* 1943 – Tarja Halonen, President of Finland

It has been questioned whether President Tarja Halonen represented only Finland or the entire EU when she met with President of Russia Vladimir Putin.

This was reversed in the 2000s, when Tarja Halonen and Erkki Tuomioja made Finland's official policy to resist other EU members ' plans for common defense.

In a cohabitation situation as with Matti Vanhanen's recent second government right-wing government and left-wing President Tarja Halonen, there can be friction between government ministers and the president.

In 2004, Finnish President Tarja Halonen visited Nicaragua where she stated " The Finnish government and Parliament have decided that Nicaragua is one of the main targets of Finnish development aid.

Tarja Kaarina Halonen (; born 24 December 1943 ) was the 11th President of Finland, serving from 2000 to 2012.

5-year-old Tarja Halonen in 1948.

Tarja Halonen ( right ) meeting with the third President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev and the then Prime Minister of Finland Mari Kiviniemi ( left ) in 2010.

* February 6 – Tarja Halonen is elected the first female president of Finland.

** Tarja Halonen, President of Finland

Esko Aho lost the bid for President of Finland to Tarja Halonen in 2000.

He was succeeded by the foreign minister Tarja Halonen.

He qualified for the second round runoff as one of the top two candidates in the first round, but was defeated by the incumbent Tarja Halonen with 51. 8 % of the vote against his 48. 2 %.

In the past, Tuomioja has dated the former Finnish president Tarja Halonen.

He held the position of Minister of Trade and Industry in Lipponen's 2nd government, and became the Minister for Foreign Affairs after Tarja Halonen was elected the President of Finland.

As the Centre Party candidate, Vanhanen challenged President Tarja Halonen in the 2006 Finnish presidential election.

He received 18. 6 % of the vote, coming third to the National Coalition Party's Sauli Niinistö ( 24. 1 %) and Social Democrat and incumbent Tarja Halonen ( 46. 3 %), and thus did not qualify for the runoff.

He is the husband of Tarja Halonen, who was the President of Finland between 2000 and 2012.

SDP's winning candidate was Tarja Halonen.

Center Party's candidate Esko Aho qualified for the runoff, and was defeated by a one-percent margin in the runoff by Tarja Halonen.

" Finnish President Tarja Halonen stated, " The Finnish nation lost in Lennart Meri a close and sincere friend and the world, a great statesman who was one of the leading architects of the post-Cold War world.

In November 2003, the Simon Wiesenthal Center submitted an official request to Finnish President Tarja Halonen for a full-scale investigation by the Finnish authorities of the prisoner exchange In the subsequent study by Professor Heikki Ylikangas it turned out that about 2000 of the exchanged prisoners joined the Wehrmacht, but among the rest there were about 500 political officers or politically dangerous persons, who most likely perished in concentration camps.

On March 17, 2006, Finnish president Tarja Halonen signed the bill into law, effective as of March 27, 2006.

After long and difficult government-forming negotiations, he was elected Prime Minister by the Finnish Parliament, and his government of six parties ( National Coalition, Social Democrats, Left Alliance, Greens, Swedish People's Party and Christian Democrats ) was formally appointed by President Tarja Halonen on June 22, 2011.

Halonen's parents married each other at the beginning of World War II and Tarja was born a few years later.

The guest vocalist was Tarja Turunen, who was the lead vocalist of the still young band Nightwish.

He qualified for the second round runoff ( as one of the top two candidates in the first round ), held on 29 January 2006, but was defeated by Tarja Halonen.

Within Temptation was more influenced by gothic metal, and therefore musically simpler than the more power metal-influenced Nightwish, but both bands shared two key symphonic metal elements-powerful female lead vocals from Tarja Turunen and Sharon den Adel respectively, and the heavy use of classically influenced keyboard playing.

The current Council of State, the 72nd since Finland's independence, was inaugurated by President Tarja Halonen on 22 June 2011.

The 2010 Festival featured two concerts: one of by the Hungarian rock band Republic and the other by Tarja Turunen, who was originally scheduled for 2009, but due to organisatory problems it was postponed.

The 11th President of Finland, Tarja Halonen, was the chairwoman of Seta 1980 – 81.

Autti attended the event with Mattila, where they met the President, Tarja Halonen — who was re-elected for a second term on January 29, 2006 — and her husband Pentti Arajävi.

A presidential election was held in Finland on 15 and 29 January, 2006 which resulted in the Tarja Halonen as President of Finland for a second six-year term.

As no candidate received more than half of the vote, a second round was held on 29 January between the two highest placed candidates from the first round, Tarja Halonen and Sauli Niinistö.

President Tarja Halonen was born in Kallio and lived there until her election as president in 2000.

' Tarja Cronberg ( née Mattila, born 29 June 1943 in Helsinki ) is a Finnish politician and a Member of the European parliament.

Tarja Turunen also performed her last show as lead vocalist of symphonic heavy metal band Nightwish on October 21, 2005.

Lordi were congratulated on their victory by both Finnish President Tarja Halonen and Prime Minister of Finland Matti Vanhanen.

* Ave Maria by Tarja Turunen on the album Henkäys Ikuisuudesta, 2006

He also sang backing vocals on the song " Over the Hills and Far Away " and sang a duet with Tarja Turunen on the live version of " Beauty and the Beast.

" Tony appears on stage with Tarja performing " Beauty and the Beast ," on Nightwish's live DVD From Wishes to Eternity.

The song also had a videoclip, showing singer Tarja Turunen in a red dress on a field and a man designing something that looks like a plane.