Current affairs

Unique winter sports arena called Ylläs-Halli - Ylläs is popular holiday resort in Finnish Lapland - is opening in Helsinki.

Summer in Finland is a time when all sorts of festivals take place, including weird and wonderful events that are found nowhere else in the world. World championships for sitting in the sauna, carrying wives, playing swamp soccer and playing the air guitar are organised only in Finland in summer!

As from 29 June, all new passports issued in Finland will include fingerprints. The President of the Republic approved the amendments to the Passport Act on 26 June. The amendments will enter into force on 29 June.

Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb will participate in the informal meeting of OSCE foreign ministers to be held in Corfu, Greece, on 27-28 June.

Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb will participate in the informal meeting of OSCE foreign ministers to be held in Corfu, Greece, on 27-28 June.

The Embassy is closed on Midsummer's Eve Friday 19th June.

The Finnish New Helsinki Quartet plays works of J. Haydn, W. A. Mozart and J. Sibelius on Sunday 28th June at 9 pm. in Palamidi.

at Athens Festival on Wednesday 17th June at the foot of the Acropolis.

Finnish band, Sunrise Avenue, gives a concert in 4 Mad Live in Athens by VODAFONE CU -event on 11th June.

Kaisa Kulmala Trio is playing jazz in Athens 9th European Jazz Festival in Technopolis on Saturday 30th of May.