Current affairs

The Embassy of Finland in Beijing is seeking qualified applicant for the position of a locally hired driver starting on 14th August 2023 or as agreed.

Minister for Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade Ville Skinnari will attend the Foreign Affairs Council in its trade configuration in Brussels on Thursday 25 May. The trade ministers will discuss the EU’s trade relations with the United States and China and preparations for the next Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO). The ministers will also discuss the EU’s ongoing bilateral trade negotiations.

Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto's keynote address at the Fletcher School Commencement May 21, 2023.

Finnish companies will be presented at the Finland Pavilion at Design Shanghai Expo in Shanghai, China, from 8 to 11 June 2023. More than 600 exhibitors from 40 countries will participate at the expo. The expected number of expo visitors is more than 70,000.

As of 15 May, the email addresses of the staff members at Finland’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs and missions abroad will be, as a rule, in the format [email protected] The change is part of the overall harmonisation of the Government’s email addresses.

Permanent Secretary of Ministry of Transport and Communications Minna Kivimäki has been nominated a candidate for the post of Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization (IMO). There are altogether seven candidates for the post.

The Ministry for Foreign Affairs completes Finland’s relief effort in Sudan on Thursday 27 April.

Finland will join NATO on Tuesday 4 April. We collected the daily events and links to live webcasts from Brussels.