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Sebastian Tynkkynen

Perussuomalaiset · ECR

Confirmed: 33Nuanced: 22False: 2

57 verified claims

Confirmed
China accounts for about one third of all global CO2 emissions.
Environment
Nuanced
The European Court of Auditors issued an adverse opinion on EU spending for the seventh consecutive year.
Economy
Nuanced
Nearly a quarter of the Recovery and Resilience Facility grant payments disbursed to member states during the year did not comply with the applicable rules and conditions.
Economy
Nuanced
Last year the EU and its member states provided almost EUR 32 billion of public money in international climate finance.
Environment
Nuanced
Finland's overall return rate for beverage containers is 99%.
Environment
Confirmed
Finland is the world's largest cobalt refiner outside China.
Industry & Employment
Nuanced
Finland's cobalt dust occupational safety limits are more than twice as strict as China's and five times stricter than those in the US.
Industry & Employment
Confirmed
Finland has the longest border with Russia of any EU member state.
Foreign Affairs
Confirmed
In 2024, the EU and its member states spent nearly €90 billion on development aid in a single year.
Foreign Affairs
Confirmed
Nuclear power produces nearly 40% of the electricity used in Finland.
Environment
Confirmed
According to the Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), the Nature Restoration Regulation could remove nearly €3 billion per year from Finland's economic value added.
Environment
Nuanced
The large-scale forest protection scenario under the Nature Restoration Regulation would eliminate more than 20,000 jobs in Finland.
Environment
Confirmed
An operation led to the seizure of more than 3 million counterfeit pills.
Health
Nuanced
An EU-level law enforcement operation targeting counterfeit medicines carried out in 2025 resulted in 40 organised crime groups investigated, 500 arrests and 3,300 criminal charges
Health
Nuanced
In a survey of healthcare staff in Finland, only 1% of respondents felt that internationally recruited workers had sufficient language skills to work in their profession.
Health
Confirmed
Recorded antisemitic crimes in Germany rose from 2,641 in 2022 to 6,236 in 2024.
Equality
Confirmed
A EUR 3 customs duty has now been introduced for parcels valued under EUR 150.
Economy
Confirmed
Turkey ranks 163rd in the World Press Freedom Index.
Other
Nuanced
According to statistics, 4.6 billion e-commerce parcels valued under EUR 150 arrived in Europe last year.
Economy
Nuanced
Cormorant populations in Finland have exploded, causing damage to fish stocks and the profitability of the fishing livelihood.
Environment
Nuanced
Both the cormorant and the barnacle goose are thriving species whose populations in Finland have increased considerably in recent years.
Environment
Confirmed
French counterintelligence dismantled nine secret Chinese police stations operating on French soil.
Internal Affairs
Confirmed
Sudan is ranked in the top five countries in the world for Christian persecution.
Justice & Anti-Corruption
Confirmed
At EU level, only 17% of small companies use artificial intelligence.
Industry & Employment
Confirmed
At EU level, only 30% of medium-sized companies use artificial intelligence.
Industry & Employment
Confirmed
At EU level, 55% of large companies use artificial intelligence.
Industry & Employment
Confirmed
The share of Finnish companies using artificial intelligence is almost twice the EU average.
Industry & Employment
Confirmed
The share of companies using artificial intelligence in Finland has risen to almost 38%.
Industry & Employment
Nuanced
85% of global battery production capacity is located in China.
Industry & Employment
Confirmed
90% of rare earth mineral refining is under China's control.
Industry & Employment
Nuanced
Turkey ranks 159th out of 180 nations in the World Press Freedom Index.
Internal Affairs
Confirmed
71% of European startups named regulatory obstacles or administrative burden as their biggest challenge.
Industry & Employment
Nuanced
98% of Europe's solar panels come from China.
Environment
Nuanced
88% of Europe's lithium-ion battery imports come from China.
Environment
False
Fertilizers are the single largest cost in agriculture.
Agriculture
Nuanced
China's crude steel production is about 27 times that of Germany, the EU's largest producer.
Industry & Employment
Confirmed
Baltic herring is the most important fish stock for Finnish fisheries.
Agriculture
Nuanced
Germany imposed an export ban on protective equipment.
Health
False
China produced more than 1,000 million tonnes of crude steel in 2025.
Industry & Employment
Nuanced
In 2023, 12,000 citizens were arrested in Britain for messages and social media posts.
Justice & Anti-Corruption
Confirmed
The maximum amount of eligible expenditure in the project was EUR 276 million.
Migration
Confirmed
Last year a Swedish court ruled that a rape committed by an Eritrean immigrant against a 16-year-old Swedish girl did not last long enough to warrant deportation.
Justice & Anti-Corruption
Nuanced
Nearly 5,500 drones were used against Ukraine in one week
Defence
Confirmed
60% of this sum, nearly 45 billion EUR, went to climate action and environmental sustainability.
Environment
Confirmed
The Investment Bank provided over 76 billion EUR in new financing in 2024.
Economy
Confirmed
Finland recently agreed on a massive icebreaker deal to sell icebreakers to the United States
Foreign Affairs
Confirmed
Ukrainian people have been involved in the war with Russia for over four years.
Defence
Confirmed
Left-wing and anarchist terrorism accounted for 21 attacks within a year
Defence
Nuanced
Russia has suffered over one million casualties.
Defence
Confirmed
Last year Europe invested EUR 45 billion in wind power.
Environment
Confirmed
Large EU countries currently have debt-to-GDP ratios hovering over 100%
Economy
Confirmed
Germany has already closed its last nuclear power plant.
Environment
Nuanced
The European Parliament does not mind concluding vaccine contracts worth tens of billions of euros via text message, let alone hiding such actions.
Health
Confirmed
The European Court of Auditors has seriously warned about continuous misuse of EU funds multiple times.
Internal Affairs
Confirmed
The Finnish government raised the minimum income threshold for labour immigration to 1,600 euros per month.
Migration
Nuanced
Iranian law permits girls as young as nine years old to be married.
Equality
Confirmed
The nation has been occupied by an Islamist dictatorship for 46 years
Foreign Affairs