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Sweden has ten times more electric cars than Finland, thanks to subsidies, while Norway has over a hundred times more, thanks to the green vehicles’ VAT-free status. What will Finland’s decision-makers have to do to convince the Finns to buy 250,000 electric cars by the year 2030?
May 16, 2017
Foreign Minister and Finns Party leader Timo Soini will meet his US counterpart Rex Tillerson in Alaska this week, but not before stopping in the American capital.
May 08, 2017
The Russian and Finnish foreign ministers praised bilateral ties but took different views of international affairs following their meeting on Finland’s south-east coast.
May 06, 2017
Advance reports last week that Finland had lost its top spot on the World Press Freedom Index are now confirmed. Finland ranks third on this year’s press freedom list, following Norway and Sweden.
April 26, 2017
Finnish Customs reports a turn for the better in Finnish-Russian trade after a long slump, and a survey of 300 Finnish companies shows optimism for business-boosting growth in the eastern neighbour.
April 26, 2017
Up north highs were up to 2 degrees warmer than average and more rain in northwestern Lapland.
April 04, 2017
Interior Minister Paula Risikko says border guards should be given expanded powers to act if national security threatened.
March 02, 2017
2016 was a record-setting year for the tourism sector in Finnish Lapland. More visitors, especially from Asia and the UK, boosted tourism in Finland’s far north by more than 10% last year.
February 17, 2017
Finland, the European Union’s leading producer of gold, is attracting mining companies from around the world.
November 24, 2016
Finland’s exports to Russia in August grew for the first time since December 2013, according to figures from Finnish Customs.
October 31, 2016

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