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Paavo Lipponen's Second Cabinet
Paavo Lipponen's second cabinet was the 67th government of Finland. The cabinet was in office from 15 April 1999 to 17 April 2003. It was a center-left majority government, despite the center-right National Coalition Party's inclusion in the cabinet. The Green League The Green League (VIHR, fi, Vihreä liitto , sv, Gröna förbundet), shortened to the Greens ( fi, Vihreät, sv, De Gröna), is a green political party in Finland. Ideologically, the Green League is positioned on the centre-left of the polit ... left the government on 31 May 2002 in protest of the government's decision to build the country's fifth nuclear power plant. 1999 establishments in Finland Lipponen, 2 2003 disestablishments in Finland Cabinets established in 1999 Cabinets disestablished in 2003 {{Finland-poli-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland across Estonia to the south. Finland covers an area of with a population of 5.6 million. Helsinki is the capital and largest city, forming a larger metropolitan area with the neighbouring cities of Espoo, Kauniainen, and Vantaa. The vast majority of the population are ethnic Finns. Finnish, alongside Swedish, are the official languages. Swedish is the native language of 5.2% of the population. Finland's climate varies from humid continental in the south to the boreal in the north. The land cover is primarily a boreal forest biome, with more than 180,000 recorded lakes. Finland was first inhabited around 9000 BC after the Last Glacial Period. The Stone Age introduced several differ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Center-left
Centre-left politics lean to the left on the left–right political spectrum but are closer to the centre than other left-wing politics. Those on the centre-left believe in working within the established systems to improve social justice. The centre-left promotes a degree of social equality that it believes is achievable through promoting equal opportunity.Oliver H. Woshinsky. ''Explaining Politics: Culture, Institutions, and Political Behavior''. New York: Routledge, 2008, pp. 143. The centre-left emphasizes that the achievement of equality requires personal responsibility in areas in control by the individual person through their abilities and talents as well as social responsibility in areas outside control by the person in their abilities or talents. The centre-left opposes a wide gap between the rich and the poor and supports moderate measures to reduce the economic gap, such as a progressive income tax, laws prohibiting child labour, minimum wage laws, laws regulating work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kimmo Sasi
Kimmo Kalevi Immeri Sasi (born 21 February 1952) is a Finnish politician and lawyer. A member of the centre-right National Coalition Party, he has served a member of the Parliament of Finland since 1983. He served as Minister of Foreign Trade from 1999 to 2002 and as Minister of Transport and Communications in the government of Finland sv, Finlands statsråd , border = , image = File:Finnish Government logo.png , image_size = 250 , caption = , date = , state = Republic of Finland , polity = , coun ... from 2002 to 2003. He was chairman of the parliamentary committee on constitutional affairs from 2003 to 2011, and has served as chairman of the standing committee on finance since 2011. He served as President of the Nordic Council in 2012. , [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olli-Pekka Heinonen
Olli-Pekka Heinonen (born 25 June 1964) is a Finnish politician and public servant. During his career as a politician he represented the National Coalition Party.Olli-Pekka Heinonen Parliament of Finland. Retrieved January 27, 2017. Career Heinonen was born in . He graduated as Master of Laws from the in 1990. From 1994 to 1999, he served as the Minister of Education< ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jari Koskinen
Jari Antero Koskinen (born 11 June 1960) is a Finnish politician who was Minister for Agriculture and Forestry of Finland from 2011 to 2014, as well as a former representative of the National Coalition Party in the Parliament of Finland. He also served as Minister for Agriculture and Forestry in Paavo Lipponen's second Cabinet Paavo Lipponen's second cabinet was the 67th government of Finland. The cabinet was in office from 15 April 1999 to 17 April 2003. It was a center-left majority government, despite the center-right National Coalition Party's inclusion in the ca ... from 2002 to 2003. In 2015 Koskinen was nominated as the CEO of the Association of Finnish Local and Regional Authorities. He remained in the position until resigning himself in August 2018. References 1960 births Living people People from Hämeenlinna National Coalition Party politicians Ministers of Agriculture of Finland Members of the Parliament of Finland (1995–99) Members of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalevi Hemilä
Kalevi may refer to * Kalevi (mythology), an ancient Finnish and Estonian ruler, known from the Finnish epic Kalevala and Estonian epic Kalevipoeg. * Kalevi, Estonia Kalevi is a village in Rapla Parish, Rapla County in northwestern Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Fi ..., a village in Estonia * Kalevi (given name), a Finnish and Estonian given name (including a list of people with the name) {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maija Rask
