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16.5.2023 | The vision for the future of child welfare and the strategic priorities for achieving it have been finalised. The vision was crystallised into one sentence: Children and their families can rely on child welfare services and their effectiveness.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/1271139/vision-work-highlights-the-need-to-reform-child-welfare
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7.7.2023 | The EU General Affairs Council (GAC) will meet in Brussels on Monday 10 July. The main theme of the meeting will be the Commission's proposal, issued on 20 June, for a mid-term review of the EU's Multiannual Financial Framework 2021–2027. Minister for European Affairs and Ownership Steering Anders Adlercreutz will represent Finland at the meeting.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/european-affairs-ministers-to-start-discussion-on-the-mid-term-review-of-the-eu-financial-framework
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21.3.2022 | EU defence ministers to discuss Strategic Compass Ministry of Defence Publication date 21.3.2022 9.00 Type: Press release Minister of Defence Antti Kaikkonen will attend the EU's Foreign Affairs Council meeting in Brussels on 21 March 2022. The ai...https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/236553176/eu-defence-ministers-to-discuss-strategic-compass
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1.6.2022 | According to Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta, we need to make fundamental changes to how we think, act and measure success. Dasgupta spoke on Wednesday at a conference organised by the Economic Council around the theme of ecologically sustainable economic policy in the 2020s. The discussions were based on the Dasgupta Review, which has attracted wide international attention and emphasises the economic significance of biodiversity.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/10616/ecologically-sustainable-economic-policy-as-a-challenge-for-the-coming-years-significant-structural-change-needed-in-society
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15.3.2022 | Minister of Defence Kaikkonen to attend NATO defence minister meeting Ministry of Defence Publication date 15.3.2022 15.30 Type: Press release Minister of Defence Antti Kaikkonen will attend a working session of the NATO Minister of Defence meetin...https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/236553176/minister-of-defence-kaikkonen-to-attend-nato-defence-minister-meeting-3
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6.2.2023 | Minister of Employment Tuula Haatainen will meet Thierry Breton, EU Commissioner for the Internal Market, in Helsinki on 6 February 2023. They will discuss the functioning of the internal market and the state aid rules.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/1410877/minister-haatainen-to-meet-commissioner-breton
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17.11.2022 | Finland to deliver more defence materiel assistance to Ukraine Ministry of Defence Ministry of Defence Publication date 17.11.2022 12.27 Type: Press release Finland will deliver another package of defence materiel to Ukraine. The President of the ...https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/236553176/finland-to-deliver-more-defence-materiel-assistance-to-ukraine
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10.1.2023 | Prime Minister Sanna Marin will take part in the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Tuesday 17 January.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/prime-minister-marin-to-attend-world-economic-forum-in-davos
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27.1.2023 | Minister of Transport and Communications Timo Harakka will lead a Team Finland delegation to visit South Korea on 29-31 January 2023 to promote exports. The business delegation has 20 members representing the 5G, 6G, quantum technology, space and satellite sectors.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/1410829/minister-harakka-to-lead-a-team-finland-delegation-to-visit-south-korea-1925112
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9.2.2023 | The Government adopted a resolution on hydrogen on 9 February 2023. In its resolution, the Government describes Finland’s objectives regarding hydrogen and the measures to promote them. Finland’s goal is to become the European leader in the hydrogen economy in the entire value chain. Finland has the capacity to produce at least ten per cent of the EU’s emissions-free hydrogen in 2030.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/1410877/government-adopts-resolution-on-hydrogen-finland-could-produce-10-of-eu-s-green-hydrogen-in-2030
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1.12.2022 | Prime Minister Sanna Marin will attend the EU-Western Balkans summit in Tirana, the capital of Albania, on Tuesday 6 December. The meeting will discuss ways to strengthen cooperation between the EU and the Western Balkan countries while also taking into account the impacts of Russia’s war of aggression on the region.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/prime-minister-marin-to-attend-eu-western-balkans-summit-in-tirana
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1.9.2022 | The Government has approved Finland’s participation in the EUR 700 million InvestEU guarantee scheme for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), households and housing companies. The programme promotes investments in clean technology solutions. Finland will invest EUR 100 million in the European Investment Fund’s (EIF) Sustainability Guarantee product, which is a guarantee programme delivered through financial institutions.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/1410877/new-loan-guarantee-scheme-boosts-clean-technology-and-energy-efficiency-investments-in-smes-households-and-housing-companies
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14.11.2022 | Minister of Defence Kaikkonen to Brussels Ministry of Defence Publication date 14.11.2022 14.30 Type: Press release Minister of Defence Antti Kaikkonen will attend the EU's Foreign Affairs Council meeting for defence ministers in Brussels on 15 No...https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/236553176/minister-of-defence-kaikkonen-to-brussels-1
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7.11.2022 | Prime Minister of Slovakia Eduard Heger will visit Helsinki on Thursday 10 November. During his visit, Prime Minister Heger will meet with Prime Minister Sanna Marin and President of the Republic Sauli Niinistö.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/slovakian-prime-minister-to-visit-helsinki
