Current affairs

Video coverage: The Helsinki Cup, first held in 1976, forms one of the largest junior football tournaments in the world.

Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja and his Estonian counterpart Urmas Paet have expressed their condolences over the acts of terror in Norway. “The events are a tragedy for Norway, but also for all friends of Norway. Finland and Estonia share their grief with Norway,” the ministers said. Tuomioja met Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet in Tallinn on Saturday, 23 July.

Video coverage: The Helsinki Cup, first held in 1976, forms one of the largest junior football tournaments in the world.

Video coverage: The Helsinki Cup, first held in 1976, forms one of the largest junior football tournaments in the world.

Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja will visit Estonia in late July. He is scheduled to meet his Estonian counterpart Urmas Paet on Saturday, 23 July. The ministers will exchange views on current issues of international politics and discuss bilateral relations. This is Mr Tuomioja’s first working visit to Estonia in his capacity as Foreign Minister of the new Finnish Government.

In 2003 Niklas Hed and his friends dreamed up a video game that would eventually become a worldwide phenomenon.

Tom of Finland, probably Finland’s most famous artist, is featured in a retrospective during Turku’s year as European Capital of Culture at the city’s Logomo exhibition centre.

The task of forming a majority government based on the outcome of the April 17th parliamentary elections was beginning to look impossible, but a six-party coalition government and a 100-page government programme have now been created, as proof of Finland’s political pragmatism.

The new Government announced it will pursue an active, initiative-taking foreign policy, in cooperation with the President. Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen emphasised that his Government’s policy on Europe is positive but also determined and realistic.

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