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 Finland
The Republic of Finland is a Nordic country, bound by the Baltic Sea to the southwest, the Gulf of Finland to the southeast and the Gulf of Bothnia to the west, bordering Sweden, Norway and Russia (sea border with Estonia).
In 1808, Finland was conquered by the armies of Czar Alexander I and thereafter remained an autonomous Grand Duchy in personal union with the Russian Empire until the end of 1917.
Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Finland was free to follow her own course and joined the European Union in 1995.
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 Prime Minister - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In parliamentary systems like the Westminster system, the prime minister is the presiding head of the government while the position of head of state (the King, Queen or President), who may officially be the head of the executive, is largely ceremonial.
While the modern office of Prime Minister developed in the UK the first actual usage of the word Prime Minister or Premiere Minstre was used by Cardinal Richelieu, when, in 1624 he was named to head the royal council as prime minister of France.
The Prime Minister is formally the presiding minister of the Privy Council and the cabinet.
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 List of Baptist Confessions - tScholars.com (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Juho Kusti Paasikivi (November 27, 1870 – December 14, 1956) was President of Finland from 1946 to 1956.
During the Civil War in Finland Paasikivi was firmly on the side of the White government.
As Prime Minister May-November 1918 he strived for continued constitutional monarchy with Frederick Charles of Hesse (a German Prince) as king, intending to ensure Finland of German support against Bolshevist Russia.
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 Politics of Finland : Political parties in Finland
Formally appoints the prime minister and the rest of the cabinet (Council of State).
Ministers are not obliged to be members of the Eduskunta and need not be formally identified with any political party.
Finland's two other major parties are the Center Party (Keskusta), traditionally representing rural interests, and the Conservative National Coalition (Kokoomus), which draws its major support from the business community and urban professionals.
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 Finland at Caribbean Topfunwebsites   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
In 1808, Finland was conquered by the armies of Alexander I of Russia and thereafter remained an autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland in personal union with the Russian Empire until the end of 1917.
Today, Finland has Provinces of Finland ''(lääni, läänit)'' The province authority is part of the executive branch of the national government; a system that had not changed drastically since its creation in 1634 to the new division to "greater provinces" in 1997.
Finland's policy of neutrality was moderated further from "active neutrality" to "military non-alignment," with an emphasis on maintaining a competent independent defence.
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 MapUp.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
In 1809, Finland was conquered by the armies of Czar Alexander I and thereafter remained an autonomous grand duchy connected with the Russian Empire until the end of 1917.
Finland has a mixed presidential/parliamentary system with executive powers divided between the president, who has primary responsibility for national security and foreign affairs, and the prime minister, who has primary responsibility for all other areas.
Finland's 1995 accession to the European Union (EU) has blurred the line between foreign and domestic policy; the respective roles of the president and prime minister are evolving, and plans are under consideration to rewrite the constitution to clarify these and other issues.
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 Chapter 1
Before the Prime Minister is elected, the groups represented in the Parliament negotiate on the political programme and composition of the Government.
If a Minister is elected President of the Republic or the Speaker of Parliament, he or she shall be considered to have resigned the office of Minister as from the day of election.
When the Prime Minister is prevented from attending to his or her duties, the duties are taken over by the Minister designated as Deputy Prime Minister and, when the Deputy Prime Minister is prevented from attending to his other duties, by the most senior ranking Minister.
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 Woman Premier Ministers
She was Ambassador to USSR 1948-49, Minister of Labour 1949-56 and Minister of Foreign Affairs 1956-64, 1964-69 Secretary General and 1969-74 Leader of Labour.
An economist, she became Minister of Social Affairs 1990-91, Minister of Foreign Affairs 1993-95 and was Executive Director of the Washington Office of Haiti 1993.
Deputy to the Prime Minister and Minister of Culture of the centre-right-government 1997-99, Vice Chairperson of the Defence Committee of Stortinget 1999-2001 and Governor of Østfold since 2003.
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 List of Prime Ministers of Denmark (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
This is a list over the heads of government in Denmark, from the establishment of a constitutional monarchy in 1849 until present.
From 1918 until present, the head of government is known as the Prime Minister (''Statsminister'').
Prime Minister of Norway, Prime Minister of Sweden, Prime Minister of Finland
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 Social Democratic Party of Finland
The Civil War in Finland followed in 1918, and resulted in virtually all party leaders on all levels becoming either killed, imprisoned or refugees abroad.
With exception for a brief period in 1926, SDP was excluded from Cabinet participation from Oskari Tokoi[?]'s Senate's unsuccessful claim of Finland's independence in 1917 until Kyösti Kallio's precidency 1937.
During the first months of the Continuation War (1941-1944) the country, the parliament and the coalition Cabinet was divided on the question whether Finland's army should stop at the old border and thereby demonstratively refrain from any attempts of conquests.
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 Prime Minister of Finland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1918 the Finnish Senate was transformed into the Council of State (or cabinet) of Finland, and the position of Vice-Chairman of the Economic Division of the Senate was transformed into that of a Prime Minister.
Under the provisions of the new Constitution of Finland (enacted in 2000), the President nominates a Prime Minister after the parties in the Eduskunta (Parliament) have negotiated the distribution of seats in the new Council of State and the government's programme.
Before the new Constitution came into force, full formal powers to appoint the Prime Minister and the rest of the Council of State had been the privilege of the President, who was free to diverge from parliamentary principles, although ministers must enjoy the confidence of the Parliament.
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 Britain.tv Wikipedia - Kosovo
The Kosovo Assembly is responsible for electing a President and Prime Minister of Kosovo.
