Retailers brand EU bottle return overhaul "impossible and absurd"
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Retailers S-Group and Kesko have described proposed changes to the national bottle return system as nonsensical, warning that an EU regulation could dismantle a functional domestic model at a cost of hundreds of millions of euros.
In Northern Savonia, the search for a missing toddler ended with what police termed a grim discovery near a playhouse. Meanwhile, concerns about accountability have been raised after a significant sum of development aid funds was reported missing in Tanzania.
Student debt has doubled in 15 years, a period during which the concept of free money has become increasingly expensive. Separately, the mother of Mari Lahtinen was found nearly four years after she vanished with a berry basket; she was discovered close to her home, a quiet end to a case that has highlighted the limits of support for families of the missing.