Finland’s 2023 Eurovision Song Contest act Kaarija has asked for a video of him and Israeli singer Eden Golan to be removed from social media. Golan qualified on Thursday at Malmo Arena in Sweden for the final of the competition amid pro-Palestinian protests against Israel being included in the event. In the clip, Kaarija – […]
With Hungary’s parliament voting to ratify Sweden’s bid to join NATO, the Scandinavian nation is set to join 31 other countries in the alliance. After nearly two years of negotiations, Sweden follows Finland, which was accepted into NATO last year. The countries applied to join at the same time in May 2022, but Hungary and […]
Alexander Stubb declared himself winner of Finland’s presidential election on Sunday after a campaign built on promises to make the most of his country’s new membership of Nato and back Ukraine in its war with shared neighbour Russia. In his new job, the centre-right former prime minister and investment banker will head up foreign and […]
By Anne Kauranen HELSINKI (Reuters) – Alexander Stubb declared himself winner of Finland’s presidential election on Sunday after a campaign built on promises to make the most of his country’s new membership of NATO and back Ukraine in its war with shared neighbour Russia. In his new job, the centre-right former prime minister and investment […]
(Bloomberg) — Finland’s presidential aspirants Alexander Stubb, a former prime minister, and Pekka Haavisto, the previous foreign minister, are hitting the campaign trail on Monday after clearing the first hurdle in the race. Most Read from Bloomberg The two barreled past other candidates to face each other in a runoff in two weeks, with Stubb […]
Former prime minister Alexander Stubb won the first round of Finland’s presidential election on Sunday and will face runner-up ex-foreign minister Pekka Haavisto in a runoff next month. The vote centred on the Nordic country’s new role as a Nato frontline country with Russia, and the security situation in Europe. With 99.8% of the votes […]
(Bloomberg) — Finland’s presidential race saw former Prime Minister Alexander Stubb and former Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto in the lead, nearing a runoff in two weeks. Most Read from Bloomberg With about 92% of votes tallied, Stubb was in the lead with 27.2%, followed by Haavisto with 25.5%, according to Justice Ministry’s election website. Read […]
Former prime minister Alexander Stubb was projected to win the first round of Finland’s presidential election on Sunday and face runner-up Pekka Haavisto in a runoff next month. Finnish public broadcaster YLE projected that Mr Stubb won the first round of the presidential election with 27.3% of the votes, while Mr Haavisto, an ex-foreign minister, […]
MILAN — As Finns get ready to head to the polls, over a dozen Finnish companies have been reported to have evaded sanctions by exporting dual-use goods to Russia, a challenge which experts say will be a key issue to tackle by the next leadership. The upcoming Finnish presidential election will take place on Jan […]
By Anne Kauranen HELSINKI (Reuters) – Finland’s record low temperatures this week inspired a tourist on a trip to the Arctic to try a trick that had long intrigued him: throwing boiling water in the air when it’s extremely cold outside and seeing it turn into an instant cloud of icy dust. This is not […]
(Reuters) – Russia will soon deploy its newest howitzers to its Northern Military District which borders Finland and Norway, the head of the Rostec state defence conglomerate said in remarks published on Wednesday. The testing of the new Coalition-SV self-propelled artillery units has been completed and their mass production has already started, Sergei Chemezov, the […]
Helsinki has developed a National Plan for Ukraine’s Reconstruction aimed at improving conditions for Finnish businesses to operate in the war-torn country, the Finnish Foreign Ministry reported, publishing the plan’s first part on Dec. 21. International companies can influence Ukraine’s economic development through their own actions, which is important for employment, tax revenues and the […]