🇫🇮 Finland Mentioned

Finland's President Alexander Stubb said he would attend meetings with Zelenskiy and Stoere to discuss "Russia's illegal war of aggression against Ukraine and the overall security situation in Europe."

US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner will participate in Ukraine talks in Oslo, joining President Zelensky and leaders from Norway and Finland, as confirmed by the Norwegian government.

With three Arctic nations among its 27 members – Denmark, Finland and Sweden – the European Union has skin in the game.

Finland is seeking to acquire one million anti-personnel mines. The plan to spend 100 million euros ($112 million) on the munitions comes after Helsinki and regional peers withdrew from a United Nations compact rejecting their use. Colonel Riku Mikkonen of the Army Command told Finland’s national news agency STT that officials are now gathering information from suppliers regarding the deal. Helsinki would like domestic manufacturers to supply the mines, and about half a dozen Finnish firms qualify. Finland joined the Ottawa Convention in 2012, but announced its withdrawal in April 2025, citing a worsening security climate. Finland shares a border of roughly 1,340 kilometres (830 miles) with Russia.

Alberta is a vast, resource-rich state with a population slightly smaller than Finland or New Zealand.

ICEYE-X36 is originally a Finnish satellite, launched into space in March 2024 from the Vandenberg space base in the United States, which is also used for the space programme — both military and civilian. ICEYE-X36 uses radar observation and has cooperated with the Ukrainian government since 2022.

The Russian military satellite Kosmos-2612 came very close to the ICEYE-X36 radar satellite, owned by the Finnish-American company ICEYE. An echo of the Russian-Ukrainian war in space: it seems that Russian satellites are following a Finnish device that supplies images to Ukraine’s armed forces.

Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway have issued advisories urging their citizens in France to avoid demonstrations and follow the guidance of local authorities.

Further, MEPs will also decide on disbursing €489m to Mediterranean member states ravaged by storms and flooding, and €1.1m to retrain hundreds of workers laid off in Finland’s paper industry cuts – both on Wednesday (21 October).

The ambassadors of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden will discuss security and crisis preparedness in Makati on 4 November.

Among them is the Finnish biotechnology group UPM, which has recently built a biorefinery for wood-based chemicals in Leuna.

It was with boyish excitement that I clambered down the narrow stepladder and into the control room of FNS Pori, one of four fast attack crafts in the Finnish navy. These vessels spend most of the time patrolling the Gulf of Finland and the archipelago of small islands that straddle the Russian, Estonian, and Finnish borders. The top brass of Finland’s military wants you to understand the acuteness of the danger. I was at the Helsinki Security Forum, a gathering of government and industry representatives and military experts from around the world, earlier this month.

He also met the Danish and Finnish ambassadors, Merete Juhl and Jukka Pajarinen, later the same day.

In Finland, people once put live frogs in milk to keep it fresh; the science behind this strange tradition.

Asked about Le Pen's criticism, French officials noted that France was far from the only country heading to the polls next year. Poland, Slovakia, Italy, Greece and Finland are also due to hold elections.

He travelled to the UK in March last year from his home in Stavanger, but two days later – before he could carry out the hit – armed police arrested him at a hotel in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire.

Hard-right parties sit in the governments of Italy, the Czech Republic, Finland, Slovakia and Croatia, while Slovenia’s government relies on outside support from one.

The so-called Frugals (Germany, Austria, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, and Sweden) want “several hundred billion” more to be cut, mostly from agriculture and cohesion funds, while 17 EU member states (self-named as Friends of Cohesion) criticise the savings.

"I think the Baltic states, Finland, Poland ... have prepared mentally for decades that Russia may commit different levels of attacks," he said.

Finally, Finland flaunts its smelly islands.