Helsinki speaks English

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Finland has two official languages: Finnish and Swedish. Now, the mayor of Helsinki wants to declare the capital an English-language city to attract more foreign workers to come and live there. Not everyone is on board though, as our Europe correspondent Orla Barry reports.

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