Finland's centrist Prime Minister Juha Sipila has backtracked from his plans to house asylum seekers at his country house for security reasons, a government official said Tuesday.<br />"The prime minister has decided that at this stage and situation no one will be placed in his residence in Kempele," the government's security chief Jari Ylitalo told AFP.<br />Sipila, a former businessman who has headed a center-right government since May, vowed on state television in September to host refugees at his country home in Kempele, more than 500 kilometers north of the capital Helsinki.<br />"I hope this becomes some kind of people's movement that will inspire many others to shoulder part of the burden in this refugee housing crisis," Sipila had said at the time.
