Current affairs

“Amiably berserk Vikings with a boatful of instruments” – that’s how our reporter describes Helsinki band Rubik’s ever-shifting carnival of sound. In autumn 2011 they set off on a European tour.

Parks and gardens in Turku, the 2011 European Capital of Culture, are blooming with unique new flower varieties and floral environmental artworks.

Parks and gardens in Turku, the 2011 European Capital of Culture, are blooming with unique new flower varieties and floral environmental artworks.

Parks and gardens in Turku, the 2011 European Capital of Culture, are blooming with unique new flower varieties and floral environmental artworks.

Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb will attend the International Conference on Afghanistan: a Comprehensive Strategy in a Regional Context, to take place in The Hague on Tuesday, 31 March. This conference is a continuation in the series of conferences, held in Bonn, London and Paris since 2002, where the international community has reaffirmed its comprehensive and long-term commitment to Afghanistan.

New Ambassadors to Canberra, the Hague, Madrid, Stockholm, Pretoria and Addis Ababa.

Speech by Foreign Minister Ilkka Kanerva at the at The Clingendael Institute in The Hague on February 19, 2008.

The knowledge and skills of Finnish students in science, mathematics and reading are of the highest order. In science and mathematics they are rated best in the OECD countries and in reading the second best. The main focus in PISA 2006 was science literacy.