Valtonen, for the invitation to speak at this important event. It’s wonderful ...

On 1 August 1975 - in the middle of the Cold War - 35 states from both the West and the Eastern Bloc signed the CSCE Final ...

Helsinki 35 politically diverse states agreed to launch a new process for cooperation and strengthening security. What was ...