🇫🇮 Finland Mentioned

Finland is supporting Indonesia and Pacific countries in preparing for climate change and extreme weather through a new cooperation project involving the Finnish Meteorological Institute.

Team Finland is inviting Finnish food and agricultural technology companies to join a trade mission to Vietnam from 10–13 November 2026.

Finnish companies and business organisations will explore opportunities in Southeast Asia’s emerging markets at an event in Kuopio on 22 September 2026.

Finland and Malaysia are looking to strengthen bilateral cooperation in areas including digitalisation, artificial intelligence, renewable energy and the circular economy.

Alas, almost no foreign leader is as reasonable as Finland’s president, Alexander Stubb.

Finland’s cold-war past offers urgent lessons for Ukraine’s future.

Positive development was mainly shown on the Estonia-Finland and Finland-Sweden routes, with the latter increasing by more than 20%. The number of passengers increased by 5.3% on the Finland-Sweden routes and by 5.8% on the Estonia-Sweden route.

As Denmark, Finland, and Sweden are EU member states in the Arctic, and given their close ties with Norway, Iceland, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States, developments in the Arctic directly impact European security, climate, and the well-being of its people.

While in maintaining external peace we can also rely on soft diplomacy and on our friends and allies—especially those closest to us, the Nordic and Baltic countries—in maintaining internal peace, we have no one to rely on but ourselves.

Lithuania highly values Norway's contribution to the security of NATO's eastern flank, our close ties and our like-minded partnership in formats such as the Nordic-Baltic Eight.

Estonia's new President Ulle Madise is embarking on her first working visits of her term, traveling to Riga on Tuesday and Helsinki on Wednesday to meet with Latvian President Edgars Rinkevics and Finnish head of state Alexander Stubb. “We share long-standing ties of friendship with Latvia and Finland. Good neighbors and reliable allies are of great value to Estonia. In today's uncertain world, these relationships must be nurtured: we must listen, understand, and jointly find solutions to questions concerning our security. That is why my first foreign visits are to Latvia and Finland,” Madise said. On Wednesday, Madise will meet with Finnish head of state Alexander Stubb in Helsinki.

Kulbergs explained that a coalition has been formed with Estonia, Lithuania, Finland, Poland, and Romania to achieve this.

Estonians' closest linguistic relatives are the Finns and Livonians, while more distant kindred peoples include the Hungarians, Sami, Karelians, Vepsians, Maris, Udmurts, Komis, Erzyas, and Mokshas, among others.