There is currently an ongoing controversy as to whether the president or the prime minister is the primary representative of Finland to the EU.

* Finnish people, the primary ethnic group in Finland

In 1820, the first school in Finland conforming to the Bell-Lancaster method was founded in Turku with the aim of making primary education more inclusive to the lower classes.

Prof Antti Revonsuo ( Turku university, Finland ) has limited his ideas to those of " threat rehearsal ," where dreams exercise our primary self-defense instincts, and he has argued this cogently in a number of publications.

In Finland, the head of a primary school is called a rector ( rehtori ) provided the school is of sufficient size in terms of faculty and students.

In Finland, Swedish is a mandatory school subject for Finnish-speaking pupils in the last three years of the primary education ( grades 7 to 9 ), in the same way as Finnish is for the Swedish-speaking.

In Mainland Finland both official languages, Finnish and Swedish, are mandatory subjects for pupils in primary and secondary schools.

In Denmark, Estonia, the Faroe Islands, Finland, Latvia, Norway and Sweden gymnasium consists of three years, usually starting at age 16 after nine or ten years of primary school.

* Finland: lukio ( educational language is Finnish ) or gymnasium ( educational language is Swedish ) takes 2 – 5 years ( most students spend 3 years ), after 9 years of primary school ( peruskoulu in Finnish, grundskola in Swedish ); lukio starts usually in the autumn of the year when the student turns 16 and ends with abitur after passing the matriculation examination ; lukio is not compulsory and its entrance is competitive.

* Some parts of Europe, such as Finland, Estonia, Hungary and Turkey, where the primary language is non-Indo-European ( i. e. Uralic or Altaic ).

The Finnish Parliament has on 15th day of the last November, in support of Section 38 of the Constitution, declared to be the Supreme holder of the State Authority as well as set up a Government to the country, that has taken to its primary task the realization and safeguarding Finland ’ s independence as a state.

Originally Talvela was educated as a primary school teacher in Savonlinna, Eastern Finland ( 1952 – 1956 ), and he worked in that occupation at three schools ( 1957 – 1960 ).

Even though the Danish home market is the primary focus of business, TDC is also represented as a market challenger in Norway, Sweden, and Finland through the business unit TDC Nordic.

In Finland, it is often seen as an important phase of nation building, and the separatist aspect may well be somewhat inflated, putting the conspirators ' primary aim of striving for peace and restoration of political liberties in the background.

Until the late 19th / early 20th century, Swedish was the primary language of status, government, and education in Finland, although spoken as a first language by a relatively small minority.

Postipuu School is a primary school in Espoo, Finland.

The judicial system of Finland is divided between courts with regular civil and criminal jurisdiction and administrative courts with responsibility for litigation between the individuals and the administrative organs of the state and the communities.

Peacekeeping under the auspices of the United Nations is the only real extra-national military responsibility which Finland undertakes.

The foreign relations of Finland are the responsibility of President of Finland, who leads foreign policy in cooperation with the government.

Most services, such as healthcare and maintenance of local streets, were and remain the responsibility of municipalities of Finland.

The front in the Northern Finland was the responsibility of German AOK Norwegen.

It operated as a private university until 1974, when the state of Finland was given the financial responsibility of the university.

The events demanded the overturning of the criminal convictions by the war responsibility trials in Finland.

Finland, like most other European countries, has right-hand traffic.

Rallying became very popular in Sweden and Finland in the 1950s, thanks in part to the invention there of the specialsträcka ( Swedish ) or erikoiskoe ( Finnish ), or special stage: shorter sections of route, usually on minor or private roads — predominantly gravel in these countries — away from habitation and traffic, which were separately timed.

Silja Line is a Finnish cruiseferry brand operated by the Estonian ferry company AS Tallink Grupp, for car and passenger traffic between Finland and Sweden.

The history of Silja Line can be traced back to 1904 when two Finnish shipping companies, Finland Steamship Company ( Finska Ångfartygs Aktiebolaget, FÅA for short ) and Steamship Company Bore, started collaborating on Finland – Sweden traffic.

In Finland, and later in Sweden, a large maritime strike in spring 1980 stopped ferry traffic completely.

The contribution of peat to greenhouse gas emissions of Finland can exceed a yearly amount of 10 million tonnes carbon dioxide, equal to the total emissions of all passenger car traffic in Finland.

The Western Harbour is an important international harbour with daily traffic to Sweden and mainland Finland.

The Swedes then read traffic in the system for three years, not only between Berlin and Oslo, but also between Germany and the German forces in Finland, and of course the German embassy in Stockholm.

President of the Republic of Finland Mauno Koivisto officially opened the Metro for traffic on 2 August 1982 – 27 years after the initial motion to the city assembly had been made.

