Current affairs

One of the key objectives of Finland’s Presidency of the Council of the EU has been to turn the European Union into a global climate leader. The 90 diplomatic and consular missions of Finland abroad have now risen to the challenge. The missions have addressed climate change in diverse ways, ranging from ways to exercise political influence to environmentally friendly choices in everyday life.

Elements for Intervention on behalf of the European Union and its Member States in the Eighteenth Session of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (The Hague, 5 December 2019).

Elements for Intervention on behalf of the European Union and its Member States in the Eighteenth Session of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (The Hague, 4 December 2019).

Statement on behalf of the European Union and its Member States by H.E. Mr. Pekka Haavisto, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Finland, at the Eighteenth Session of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (General Debate, The Hague, 2 December 2019)

The Embassy has exceptional opening hours in December and January.

Statement of the European Union delivered by H.E. Ambassador Mika-Markus Leinonen, EU Liaison Officer to The Hague, at the 24th Session of the Conference of States Parties to the CWC (The Hague, 25 – 29 November 2019)

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

Statement of the European Union delivered by H.E. Ambassador Päivi Kaukoranta, Permanent Representative of Finland to the OPCW at the 92nd Session of the OPCW Executive Council. (The Hague, 8–11 October 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.