{"title": "Finland's Only Republican? | Matti Apunen | Negotiator 149", "titleOriginal": "Suomen ainoa republikaani? | Matti Apunen | Neuvottelija 149", "episodeNumber": "149", "guest": "Matti Apunen", "publishedAt": "2022-08-21", "duration": "57:46", "durationIso": "PT57M46S", "youtube": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e029vqr6occ", "fiCanonical": "https://www.neuvottelija.fi/fi/episodes/207-suomen-ainoa-republikaani-matti-apunen-neuvottelija-149", "originalLanguage": "fi", "format": "full", "topics": ["free_speech_society", "finnish_economy_policy"], "description": "Matti Apunen — chair of the board of the Finnish public broadcaster Yle, former editor-in-chief of Aamulehti and co-host of the A&M podcast — has described himself as Finland's only republican. He explains what classical liberalism and republicanism in Buckley's tradition mean to him, and why he treats every euro paid in tax as a piece of personal freedom given up. The host presses him to set Finland's 42 per cent tax ratio against other Western countries and asks why Finnish private wealth has fallen behind Sweden's. The conversation runs from editing Aamulehti to Yle's competitive position, the decline of business journalism, and why statism is in Apunen's view the fundamental problem of the Finnish economy.", "chapters": [], "sourceTranscriptType": "none", "subtitleMethod": "none", "provenance": "Owner page assembled from YouTube metadata and the neuvottelija.fi episode record. No chapter marks are published here: the publisher's list holds only two marks, at 0:00 and 0:46, and it is a split of the show-note text rather than a chapter list, so republishing it would assert timestamps that do not hold. No transcript is published either — the channel has no English caption track for this episode and the Finnish one is YouTube's automatic track. The guest chaired the board of Yle when this was recorded and Yle's position is discussed in the episode; he is also a former director of the think tank EVA, which is funded by Finnish employers, and the positions he argues here are consistent with that. The tax-ratio figures are those of 2022.", "coreTheses": ["Apunen's republicanism is the American tradition, which is why the label reads as strange in Finland and why he uses it.", "Treating tax as surrendered freedom is a framing choice, and the episode is most useful where the host makes him defend it against the comparative numbers.", "Chairing Yle's board while arguing for a smaller state is the tension the episode is built on, and it does not resolve it.", "The decline of business journalism is offered as a cause rather than a symptom of how economic policy gets debated."], "slug": "ep149-suomen-ainoa-republikaani-matti-apunen", "guestsCanonical": ["Matti Apunen"], "guestPages": ["https://www.neuvottelija.com/podcast/guests/matti-apunen/"], "page": "https://www.neuvottelija.com/podcast/episodes/ep149-suomen-ainoa-republikaani-matti-apunen/", "markdown": "https://www.neuvottelija.com/podcast/episodes/ep149-suomen-ainoa-republikaani-matti-apunen/index.md", "captions": null, "transcript": null, "videoId": "e029vqr6occ", "dbId": null, "qaCoveragePct": 0.0, "qaSemanticVerdict": "metadata_only", "aiArticleEn": "https://www.neuvottelija.com/ai/ep149-suomen-ainoa-republikaani-matti-apunen/", "aiArticleFi": "https://www.neuvottelija.fi/yhteiskunta/ep149-suomen-ainoa-republikaani-matti-apunen/"}