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The Finnish Government (Finnish: Suomen valtioneuvosto; Swedish: Finlands statsråd; lit. ' Finland's council of state ') [2] [3] is the executive branch and cabinet of Finland, which directs the politics of Finland and is the main source of legislation proposed to the Parliament.
Finland has a parliamentary system, even if the President of Finland is formally responsible for foreign policy. Most executive power lies in the cabinet (the Finnish Government) headed by the prime minister. Responsibility for forming the cabinet out of several political parties and negotiating its platform is granted to the leader of the ...
The first years of the new Parliament were difficult. Between 1908 and 1916 the power of the Finnish Parliament was almost completely neutralized by the Russian Tsar Nicholas II and the so-called "sabre senate" of Finland, a bureaucratic government formed by Imperial Russian Army officers during the second period of "Russification". The ...
The Orpo Cabinet is the 77th government of Finland.It was formed following the 2023 Finnish parliamentary election and succeeds the Marin Cabinet led by the Social Democrats and was formally appointed by President Sauli Niinistö on 20 June 2023.
Finland's government survived on Friday a no-confidence vote in parliament called by the opposition over a racism scandal that has rocked the ruling coalition since it took office in June, an ...
The prime minister of Finland (Finnish: Suomen pääministeri; Swedish: Finlands statsminister) is the leader of the Finnish Government. The prime minister and their cabinet exercise executive authority in the state.
The Kremlin has denied Helsinki's claims and instead accused the Finnish government of an unwillingness to hold a dialogue on the border issue. All eight Finland-Russia land border crossing points ...
Finland, [a] officially the Republic of Finland, [b] [c] is a Nordic country in Northern Europe.It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, opposite Estonia.