Finnish peace-keeping legislation may be updated
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No changes in peace-keeping legislation are on the horizon. According to the security and defence report, released Friday, the Council of State will, however, take the matter into consideration so necessary ...
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Turkey is preparing to amend a  controversial law on freedom of speech that has been criticized  repeatedly by the European Union and could slow EU accession  talks with Brussels.
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HELSINKI -- The Indonesian government and Aceh rebel leaders will resume peace talks in Finland later this month, the latest effort to end a 30-year conflict in the breakaway region, the Finnish mediator's office said yesterday.
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REYKJAVIK, May 26 (IPS) - There has been a change in the make-up of  Iceland's ruling coalition after the recent parliamentary  elections, which bodes for a new approach to health, education  and farm policy. But how much change is in store regarding the  environment, energy production and the Iraq war remains unclear.
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Prime Minister Vanhanen sees Finnish-Russian ties as closer than ever Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen (Centre) said that contacts between Finland and Russia are "perhaps closer than ever" after he met with the ...
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Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik will rework the traditional New Year's address to the nation after the earthquake and tsunami catastrophe in Southeast Asia.
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Finland, current holder of the European Union presidency, has become the 16th member of the bloc to ratify the EU constitution which was thrown into doubt after referenda in France and the Netherlands last year put the document's implementation on hold.
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BAGHDAD, Feb. 13 -- The Iraqi parliament on Wednesday passed three key measures that for months had been the subject of bickering that threatened to undermine the country's political process.
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Turkish EU candidacy divided Finnish foreign policy leadership in 1999 The issue of possible Turkish membership of an expanded European Union caused deep divisions within Finland's foreign policy leadership in ...
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Polishing memorandum of understanding
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Turkey is preparing to amend a controversial law on freedom of speech that has been criticized repeatedly by the European Union and could slow EU accession talks with Brussels.
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Text of report by Russian news agency Interfax  Rostov-na-Donu, 21 June: The time has come for changes to be made to current legislation in order to strengthen the fight against extremism, Deputy Prosecutor-General Ivan Sydoruk has said.
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The European Chemicals Agency is set to open its doors in Helsinki to enforce the new REACH chemicals law.  The new law, the most complex bill in European Union history, takes effect Friday.
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A Norwegian delegation, lead by Foreign Minister Jan Petersen is presently in Sri Lanka, to try to find out if it is possible to re-start the peace process in the island nation.
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Agreement between Sunnis, Shias and Northern Ireland politicians after four days of talks in Finland.
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The Finnish government gave its approval on Monday to a report to Parliament on Finland's possible participation in a United Nations peacekeeping operation in Lebanon as of October.
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Finland's Speaker of Parliament Paavo Lipponen (SDP), who served as Prime Minister during eight of the ten years that Finland has been a member of the European Union, feels that the period of Finnish EU ...