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 ").

* May: ( May 30 / 31, 1995, Lapinjärvi, Southern Finland )

Finland deepened her participation in the European integration by joining the European Union with Sweden and Austria in 1995.

Finland joined the United Nations in 1955 and the European Union in 1995.

Finland is an active participant in the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe ( OSCE ) and in early 1995 assumed the co-chairmanship of the OSCE's Minsk Group on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

Finland became a full member of the European Union ( EU ) in January 1995, at the same time acquiring observer status in the EU's defence arm, the Western European Union.

In June 1995, Greenpeace took a trunk of a tree from the forests of the proposed national park of Koitajoki in Ilomantsi, Finland and put it on display at exhibitions held in Austria and Germany.

from: 1917 till: 1995 shift :(,- 5 ) text: Republic of Finland 1917 – 1995

Finland joined the European Union in 1995.

The process of accession was completed on January 1, 1995, when Finland joined the European Union along with Austria and Sweden.

Here, Denmark joined the EU in 1973, whereas Finland and Sweden joined in 1995 .”

He was Prime Minister of Finland from 1995 to 2003, and Chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Finland from 1993 to 2005.

Sweden and Finland joined the European Union in 1995.

In 1995, Tatu Ylönen, a researcher at Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, designed the first version of the protocol ( now called SSH-1 ) prompted by a password-sniffing attack at his university network.

The keyboards in Finntroll are performed by Henri Sorvali who also performs in Moonsorrow, another folk metal band from Finland that he formed with his cousin Ville Sorvali in 1995.

Ole Torvalds ( 4 August 1916, Ekenäs – 8 February 1995 ) was a Finnish-Swedish journalist and poet from Finland.

The European Ombudsman was established by the Maastricht Treaty and the first, Jacob Söderman of Finland, was elected by Parliament in 1995.

Even with modern agriculture and transportation, food is expensive in Finland compared to other European countries, notwithstanding the effect of accession to the European Union in 1995 and the consequent elimination of trade barriers, with prices of some products like grains, meat and milk dropping by up to 50 %.

Pyhäjärvi ( 1993 – 1995 Pyhäsalmi ) is a town and municipality in the south of Northern Ostrobothnia region, Finland.

) is a populist and nationalist political party in Finland, founded in 1995 following the dissolution of the Finnish Rural Party.

This was the first such election where Austria, Finland and Sweden voted alongside other the other members, having joined in 1995 and voted separately.

Koivu's most renowned achievement with Team Finland is as first line center in the 1995 IIHF World Championships, where Finland won its first IIHF men's gold medal.

* Day of the Finnish Language ( Finland )

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.

Colonel Kari Renko, an engineer at the Finnish Air Force, was quoted by Helsingin Sanomat as saying about this failure, " The problem involves the rocket engines which have been in use for decades " and that Finland first was told of the problems by the Americans about two years ago.

* In addition, Finnish, a Baltic-Finnic language, has calqued the Swedish term as Itämeri " East Sea ", disregarding the geography ( the sea is west of Finland ), though understandably since Finland was a part of Sweden from the Middle Ages until 1809.

The conservative party in Finland is the National Coalition Party ( in Finnish Kansallinen Kokoomus, Kok ).

** Commodore ( Finland ), in the Finnish Navy

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.

* 1918 – Friedrich Karl von Hessen, a German prince elected by the Parliament of Finland to become King Väinö I, renounces the Finnish throne.

Rosa has an especially large following in Finland, and in 1999, he created a special 32-page Donald, Scrooge, Gearloose & nephews strip for his Finnish fans ; Sammon Salaisuus ( translates to The secret of the Sampo, but it is officially named The Quest for Kalevala

The Finnish part lies entirely within Tornio in northern Finland, and is actually only long.

Distinctively eurosceptic Finnish parties are True Finns, Independence Party, Communist Party of Finland and Workers Party of Finland.

In Finnish, parallels are drawn between the figure and the national personification of Finland – Finnish Maiden ( Suomi-neito ) – and the country as a whole can be referrerd in the Finnish language by her name.

After World War I, both Finland and Sweden laid claim to the islands, which are culturally more Swedish than Finnish.

The 200-member unicameral Parliament of Finland is called the Eduskunta ( Finnish ) or Riksdag ( Swedish ).

Generally, Finland has abided by the principle of neutrality and has good relations with nearly all countries, as evidenced by the freedom of travel that a Finnish passport gives.

Discontent with Russian rule, Finnish national identity, and World War I eventually caused Finland to break away from Russia, taking advantage of the fact that Russia was withdrawing from World War I and a revolution was starting in earnest.

Finnish refers to something or someone from, or related to, Finland, such as:

* Finnish people, the primary ethnic group in Finland

* 1808 – Without a previous declaration of war, Russian troops cross the border to Sweden at Abborfors in eastern Finland, thus beginning the Finnish war, in which Sweden will lose the eastern half of the country ( i. e. Finland ) to Russia.

By 1917 Finland had experienced rapid population growth, industrialization, improvements in the economy and standard of living, and the rise of a comprehensive labor movement ; economic, social, and political divisions were deepening while the Finnish political system was in an unstable phase of democratization and modernization.