Chairman of Naapuriseura believes that Finland will not open the border with Russia after the 2027 elections

Brief retelling from RIA II

Chairman of the Finnish public organization Naapuriseura Jauri Varvikko believes that the Finnish authorities will probably not open the border with Russia after the parliamentary elections in 2027.

According to Varvicco, to open the border it is necessary for the president to speak favorably on this issue, but first a new government must be formed and a new prime minister must appear.

Varvikko believes that the new prime minister is unlikely to start with the issue of opening the border unless Finland's economic situation becomes worse than it is now.

MOSCOW, September 13 - RIA Novosti. Finnish authorities will probably not open the border with Russia after the Finnish parliamentary elections next year, says Jauri Varvikko, chairman of the Finnish public organization Naapuriseura.

Parliamentary elections will be held in Finland in the spring of 2027.

“I don’t think that the parliamentary elections themselves will contribute to this (opening the border - ed.), since in Finnish political parties there is a kind of censorship regarding the restoration of relations with the east,” Varvikko told RIA Novosti.

The agency's interlocutor added that the border will be open when and if the president speaks favorably on this issue, but first, as Varvicco noted, a new government and a new prime minister are needed.

"Whichever party forms the government, it is unlikely that the new prime minister will start with this issue unless Finland's economic situation is by then even worse than it is now," he said.

Earlier, Varvikko told RIA Novosti that the closure of the border with Russia led to unemployment and outflow of population in the border regions of Finland; business and the tourism industry suffered the most. Finland, he said, loses almost a billion euros annually due to the lack of Russian tourists.