The Northern Future Forum took place in Espoo, Finland, the past November 6th and 7th . In between the Finnish parlamentry confidence votes, the Finnish Prime Minister Alexander Stubb hosted the premiers of the five nordic and three baltic states and the UK PM David Cameron. The reason the British premiere David ...

The Finnish and Spanish co-coproduced short film "I should have kissed you in Ankara" directed by Miguel Pons and starred by the Finnish actress Emilia Uutinen and the American Javier Buckenmeyer, has been selected at the XV Kerry Film Festival held this week in Ireland. The film was screened on ...

Yesterday September the 3rd was communicated the acquisition of the Finnish company Nokia by the software giant Microsoft with the amount of 5,440 millions of euros. The sale of the Finnish company caused large increases in the value of the NOKIA shares that reached up to 49 % within the journey ...

The results of the Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia in the last quarter of 2012 are best in years. The company evaluates its earnings for this quarter period, from  October 2012 to December 2012, could rise up to 700 million of euros. The last time Nokia reached such results was ...

The Finnish writer Pirjo Hassinen has received the annual Finnish literary prize Savonia for her novel "Popula". The $ 10,000 prize is given annually to an outstanding novel from the Finnish Savo region, being this year’s edition the 24th. Fruit of the writer's indignation against the recent growth of the extreme right ...

Two Finns and one Austrian were kidnapped yesterday Friday in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa. Apparently the kidnapped are a Finnish man who was studying Arabic at the University of Cales, Yemen, and his girlfriend who was only visiting the country. The Austrian Man is also a language student. According to the information ...

Joulupukki, (Father Christmas or Santa Claus in Finnish) is the most emblematic Christmas figure of the Nordic countries an the whole world. Joulupukki proceeds from Finland, more exactly from Korvatunturi, a village whose location is unknown to all adventurous, as it is Santas’s secret place, where he spends the rest of ...

Yesterday December 6th Finland celebrated its Independence Day. The festivities and institutional events took place throughout the day culminating in the traditional Independence Day Party held at the presidential palace in Helsinki. It is the first time that this celebration is chaired by the newly elected President Sauli Niinistö. The tradition ...

Transparency International has just released the results of its annual comparison study on corruption, held in 176 countries worldwide. Finland and Denmark have gone back to the first position in the list of the least corrupt countries, sharing first place with New Zealand. Sweden is ranked number 4,  Norway is ranked ...

Eight European countries, including Norway, Sweden, Finland along with the Netherlands, Germany, Italy and the UK, are looking for workers from other countries in the fields of metal engineering, shipbuilding and medicine. The employment representatives of two Nordic companies and three firms of the Netherlands  were present in the European ...