Defence committee rejects delays to Finland mobile alert system

Finland’s parliamentary defence committee has criticised delays to a new mobile emergency warning system after last week’s drone threat triggered confusion across the Helsinki region. Committee chair Heikki Autto said on Tuesday that the government’s timetable for introducing direct cell broadcast alerts was too slow and blamed bureaucracy for holding up the project. “It is not acceptable that the introduction stretches until the end of the year,” Autto told reporters after a committee he...