Current affairs

The EU is revising its Visa Code in order to facilitate visa procedures for travellers and to respond more effectively to the challenges posed by illegal migration. Finland will start applying the new Visa Code on 2 February 2020 together with other Schengen countries.

The Embassy of Finland Prague decided to organize a seminar about the Finnish Education System in cooperation with Europe House in Bratislava and it took place on Thursday, November 28, 2019. Our main goal was to highlight the key values of the Finnish Education System: equality, equity, collaboration, trust and prioritizing of education. Finland serves as a good example and inspiration to the Slovak Republic, where Finnish Education System resembles to the highest quality.

The main promotion theme of Embassy of Finland Prague for the year 2019 was “Education”. After successful event in May 2019 (Conference about Finnish Education System in Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic), the Embassy of Finland in Prague cooperated with Economia Press House and decided to take part in Prague Education Festival.

The Embassy of Finland will be closed 24.-26.12.2019 and 1.1.2020.

All Finnish missions abroad and organisations issuing visas, including the Border Guard, Finnish Customs and the Police, started to use the new EU visa sticker on 11 November 2019

From 1 October 2019, Schengen visas will be issued by the following seven embassies of Finland in Europe: Berlin, Dublin, London, Madrid, Nicosia, Sofia and Stockholm.

The Ambassador Jukka Uolevi Pesola opened this year's cultural summer in Žihobce at the vernissages of Czech-Finnish artist, Mr. Petr Řehoř, and an artist, Mrs. Táňa Svatošová, at the Finnish Cultural Center Stella Polaris on Saturday 29 June 2019.