The Government of Finland considers the situation on the border with Russia “very serious and alarming”, so the opening of border checkpoints in the near future is impossible. This was stated by Prime Minister Petteri Orpo on air of Yle TV channel.
“As far as we understand, there are people across the eastern border whose goal is to come to Finland illegally,” Orpo said. According to him, we are not talking about hundreds but thousands of people, so the authorities need to develop measures to curb illegal migration.