Maija-Liisa Rask (born 28 January 1951) is a Finnish retired politician and nurse. She represented Lapland in the Parliament of Finland as a member of the Social Democratic Party from 1991 to 2007. As minister of education from 1999 to 2003, she was one of the 29 signers of the Bologna declaration. Biography Rask was born on 28 January 1951 in Turku, Finland. She qualified as a registered nurse in 1974 and as a public health nurse in 1980. From 1974 to 1984, she worked at hospitals in Uppsala and Kemi. Rask received a degree in nursing education from the Kemi Institute of Health Care in 1983, where she became a teacher in 1985. She was elected to the city council of Kemi that year, and she was a presidential elector in the 1988 Finnish presidential election. Rask studied environmental protection at the University of Lapland, and received a degree in 1990. Rask was elected to the Finnish Parliament in 1991, as the only member of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) to represent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suvi-Anne Siimes
Sini Maaria Suvi-Anne Siimes (born 1 June 1963, in Helsinki) is a former chair of the Finnish Left Alliance. She quit the party in 2006 because she did not want to support the party's former taistoists (orthodox pro-Soviet communists). Before her political career, she had several short teaching posts in University of Helsinki and Kauppakorkeakoulu and she was planning a scientist / researcher career in economic sciences Her political career started in local politics in Pohja (a small town in South-Western Finland) She was chairperson of the Finnish Left Alliance 1998–2006 and was a member of the Finnish Parliament (''Eduskunta'') from 1999 to 2007. She served as a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and a delegate for Finland in the Nordic Council. In the two Cabinets of Paavo Lipponen (1995–2003), Siimes served as the Coordinate Minister for Culture (1998–1999) and as the Minister of Finance (1999–2003). From 1995 to 2000, she was a deputy member o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sauli Niinistö
Sauli Väinämö Niinistö (; born 24 August 1948) is a Finnish politician who has served as president of Finland since March 2012, the 12th person to hold that office. A lawyer by education, Niinistö was Chairman of the National Coalition Party (NCP) from 1994 to 2001, Minister of Justice from 1995 to 1996, Minister of Finance from 1996 to 2003, Deputy Prime Minister from 1995 to 2001 and the NCP candidate in the 2006 presidential election. He served as the Speaker of the Parliament of Finland from 2007 to 2011 and has been the honorary president of the European People's Party (EPP) since 2002. Niinistö was the NCP candidate in the 2012 presidential election, defeating Pekka Haavisto of the Green League (VIHR) with 62.6% of the vote in the decisive second round. Niinistö assumed office on 1 March 2012; he is the first NCP president since Juho Kusti Paasikivi, who left office in 1956. In May 2017, Niinistö announced that he would seek reelection in the 2018 presidential el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan-Erik Enestam
Jan-Erik Enestam (born 12 March 1947 in Västanfjärd) is a Finland-Swedish politician from the Swedish People's Party. He has a degree from the Åbo Akademi university in Turku. Enestam was the Municipal Director of Västanfjärd between 1978 and 1983 and a Project Chief at the Nordic Council of Ministers during the period 1983–1991. He was a member of Finland's parliament, the Eduskunta, from 1991 until 2007 and a member of the government between 1995 and 2006 in various posts. He led the Swedish People's Party from 1998 until 2006. He was succeeded by Stefan Wallin as leader at the beginning of 2007. Career Some previous posts he has held are: *Government of Åland, Head of Office, 1974–1978 *Municipality of Västanfjärd, Municipal Manager, 1978–1983 *Nordic Council of Ministers, Project Manager for Archipelago Cooperation, 1983–1991 *Municipal Council of Västänfjärd, Chairperson, 1989–1996 *Special Adviser to the Minister of Defence, 1990–1991 *Member of Parli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ville Itälä
Ville Heimo Antero Itälä (born 10 May 1959 in Luumäki) is the Director-General of the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) and a former a Finnish politician. He was elected member of the Finnish Parliament (Eduskunta) from the district of Southwest Finland in 1995. Itälä served as the Minister of the Interior under Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen from September 2000 to April 2003. He was elected chairman of the National Coalition Party (Kokoomus) in 2001. Following his resignation as party leader in 2004, he was succeeded by Jyrki Katainen. Itälä was a Member of the European Parliament from 2004 until 29 February 2012. He was a member of the European Court of Auditorshttps://www.eca.europa.eu/Lists/ECADocuments/CV_IT%C3%84L%C3%84/CV_IT%C3%84L%C3%84_EN.pdf from 2012 until February 2018. Since August 2018 he is the Director-General of OLAF. European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) Ville Itälä is the Director-General of the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) since August 2018. Eu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kari Häkämies
Kari Häkämies (born 1956) is a Finnish lawyer and politician being a member of the National Coalition Party. He served as the justice minister and interior minister and was elected to the Finnish Parliament. He is also the author of several political thriller novels first of which was published in 2010. Biography Häkämies was born in Karhula in 1956. He received a degree in law from University of Helsinki in 1982. Häkämies works as a lawyer. He is part of the National Coalition Party. He served as the justice minister between 2 February 1996 and 12 March 1998 in the first cabinet of Paavo Lipponen. Häkämies was elected as mayor of Kuopio in 1998 and held the post until 2001. He was appointed minister of interior to the second cabinet of Lipponen on 15 April 1999. Häkämies resigned from the office on 30 August 2000 and was replaced by Ville Itälä in the post on 1 September. Häkämies was first elected to the Finnish Parliament on 2 March 1987. His parliamentary ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
