The Finnish general election is on Sunday 17 April. The election results are expected to be announced around midnight. These two items are about the only thing that can be said with certainty before ...

Finland and Ukraine have formalised a strategic partnership to strengthen electoral processes and democratic resilience through a new memorandum of understanding, published by the Finnish Ministry of ...

Aged 56, the silver-haired and serious-looking Rinne is no stranger to the top of government, having become finance minister in 2014 when he deposed the then leader of his party, Jutta Urpilainen, in ...

The 68-year-old was elected to a first term in 2012 at a time when Finland was experiencing a severe economic crisis. Finnish President Sauli Niinisto, a fiercely pro-European conservative, announced ...