Finnish President Alexander Stubb — who has spent this week in Davos, Switzerland at the World Economic Forum — foresees three scenarios regarding Greenland's future.
He explained the three possible outcomes in an interview with newspaper Ilta-Sanomat, before US President Donald Trump's speech about the topic at the gathering of top decisionmakers and business leaders from around the world.
"One good, one bad and one catastrophic," Stubb said, according to IS.
Before Trump arrived at WEF, he threatened Finland and seven other countries with punitive tariffs after they sent a small group of military personnel to Greenland.
However, over the course of the day, Trump ultimately dropped the tariff threats, after meeting with Nato's Secretary General, Mark Rutte.
After those talks, Trump announced on his social media channel Truth Social that he and Rutte had "formed the framework of a future deal with respect to Greenland" — as well as the Arctic Region. According to the New York Times, he did not offer further details.
Regarding his predictions about Greenland's future, the Finnish president said a good scenario would be the concerned parties finding a process to peacefully discuss security in the region — hopefully within Nato.
The second scenario, Stubb said, would be increased tariffs on both sides of the Atlantic. "So, a kind of trade war," he said, according to IS.
"And the third was some kind of reference to military intervention. We worked hard to ensure that the second and third scenarios would not come true," Stubb said.
Stubb noted that no agreement about Greenland has yet been reached, confirming that Finland would do its part regarding security in Greenland and in the Arctic.
"Now we've calmed down and de-escalated a situation that looked bad. And the process will take a few months, or it could take years," he said.
The paper noted that Trump also suggested the US was no longer considering using military force to acquire Greenland, but did continue to say he still wants the territory.
Stubb said Trump's speech offered "two silver linings".
"That is, the fact that there will be no military intervention and the fact that a process will be built that is related to the security of the Arctic region," he told Ilta-Sanomat.
Government wants AI's help in healthcare
Prime Minister Petteri Orpo's (NCP) government wants to enable the use of artificial intelligence to automate some tasks in the public healthcare sector to assess patient care needs, according to newspaper Hufvudstadsbladet.
Such aims are included in the government programme, according to a press release by the social affairs and health ministry on Thursday.
The ministry said that the government is proposing amendments to the Health and Medical Services Act to enable tech-supported assessments in healthcare.
Current law, it noted, stipulates that care assessments be made by professionally trained staff within the health and medical services sector.
As examples, the ministry said that in practice, it would allow the social service sector to use data analysis to reduce its most burdensome tasks through preventive measures — and also enable healthcare services to plan screening examinations more effectively.
"The changes should be made so that the patients' fundamental freedoms and rights are not compromised. For example, the patient should always have the right to have their care needs assessed by a professionally trained person," the ministry's release read.
The ministry plans to submit the proposal in the autumn, HBL reports.
Underwear: How long is too long?
On Friday morning, newspaper Iltalehti explored the rarely considered question of how often people should change their underwear.
But the question wasn't random, it noted.
Earlier this month, an adventurous Finnish rower, Jari Saario, was rescued at sea after getting caught in a violent storm as he was rowing solo from Chile to South Africa.
While he survived the ordeal, his specialised, fibreglass rowboat was damaged by the rough weather and could not be recovered.
According to Iltalehti, Saario has admitted that over the course of 66 days of rowing before the storm, he had not changed his underwear a single time.
So the paper sought advice from a doctor, to find out if that might have been too long.
According to Emilia Lagus, a physician at the private healthcare firm Terveystalo, it seems so.
"Generally, I would comment that this sounds like a situation that could be a bit awkward and cause symptoms. Of course, there are types of underwear designed to be worn longer, as is perhaps the case in Saario's situation," Lagus explained.
Such specialised undergarments are often made of merino wool, which absorbs moisture, "which is the biggest problem with underwear", she explained.
"When moisture remains on warm skin, it is a wonderful breeding ground for bacteria and fungi," Lagus said.
She noted that if people need to wear their undies longer than a day, the most important thing is to keep them dry.
However, she also noted that, in terms of underwear, women and men have different needs.
The situation for women is more demanding. Lagus said females need underwear that is breathable and able to absorb moisture, while their menstrual cycles call for other requirements.
According to the physician, a British study found that 20 percent of men in the UK wear the same underwear for up to a week.
"It doesn't sound terribly comfortable and I'd recommend changing more frequently," Lagus said, according to Iltalehti.
