Finland's Lipponen prods incomes talks sides toward negotiation table
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Speaker of Finland's Parliament and Social Democratic Party leader Paavo Lipponen on Friday urged the polemicists in the country's tripartite comprehensive incomes policy talks to finally sit down and talk it ...
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Consumer prices in Finland rose by 0.9% in October from the same month a year earlier mainly due to higher prices for liquid fuels, Statistics Finland said on Monday.
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A former Finnish defence minister and an influential academic were quoted as saying in Saturday's Hufvudstadsbladet, the Swedish-language daily, that the potential opponents of President Tarja Halonen and the ...
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A US envoy said this week's talks on North Korea's nuclear weapons could discuss economic incentives for Pyongyang, but Japan ruled out funding a deal without progress in a dispute over kidnapped Japanese.
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Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen (centre) and Swedish colleague Goran Persson are to meet on Monday in the towns of Tornio and Haparanda on adjacent banks of the Tornionjoki border river in Lapland.
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PARIS, Jan 17 (IPS) - The richer nations have made much of the freeze  they have offered on debt repayments from tsunami-hit countries,  but many of the affected countries do not seem to want this  concession.
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PARIS, Sept. 27 -- Carlos Ghosn, chief executive of Nissan Motor Co. and Renault SA, sought Wednesday to dampen speculation that talks on a possible alliance between his companies and General Motors Corp. were crumbling.
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The spike in oil prices in recent months is stoking heated arguments between market players, who blame each other for the lack of production capacities that has been exposed by strong global demand.
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VIENNA: The spike in oil prices is stoking heated arguments between market players, who blame each other for lack of output capacities that has been exposed by strong global demand.
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Bee Washington Bureau. WASHINGTON - Trying to avert a trans-Atlantic trade war over government subsidies to Airbus, US and European negotiators found little to agree on Thursday during a five-hour meeting in Brussels, Belgium.
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Recently there has been a roiling debate about how to describe living standards in this country.
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Film producers in Finland take strike action over claims the government has failed to deliver on subsidies.
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Nokia and Qualcomm have entered a new round in their high-stakes fight over patent royalties, with the Finnish handset maker landing its first counter-punch.
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U.S. negotiators came to the defense of Boeing Co. Thursday, seeking cuts in European Union subsidies for rival Airbus Industrie in the latest talks on the trans-Atlantic dispute centering on the world's biggest aircraft makers.
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The Indonesian government says it is sending several ministers to Finland for talks with Aceh's rebel leaders.
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Indonesia said a clearer agenda was needed for dialogue with separatist rebels after talks in Finland failed to yield a formal truce, even as its troops killed four guerrillas in a new skirmish in tsunami-hit ...
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Confederation of Finnish Industries (EK) CEO Leif Fagernas still considers very moderate pay rises and cnsiderable tax cuts the best labour market solution for employment, competitiveness and buying power.