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6.9.2022 | The State of Finland will provide fixed-term bridge financing to Fortum Corporation to mitigate the difficult situation in the Nordic electricity derivatives market. The aim of the arrangement is to strengthen Fortum’s liquidity reserves and thereby secure Finland’s energy supply.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/state-signs-bridge-financing-agreement-with-fortum-to-cover-collateral-needs-in-electricity-derivatives-market
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17.1.2023 | Minister of Transport and Communications Timo Harakka will attend the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, on 17–19 January 2023.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/1410829/minister-harakka-to-attend-world-economic-forum-in-davos-1920684
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16.1.2023 | Minister of Science and Culture Petri Honkonen will visit Washington D.C. in the United States this week from 16 to 19 January 2023. He will meet with several high-level stakeholders in research, higher education and culture. The purpose of the visit is to strengthen cooperation and dialogue with the United States in sectors connected to the Ministry of Education and Culture in Finland.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/1410845/minister-honkonen-to-visit-the-united-states
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18.1.2023 | Minister of the Interior Krista Mikkonen has expressed her deepest condolences to Ukraine and to the families of the people who were killed in the helicopter crash on 18 January. The crash resulted in the death of Ukraine’s Interior Minister Denys Monastyrskyi and other members of the ministry’s leadership.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/1410869/minister-of-the-interior-krista-mikkonen-expresses-her-condolences-to-ukraine
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15.12.2022 | On 15 December 2022, the Government decided that to ease the pressure on the reception systems in the EU Member States in the Mediterranean, Finland will take up to 175 asylum seekers relocated from the region. The asylum seekers can be relocated to Finland if they are likely to be in need of international protection. Priority will be given to vulnerable people, such as unaccompanied minors, single-parent families, persons with medical conditions and persons with disabilities.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/1410869/finland-to-receive-relocated-asylum-seekers-from-the-mediterranean-region
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26.10.2022 | Prime Minister of Sweden Ulf Kristersson will visit Finland on Friday 28 October at the invitation of Prime Minister Sanna Marin. While in Helsinki, Prime Minister Kristersson will also meet with President of the Republic Sauli Niinistö.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/prime-minister-of-sweden-to-visit-helsinki-1
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13.10.2022 | The Ministry of the Environment has appointed Juha Kaakinen to examine ways to achieve the objective to eradicate homelessness. According to the Government Programme, homelessness should be halved during this Government term and abolished by 2027. Homelessness has decreased but not enough to reach the target.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/1410903/homelessness-has-decreased-but-not-enough-study-to-explore-means-to-tackle-this
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16.9.2022 | The high-level meetings of the 77th Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 77) will start in New York on Monday 19 September. Minister for Foreign Affairs Pekka Haavisto and Minister for Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade Ville Skinnari will attend ministerial events in New York and have bilateral meetings with their counterparts and with representatives of the UN. Minister Skinnari also has Team Finland programme.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/ministers-haavisto-and-skinnari-to-attend-high-level-week-of-un-general-assembly-in-new-york
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16.2.2023 | Mental health and the development of the EU’s social dimension are among the key themes to be discussed during the Swedish Presidency of the Council of the EU this year. These are also among the main topics when Minister of Social Affairs and Health Hanna Sarkkinen meets the Swedish Minister for Older People and Social Security Anna Tenje and Minister for Social Affairs and Public Health Jacob Forssmed in Stockholm on 16–17 February 2023.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/1271139/mental-health-themes-increasingly-important-in-the-eu
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20.5.2022 | The second supplementary budget proposal for 2022 responds to appropriations needs directly caused by Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine and mitigates the harm caused by COVID-19 to children and young people.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/government-reaches-agreement-on-second-supplementary-budget-proposal-for-2022
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20.5.2022 | The second supplementary budget proposal for 2022 responds to appropriations needs directly caused by Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine and mitigates the harm caused by COVID-19 to children and young people.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/10616/government-reaches-agreement-on-second-supplementary-budget-proposal-for-2022
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18.9.2023 | The EU General Affairs Council (GAC) will meet on Tuesday 19 September in Brussels. Their agenda will include discussing Spain's request to amend Regulation No 1/1958 (the EU language regulation), preparing for the European Council's October meeting, and continuing the GAC’s rule of law dialogue. Minister for European Affairs and Ownership Steering Anders Adlercreutz will represent Finland at the meeting.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/ministers-for-european-affairs-to-discuss-eu-language-regulation-and-start-preparations-for-october-european-council
