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Free open higher education for young people

Young people graduating from upper secondary education who do not secure a study place will be given the opportunity to complete 30 credits of open higher education studies free of charge. The aim of the pilot is to make the transition of young people into higher education smoother and faster, and to help them choose their field.

✕Antti Kaikkonen: No

Digitalising and centralising public administration archiving

A new Archiving Act will be enacted in Finland, bringing public administration archiving into the digital age and centralising permanently preserved electronic data in the National Archives of Finland. The reform makes it easier to find public authority materials and enables municipalities and wellbeing services counties to transfer their electronic archives into the central government's shared repository.

✓Antti Kaikkonen: Yes

Reforming banking regulation and supervision

Finnish legislation on credit institutions will be brought into line with the EU's latest banking package to improve the stability of the financial system. Banks will face new risk management obligations and supervisory authorities will be granted broader powers.

Antti Kaikkonen: No vote recorded

Restricting activation plans for rehabilitative work

Activation plans for rehabilitative work activities will only be drawn up for unemployed persons whose primary income is social assistance. For recipients of unemployment benefits, services will be organised according to individual need through a multidisciplinary employment plan.

✕Antti Kaikkonen: No

Digitalising and clarifying occupational disease notifications

The obligation of doctors to notify the occupational safety and health authority will be limited to occupational diseases, and notifications will be transmitted electronically via Kanta services. Reporting other work-related illnesses will become voluntary, and the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health will receive research data centrally from Kela.

Antti Kaikkonen: No vote recorded

Streamlining further training for nurses

Nurses will be able to qualify as paramedics, midwives and public health nurses through separate supplementary education without completing a second full university of applied sciences degree. Paramedic and public health nurse qualifications can still also be completed directly as an integrated programme in connection with nursing studies.

✕Antti Kaikkonen: No

Permitting wolf hunting

The year-round protection of wolves will be discontinued, and wolf hunting will be permitted during a defined hunting season. Quotas can be set or hunting licences issued for hunting without strict derogation procedures.

✓Antti Kaikkonen: Yes

Taxing offshore wind in economic zone

Property tax and income tax will be introduced for offshore wind turbines built in Finland's exclusive economic zone, with the majority of the revenue allocated to the state and one-fifth to neighbouring coastal municipalities. At the same time, property tax on offshore wind power will be reduced so that its taxation corresponds better to that of onshore wind power.

✓Antti Kaikkonen: Yes

Restricting logging during bird nesting season

Obligations and restrictions will be added to the Forest Act and the Nature Conservation Act to safeguard bird nesting in forestry. Timber harvesting will be prohibited during the bird nesting season in lush deciduous-dominated forests, spruce mires and riparian forests, and trees important to birds must be retained during logging.

✓Antti Kaikkonen: Yes

Supplementing the second 2026 supplementary budget

The Government's supplementary proposal to the second supplementary budget for 2026 (HE 102/2026). It updates the supplementary budget proposal before Parliament decides on it; it will be considered together with the actual supplementary budget.

Antti Kaikkonen: No vote recorded

Clarifying criteria for disability services

A provision will be added to the Disability Services Act to help distinguish the need for assistance typical of a stage of life from a specific need for support resulting from a disability. Disability services will be granted in situations where the need for support differs from that typical of people of the same age and general social services are insufficient.

✕Antti Kaikkonen: No

Tightening taxi sector regulation

Regulation of the taxi sector will be tightened by introducing mandatory taximeters, dedicated taxi registration plates and mandatory training for drivers. At the same time, new criminal convictions will be added as grounds for refusing licences to taxi entrepreneurs and drivers.

✓Antti Kaikkonen: Yes

Establishing a police reserve

A police reserve will be established in Finland for serious disruptions and emergency conditions. The reserve will consist of police students and police-trained individuals who do not work as police officers.

Antti Kaikkonen: No vote recorded

Facilitating fixed-term employment contracts

Employers will be able to hire a new employee on a fixed-term employment contract for up to one year without a justified reason. In addition, the lay-off notice period will be shortened from 14 days to seven days, and the obligation to re-employ dismissed employees will be removed for businesses with fewer than 50 employees.

✕Antti Kaikkonen: No

Valtion talousarvioksi vuodelle 2027

Antti Kaikkonen: No vote recorded

Supplementary budget for 2026

The supplementary budget for 2026, meaning changes to the central government budget for the current year. The votes mainly concern individual appropriation items and proposals in the opposition's dissenting opinions.

–Antti Kaikkonen: Abstained

Tackling problems in housing companies

Housing companies will receive better means to tackle nuisances from short-term letting and other housing disruptions, as well as take possession of flats using electronic service of notice. In addition, the controlled winding-down of struggling housing companies will be made lighter, and the division of maintenance responsibilities will be clarified.

Antti Kaikkonen: No vote recorded

Lowering taxes on transport fuels

Taxes on transport fuels will be lowered in 2026 and 2027. The change will reduce the price of petrol and diesel by about three cents per litre.

✓Antti Kaikkonen: Yes

Opening the gambling market to competition

Finland's gambling system will be partially opened to competition by moving to a licensing system where companies can offer online gambling under a licence granted by the supervisory authority. Part of gambling, such as lotteries and physical slot machines, will remain the exclusive right of the state-owned company Veikkaus.

✓Antti Kaikkonen: Yes