The Konginkangas bus disaster was a major traffic accident on March 19, 2004, outside the Konginkangas village in Äänekoski, Finland.

The Port of Naantali is the third largest in Finland in terms of goods traffic, and the city is home to a power plant and an oil refinery owned by the government-controlled company Fortum and Neste Oil.

Lying at the base of the Gulf of Bothnia, the Åland Islands are situated alongside all the sea traffic lanes that come in and out of the Gulf, and are within range of Sweden, Finland and the Baltic states to the east.

They were not in traffic at that time in Sweden and they was not War assistance to Finland.

Helsinki commuter rail (,, proper translation Capital local traffic ) is the commuter rail system serving Greater Helsinki, Finland.

During the 1970s and 1980s, ferry traffic between Sweden and Finland expanded heavily.

In the early 1990s, he was also famous for his role as one of the main characters in the Swedish TV series Rederiet, a long-running drama show about a shipping company, which conducts passenger traffic on the Baltic Sea between Stockholm and Åbo in Finland.

On the other hand, Finland and Austria joined the Eurozone from the beginning although their currencies were not part of the ECU basket ( since they had joined the EU in 1995, two years after the ECU composition was " frozen ").

This marks the beginning of the neolithic period for Finland, although the subsistence was still based on hunting and fishing.

* Three Wise Men Day, or Epiphany, in Latin America, Spain, Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic, and is, although not celebrated as widely or in the same way as in countries with a Spanish history, an official holiday in many European countries, for example Austria, Italy, Sweden, Finland, Liechtenstein, Slovakia and Croatia, as well as in parts of Germany and Switzerland.

There are also countries – such as Portugal, South Africa, Finland, the Netherlands, and the Republic of Macedonia – that have proportional representation systems without a threshold, although the Netherlands has a rule that the first seat can never be a remainder seat, which means that there is an effective threshold of 100 % divided by the total number of seats.

The United Kingdom repeatedly called on Finland to cease its offensive against the Soviet Union, and declared war on Finland on 6 December 1941, although no other military operations followed.

Diplomatic relations between Finland and the United States were maintained until June 1944, although the US ambassador had already been recalled earlier.

Gradually, commercialism has made him look more and more like the American Santa Claus, but the Swedish jultomte, the Norwegian julenisse, the Danish julemand and the Finnish joulupukki ( in Finland he is still called the Yule Goat, although his animal features have disappeared ) still has features and traditions that are rooted in the local culture.

In 1582 King John III of Sweden added Grand Prince of Finland to the subsidiary titles of the Swedish kings, although without any factual consequences since Finland was already a part of the Swedish realm.

For the most part, these dialects and the dialects spoken in Sweden are mutually intelligible, although some archaic Swedish dialects in Ostrobothnia are practically unintelligible to Swedish-speaking people in southern Finland ( and in Sweden ).

Also that year, the single " Gaudete " from Below the Salt belatedly became a Christmas hit single, reaching number 14 in the UK Singles Chart, although this a cappella piece, taken from the late renaissance song collection Piae Cantiones from Finland and sung entirely in Latin, cannot be considered representative of the band's music, nor the album from which it was taken.

Bulgaria and Finland, although allies of Germany, did not cooperate with the Porajmos, just as they did not cooperate with the Shoah.

One of the most important tasks facing the new constitutionalist Senate was to consider proposals for the reform of the Diet of Finland and, although initially sceptical about some of the proposal, Ståhlberg played a role in the drafting of the legislation which created the Parliament of Finland.

As it became clear that Finland would be a republic, Stålberg also championed direct election of the President of Finland, but the Council of State chose the electoral college system, although the first President would be elected by Parliament.

In Sweden and Swedish speaking parts of Finland, the maypole is usually called a midsummer pole, midsommarstång, as it appears at the Midsummer celebrations, although the literal translation majstång also occurs.

This was due to the semi final match between Klein and Alfred Asikainen of Finland lasting 11 hours and forty minutes, although they took breaks for refreshments every half hour.

She was chairwoman of the Centre Party of Finland from 18 June 2000 to 5 October 2003, although the first year was as acting leader during Esko Aho's sabbatical leave to lecture at Harvard University.

Several times Swedish speaking presidential candidates have gathered considerable support, although not necessarily as candidates for the Swedish People's Party of Finland:

The party has strongest support in the cities of Southern Finland and is popular among entrepreneurs, although not associating with any particular social group.

Tuomioja is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Finland, although his political views are thought to be more to the left than the party line.

However, even today rural Finland and small towns form the strongest base of support for the party, although it has worked toward making a breakthrough in the major southern cities as well.

The western border of the peninsula stretches along the meridian from the Kola Gulf through the valley of the Kola River, Lake Imandra, and the Niva River to the Kandalaksha Gulf, although some sources push it all the way west to Russia's border with Finland.