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1.6.2022 | According to Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta, we need to make fundamental changes to how we think, act and measure success. Dasgupta spoke on Wednesday at a conference organised by the Economic Council around the theme of ecologically sustainable economic policy in the 2020s. The discussions were based on the Dasgupta Review, which has attracted wide international attention and emphasises the economic significance of biodiversity.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/ecologically-sustainable-economic-policy-as-a-challenge-for-the-coming-years-significant-structural-change-needed-in-society
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18.1.2023 | On 18 January 2023, Minister of Transport and Communications of Finland Timo Harakka and Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine and Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov signed a Memorandum of Understanding between the Finnish and Ukrainian Ministries on cooperation to promote digital resistance and transformation.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/1410829/finland-and-ukraine-agree-on-cooperation-to-promote-digitalisation-1921623
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6.2.2023 | Minister of Transport and Communications Timo Harakka opened, on 6 February 2023, the Elements of 6G Unleashed organised by Business Finland and 6G Finland.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/1410829/minister-harakka-opened-business-finland-s-6g-seminar-1936831
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5.4.2023 | Minister for Foreign Affairs Pekka Haavisto will visit Nairobi, Kenya, from 6 to 7 April. He will meet Kenya’s Minister of Foreign and Diaspora Affairs Alfred Mutua, leaders of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and other international organisations, and representatives of civil society. Among the topics of the meetings are Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, bilateral relations between Finl...https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/minister-for-foreign-affairs-haavisto-to-visit-kenya
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30.5.2023 | On 30 May 2023, Minister of the Interior Krista Mikkonen will attend an informal meeting of EU civil preparedness ministers in Brussels on CBRN threats (chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear). The coordination meeting was convened by Commissioner for Crisis Management Janez Lenarčič and the Swedish Minister of Civil Defence Carl-Oskar Bohlin.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/1410869/minister-mikkonen-to-travel-to-brussels-for-informal-ministerial-meeting-on-cbrn-threats
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13.9.2022 | Minister of Defence Antti Kaikkonen to participate in meeting on materiel assistance to Ukraine Ministry of Defence Publication date 13.9.2022 8.40 Type: Press release On Tuesday 13 September 2022, Minister of Defence Antti Kaikkonen will particip...https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/236553176/minister-of-defence-antti-kaikkonen-to-participate-in-meeting-on-materiel-assistance-to-ukraine
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5.1.2023 | Minister for Foreign Affairs Pekka Haavisto will attend a security conference in Sälen, Sweden, on 8 January.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/foreign-minister-haavisto-to-attend-security-conference-in-salen
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4.3.2022 | Prime Minister of Sweden Magdalena Andersson and Sweden's Minister of Defence Peter Hultqvist will visit Finland on Saturday 5 March.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/sweden-s-prime-minister-and-minister-for-defence-to-visit-finland
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15.6.2022 | The EU ministers responsible for employment and social affairs will meet at the Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council (EPSCO) in Luxembourg on 16 June 2022. Finland’s representatives at the Council will be Minister of Employment Tuula Haatainen and Minister of Social Affairs and Health Hanna Sarkkinen.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/1410877/eu-employment-and-social-affairs-ministers-to-discuss-follow-up-to-porto-social-summit-european-semester-and-employment-of-people-with-disabilities
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7.7.2023 | On Friday 7 July, the Ministerial Committee on European Union Affairs outlined its positions on the mid-term review of the EU's multiannual financial framework, the reform of the EU fiscal policy framework and the development of the bank crisis management and deposit insurance (CMDI) framework.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/ministerial-committee-on-european-union-affairs-outlined-finland-s-positions-on-the-mid-term-review-of-the-eu-s-multiannual-financial-framework-for-2021-2027
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11.5.2022 | On Wednesday 11 May, Prime Minister Sanna Marin met with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Tokyo. The prime ministers discussed bilateral relations and the current security situation, especially Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its consequences, along with the security environment in Asia.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/prime-minister-marin-meets-with-japanese-leaders-in-tokyo
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13.3.2023 | At their meeting on 13 March, the EU social affairs and employment ministers will discuss the labour market situation of temporarily displaced Ukrainians and the situation of children. The ministers will also exchange views on the European Semester for economic policy coordination and the related sustainable growth survey and joint employment report.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/1271139/eu-ministers-to-discuss-the-situation-of-ukrainian-refugees-and-the-european-semester
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17.1.2023 | Minister of Transport and Communications Timo Harakka will attend the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, on 17–19 January 2023.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/minister-harakka-to-attend-world-economic-forum-in-davos
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10.5.2022 | The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment prepares to launch the operations of the state-owned special assignment company Työkanava Ltd on 1 July 2022. As the body responsible for the company's ownership steering, the Ministry has appointed a board of directors for Työkanava.https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/1410877/ministry-of-economic-affairs-and-employment-appoints-a-board-for-tyokanava-ltd