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Re:Mayor suggests Helsinki declare itself an English-languag... by Barrin92 on Thursday September 02, 2021 @07:54PM (#28398848)
>The meat of the idea being that for city employees

Which is actually pretty bad because the city and administration is literally the one place where a Finnish citizen should be guaranteed to communicate in the official language.

I don't mind as much what language requirements private companies have if it works for them, but it would be pretty comical to go to my municipal office and have someone work my case who doesn't speak his own country's language.

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Re:Mayor suggests Helsinki declare itself an English-languag... by mc32 on Thursday September 02, 2021 @08:11PM (#28398984)
Yep. The one thing a gov't is supposed to do is to serve its citizenry directly.

This is pandering to the potential of foreign investment --which could benefit already rich people and who potentially price out the locals. Yay, globalization.

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