Parliamentary Defence Committee: Finland is militarily non-allied
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In the latest statement in the ongoing debate over whether or not Finland has become allied or otherwise through its involvement in EU defence forces, the Parliamentary Defence Committee noted on Tuesday that ...
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Finland's Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen shakes hands with his Polish counterpart Jaroslaw Kaczynski during their meeting in Warsaw, November 17.Comment
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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 ...
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Iran's capture of personnel in March a national embarrassment, says Commons defence committee
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David Miliband says Kosovo's declaration of independence does not set a precedent for other separatist movements.
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It's important to debate Canada's war &nbsp;mission in Afghanistan. It's a legitimate and necessary debate. It's a debate occurring in all the NATO countries now being asked to send more troops. Most of these countries, with the exception of Poland and Canada, have resisted further commitments. As in Canada, there is broad questioning within their populations about the core wisdom and merits of this mission. This is not, or as some are suggesting, a re-staging of the Second World War. The fate of the Western world is not hanging in the balance.
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The Scandanavian nation spends a lot in R&D, which has kept them buoyant. Next: Finland wants to move into clean tech.
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President of the Republic of Finland Tarja Halonen, addressing the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, criticised the way the United States-led coalition acted when it invaded Iraq ...
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Vladimir Putin has noted ever wider relations with Finland in all aspects. As our relations are being promoted in all areas, our turnover is likely to approximate 10 billion euros this year, the Russian ...
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"Everything else is a sort of violation of international law."  By David Brunnstrom and Douglas HamiltonBRUSSELS/BELGRADE  - Serbia warned the EU on Wednesday it would not accept any decision on Kosovo taken outside the United Nations and its ally Russia told the United States to stop backing Kosovo independence while talks continue.Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko, Russia's envoy in a troika supervising the Serb-Kosovo Albanian talks that started two weeks ago, accused the United States of bad faith for its declaration of support for Kosovo independence later this year. Read more
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Japan took a significant step away from the pacifism enshrined in its constitution yesterday when it announced new defence guidelines for the first time in nearly a decade.
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Finland's opposition Conservative Party should dare present options, provided it is not happy with the Finnish government's policy on Nato, Suvi-Anne Siimes, the Left Alliance chair writes in a column printed ...
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The UK's security could suffer if investment in defence research is not increased, a committee of MPs says.
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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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Finnish people are exceptionally anti-Russian, shows a wide international Gallup International survey.
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The pre-World Cup of Hockey scouting report on Finland went something like this: If the Miikka Kiprusoff of last season shows up for this tournament, the Finns have at least a fighting chance.
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The Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen (centre) sees no problem in the September speech of the Finnish President Tarja Halonen, neither in its contents nor in its preparation.