[Sethomas]

Well, it's because Finnish is a non-Indo-European language. Therefore, it's hard (on top of pointless) for other Europeans to learn, making it not quite as economically valuable in the international market as dog vomit. If you know Swedish you can at least understand Norwegian and so forth, but Finnish? Nothing, unless you're really into Hungarian.

So, they learn English so they don't starve to death.