...crucial hurdles on Thursday when Sweden and Finland gave the go ahead for the $7.4bn project...link beneath the Baltic Sea.Sweden and Finland were the last serious obstacles to the...as "Russia's energy weapon".Sweden and Finland both played down the geopolitical concerns...

Finland is the world's most prosperous nation, not only in monetary matters but in the quality of its democracy and governance, according to the latest Prosperity Index, to be launched by Legatum, the London-based think-tank, this week.Finland took first prize - up from third last year - and is followed by Switzerland and the Scandinavian countries of Sweden, Denmark...

Finland is the world's most prosperous nation, not only in monetary matters, but in the quality of its democracy and governance, according to the latest Prosperity Index, to be launched by Legatum, the London-based think-tank, this week.Finland took first prize - up from third last year - and is followed by Switzerland and the Scandinavian countries of Sweden, Denmark...

Think Finland and a snappy Nokia phone may come to mind, while Switzerland is linked to chocolates and banks. In the case of Belarus, the association...

...Ericsson will take day-to-day responsibility for transmitting all the broadcaster's free-to-air and pay-TV channels in Sweden and Finland.Jan Scherman, chief executive of TV4, said this would save costs and allow the group to focus on content. "The future has so...

...where it can contribute most to the Union, and wants an EU leader with international clout. A popular name in Ankara is that of Finland's Martti Ahtisaari, the Nobel laureate who recently penned a report calling on European countries hostile to Turkey's membership...

...prime minister; or Vaira Vike-Freiberga, Latvia's former president.Not every small country automatically follows this line. Finland and several ex-communist states in central and eastern Europe are cases in point.But the others do, and they defend their position...

...prime minister; or Vaira Vike-Freiberga, Latvia's former president.Not every small country automatically follows this line. Finland and several ex-communist states in central and eastern Europe are cases in point.But the others do, and they defend their position...

...Sarkozy-like grimace. The Visegrad group was, he said, as harmless as other EU regional subgroups, such as the Nordic trio (Denmark, Finland and Sweden), the Benelux countries (Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands), the Iberians (Portugal and Spain) and Club Aristotle...

...was bottom of the pile.And what about last year's winner - Finland's Jyrki Katainen? He slipped to 12th position in 2009, largely...appeared happy to let others steal the limelight12Jyrki Katainen Finland Last year's winner and a man tipped as a future prime minister...