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Tarja Kaarina Halonen (; born 24 December 1943 ) was the 11th President of Finland, serving from 2000 to 2012.
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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 Halonen was born on 24 December 1943 in the district of Kallio which is a traditional working-class area in central Helsinki.
Tarja Halonen ( right ) meeting with the third President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev and the then Prime Minister of Finland Mari Kiviniemi ( left ) in 2010.
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 %.
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.
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.
Tarja and born
Halonen's parents married each other at the beginning of World War II and Tarja was born a few years later.
' Tarja Cronberg ( née Mattila, born 29 June 1943 in Helsinki ) is a Finnish politician and a Member of the European parliament.
Tarja and December
Yhden Enkelin Unelma (" One Angel's Dream ") is a Christmas single by Finnish singer Tarja Turunen, released as Turunen's first solo project ever, when she was still part of the symphonic metal band Nightwish, back in December 2004 ; it was also released as an Extended Play in limited edition.
Tarja and was
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.
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.
Tarja and President
Lordi were congratulated on their victory by both Finnish President Tarja Halonen and Prime Minister of Finland Matti Vanhanen.
At the concert, President of Finland Tarja Halonen made an official appearance to give Lordi a bronze key flag award for exemplary work.
The President of Republic Mrs. Tarja Halonen appointed Mr. Vilén to Finland's ambassador in Hungary from 1 August 2007.
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