Rates in Greece and Finland are fairly high, actually the highest in Europe, and, surprisingly enough, they are also quite high in Ireland.

Aalto also entered several architectural competitions for prestigious state public buildings, both in Finland and abroad, including the two competitions for the Finnish Parliamentary building in 1923 and 1924, the extension to the University of Helsinki in 1931, and the building to house the League of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1926-27.

This was also seen in Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Pacific, Scandinavia, Serbia, Spain, Thailand, Philippines and Mexico.

The brown bear's principal range includes parts of Russia, the United States ( mostly in Alaska ), Canada, the Carpathian region ( especially Romania, but also Ukraine, Slovakia, Poland and so on ), the Balkans, Sweden and Finland, where it is the national animal.

The Church of Finland also allows prayer for same-sex couples.

Finnish dog tags are also designed to be broken in two ; however, the only text on it is the personal identification number and the letters SF, which stands for Suomi Finland, within a tower stamped atop of the upper half.

As well as TU / e and Delft University of Technology, the top 10 also includes two universities in Japan ( Tokyo Institute of Technology and Keio University in Tokyo ), two in Sweden ( University of Gothenburg and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm ), and one each in Denmark ( DTU Technical University of Denmark in Lyngby ), Finland ( University of Helsinki ), Norway ( Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim ) and the USA ( Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York ).

Liberals are also in government in eight other EU member states: Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Sweden.

The process also means that Finland is growing about seven square kilometres yearly as land emerges from the sea.

The warm waters of the Gulf Stream and the North Atlantic Drift Current, which warm Norway and Sweden, also warm Finland.

Finland also differed from the other Nordic countries in that the generational transition from the rural occupations to white-collar positions was more likely to be direct, bypassing manual occupations.

The world's northernmost motorway is also located in Finland between Keminmaa and Tornio ( Main road 29 / E8 ).

Cooperation with the other Scandinavian countries also is important to Finland, and it has been a member of the Nordic Council since 1955.

In 1994, Finland joined NATO's Partnership for Peace ; the country is also an observer in the North Atlantic Cooperation Council.

The game of floorball is also known by many other names, such as salibandy ( in Finland ), innebandy ( in Sweden and Norway ), and unihockey ( in Switzerland and Germany ).

The bill also furthered Finnish independence by restricting Russia's influence on domestic Finnish affairs: the Provisional Government of Russia would determine only the foreign and military policies of Finland.

There was also a number of neutral, or Third World, countries in between, including Finland, Yugoslavia, Sweden, Ireland, Austria and Switzerland.

In 1952, Finland and the countries of the Nordic Council entered into a passport union, allowing their citizens to cross borders without passports and soon also to apply for jobs and claim social security benefits in the other countries.

Finland has also opposed energy projects that increase dependency on Russian imports.

* In Finland, the month of Tammikuu means the heart of the winter and because the name also means Oak, it can be inferred that the oak tree is the heart of grand forest with many valuable trees as opposed to the typical Arctic forests which are typically pine and spruce.

) In 1912, Finland also swept the medals in the only appearance in the Olympics of two-handed javelin, an event in which the implement was separately thrown with both the right hand and the left hand and the marks were added together.

However, both Soviet Russia and Finland had flotillas in Ladoga ( see also Finnish Ladoga Naval Detachment ).

Finland also declined in order to avoid antagonizing the Soviets ( see also Finlandization ).

Empress Maria Feodorovna, the mistress of Langinkoski retreat, was also otherwise a known friend of Finland.

Sorsa later said that he wanted his parliamentary secretary to have good ties with the trade unions of Finland and have skills in jurisprudence.

The Red Army wanted to modernize its equipment after the suspension of the Winter War with Finland.

There were even monarchists who wanted to make him King of Finland.

Finnish historians, political scientists and journalists still debate whether President Kekkonen really wanted to dismiss Prime Minister Koivisto or whether Kekkonen wanted to speed up Koivisto's slow and ponderous decision-making or whether this government crisis was just a part of the ruthless " presidential game " that top politicians, such as Koivisto, Foreign Minister Väyrynen, Social Democratic Chairman Sorsa, acting Governor of the Bank of Finland Karjalainen, and Parliamentary Speaker Virolainen, were playing ( see, for example, Pekka Hyvärinen, " Finland's Man: Urho Kekkonen's Life " / Suomen mies.

The Soviet Union wanted to annex Finland and offered a union agreement, but Finland rejected it, which caused Soviet Union to attack against Finland on November 30.

In particular, they wanted him to bring back the red mulberry in the hope of starting a silk industry in Finland ( which was then an integral part of Sweden, today also known as Sweden-Finland ).

Only Jenny and Ulf went on a promotional tour of Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Germany, Poland and Austria ; Jonas wanted to stay at home with his two children and Linn attended only one performance in Germany.

It wanted Sweden's foreign policy to mainly concern itself with relations with Sweden's " real neighbours ," which it regarded to be ; Denmark, Finland, Norway, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Germany, Poland and Russia, as well as its trading partners in Europe and North America.

The Finnish intelligentsia wanted a purely Finnish university, the first of its kind in Finland.

Rally Finland was started as a quickly improvised qualifier event for the Monte Carlo Rally ; thirty Finnish drivers wanted to take part in Monte Carlo, but only 14 fit within the quotas on Finns and Swedes.

It is noted that Russians wanted to cut Finland in half and overrun Petsamo in the north and Helsinki in the south.

So it was no wonder that neither Finland or Germany wanted formalized alliance in the beginning in their fight against Soviet Union, though from very different reasons.

Niska was eventually wanted both in Sweden and Finland.

She was also asked to participate in Miss Finland beauty pageants several times, but refused, because she wanted to concentrate on her playing.

Nils arrived from Finland ( that was a part of Sweden at the time ) as he wanted to avoid being drafted to the war with Russia.

Some of the conflicts were incursions from Finland and some were local uprisings, where volunteers wanted either to help the people in their fight for independence or to annex the areas to Finland.

The party's main election issue has been since its inception the Swedish-speaking Finns ' right to their own language and to maintain the Swedish language's position in Finland.

Copterline used to maintain hourly passenger flights across the Gulf of Finland between Helsinki, Finland ( Helsinki Hernesaari Heliport ) and Tallinn, Estonia ( Tallinn Linnahall Heliport ) between 07: 00 – 20: 00 ( 14 round trips ), 9: 00 – 17: 00 on Saturdays ( 9 round trips ) and 10: 00 – 16: 00 on Sundays ( 7 round trips ).