Unlawfully appointed journalist was once again elected to the embassy in London
Nominations|The Administrative Court overturned Markus Hip due to the shortcomings of the former appointment decision.
State Department has again appointed a journalist background Markus Hip as a press and country photo officer at the Finnish Embassy in London.
Hippi was appointed to the post of a press officer for the past 2023-2026. However, the Helsinki Administrative Court overturned the ministry’s appointment decision last fall.
According to the Administrative Court, the decision made by the Ministry was unlawful due to the shortcomings of the appointment process. In the Ministry’s appointment note, the applicants had compared the merits of the applicants.
Another applicant, who has a long career in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, appealed to the Administrative Court.
Hip himself has not been claimed to have been wrong.
State Department After the decision of the Administrative Court, a new search for the post, where the ministry again decided to select Markus Hip.
In fact, he has always done the task even after the decision of the Administrative Court.
Director of Communications at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Mikko Koivumaa says that after the decision of the Administrative Court, the hippie has acted on a temporary task order until the new application process is arranged and the person selected will be in office.
Koivumaa, Communications Director, assures that the new application process was real and that another person could have been selected for the post.
« We organized a normal application process and one of the applicants was the person selected last time. He took the winner in the race, » Koivumaa says.
Before Hippi worked as a press officer at Monocle Media Company in the UK since 2011. Prior to that, he was a host in Finland, for example, MTV3’s Morning Finland and YLE’s morning TV.
Hippie has studied communication and journalism. He is a Bachelor of Social Sciences from the University of Tampere.
