This week's top stories included a row over noise levels coming from a Hindu temple in the southern Finland town of Sipoo.This week in Finland, 28.8.2026Ronan Browne14:58This week's round-up of the top news stories from Finland includes:Another poor polling performance for Prime Minister Petteri Orpo's (NCP) government. Only two percent of Finnish voters want to see the current coalition continue in government after next spring's election, according to the results of an Yle survey.Finland's economic vitality has stagnated since the global financial crisis of 2008-2009, an index compiled by consultancy firm MDI has revealed. Ireland, the Czech Republic, Estonia and Slovakia have climbed the rankings particularly rapidly since the early 2010s, while Finland has fallen from 9th place in the vitality scale to 24th over the same time period.The naming of a new type of bus in Tampere sparked a debate about the official use of English-language terms instead of Finnish. The English term "plusbus" won a public competition, but Tampere's transport operator Nysse quietly changed the name to the more Finnish-sounding "plusbussi" after state agency Kotus got involved.A group of residents in Sipoo filed a formal complaint about what they called excessive noise coming from a Hindu temple in the rural area. The temple community says it wants to live in harmony with its neighbours and has taken steps to minimise any disturbance.