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.

Minister for Foreign Affairs Soini will have a meeting with New Zealand's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Winston Peters in Helsinki on 26 April.

Minister for European Affairs and Foreign Trade Alexander Stubb will make a Team Finland trip to New Zealand and Australia between 28 November and 3 December. He will be accompanied by a business delegation, consisting of representatives of the mining industry, the machine and construction industry, information technology, the forwarding business, health and well-being services, and the food industry. The delegation was assembled by Finpro.