Ramush Haradinaj resigned the post of Prime Minister after he was indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in March 2005.
Serbian President Boris Tadić and Prime Minister Vojislav Koštunica and Kosovo President Fatmir Sejdiu and Prime Minister Agim Çeku attended and presented their respective platforms for Kosovo's future status.
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 Finland - Questionz.net , answers to all your questions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Currency Euro¹, Finnish euro coins In 1808, Finland was conquered by the Time zone UTC +2 armies of Czar Alexander I and National anthem Maamme (VŒrt land) thereafter remained an autonomous Grand Internet TLD.FI Duchy in personal union with the Russian Empire until the end of 1917.
Geography Finland is a country of thousands of lakes and islands; 187,888 lakes and 179,584 islands to be precise.
Demographics There are two official languages in Finland: Finnish, spoken by 93% of the population, and Swedish, mother tongue for 6% of the population.
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 Finland - Gurupedia
Baltic Sea to the southwest, the Gulf of Finland to the southeast and the Gulf of Bothnia to the west, and has land frontiers with Sweden, Norway and Russia and a maritime border with Estonia.
In 1808, Finland was conquered by the armies of
The climate in Southern Finland is a northern
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 Wikinfo | Finland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The Republic of Finland (Suomen Tasavalta in Finnish, Republiken Finland in Swedish) is a Nordic country, bound by the Baltic Sea to the southwest, the Gulf of Finland to the southeast and the Gulf of Bothnia to the west, bordering Sweden, Norway and Russia (sea border with Estonia).
Treaties signed in 1947 and 1948 with the Soviet Union included obligations and restraints on Finland vis-a-vis the Soviet Union as well as further territorial concessions by Finland (compared to the Moscow Peace Treaty of 1940).
Constitutionally, the 200-member, unicameral parliament, the Eduskunta (Finnish) or Riksdag (Swedish), is the supreme authority in Finland.
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 Prime Minister of Canada - Uncyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The Prime Minister of Canada is the absolute and total despot of Canada.
Due to a lack of term limits, some Prime Ministers have served exceptionally long terms, including the late William Lyon Mackenzie King (1867-present).
These Prime Minsters have long half-lives (300 years to ~20 billion years), continuing to serve even long after the source is long worn and depleted.
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 Country Informations and Maps (Finland)
FINLAND LINKS (aka FinnLinks) is a compilation of annotated and categorized, English language websites concerned with matters relating to Finns and Finland.
Ministry of Transportation and Communications: Finland will continue to be one of the international leaders in the transport and telecommunications fields with regard to quality, efficiency, and expertise.
The mission of the Prime Minister's Office is to ensure that decision-making by the President of the Republic and the Council of State proceeds smoothly, and to assist the Prime Minister by providing political, operational and administrative services.
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 Nieman Watchdog > Discussions > Because of Iraq, 2 prime ministers had to go
Finland, the northernmost country of the European Union, with 5.2 million people, was one of the places where people felt a deep sense of shock and sadness during and after September 11th, 2001.
In Finland most people speak English, most people are Christians and most movies shown on television are made in Hollywood.
First, the social democrat Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen lost the 2003 election as the opposition leader Anneli Jäätteenmäki used secretive documents to accuse Lipponen of compromising Finland’s neutrality by supporting the U.S.-led war against Iraq.
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 Prime minister - Uncyclopedia
The first Prime Minister of England was Pitt the 3.
In Mathematics, a prime minister is a minister which is the product of only two other ministers: itself and one.
While this remains an unknown, it is proven that Prime Ministers don't have a natural root.
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 Prime Minister of Kuwait
HH Sheikh Nasser was born in 1940 and received his primary and elementary education at Kuwait School followed by the General Certificate of Education in the United Kingdom as well as a Higher Diploma in French Language studies.
First as the Minister Extraordinary Plenipotentiary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and then as the Permanent Representative of the State of Kuwait to the European Office of the United Nations at Geneva, Switzerland.
On November 16, 2005, he was appointed by an Amiri Decree as the Minister for Al-Diwan Al- Amiri Affairs (Royal Court), a post he held prior to being appointed the Prime Minister.
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 ITALY : Encyclopedia Entry
Romano Prodi is the Presidente del Consiglio dei Ministri ("President of the Ministers Council"), the equivalent of Prime Minister of the Italian Government
The 1948 Constitution of Italy established a bicameral parliament (Parlamento), consisting of a Chamber of Deputies (Camera dei Deputati) and a Senate (Senato della Repubblica), a separate judiciary, and an executive branch composed of a Council of Ministers (cabinet) (Consiglio dei ministri), headed by the prime minister (Presidente del consiglio dei ministri).
According to GDP calculations, as measured by purchasing power parity (PPP), Italy is ranked as the 8th largest economy in the world in 2006, behind the United States, Japan, Germany, China, India, UK, and France, and the fourth largest in Europe.
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 List of Prime Ministers of Denmark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list over the heads of government in Denmark since 1848.
The office of Prime Minister is described on Prime Minister of Denmark.
List of Danish heads of government from the Prime Ministers Office
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Foreign Minister Yoo Chong-ha hoped in an early-end interview that Seoul and Pyongyang will eventually become the sole parties directly involved in finding solutions to Korean issues while the United States and China will take part only in the initial stages of the four-party talks.
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 The American Spectator   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Finland is sobering up the EU's upcoming gathering of finance ministers with a proposed hike in the continent's booze taxes.
Finland is also planning to tackle tough issues like the EU membership of Turkey and the possible addition of backwaters like Bulgaria and Romania, but it is introducing one enormous complication to the mix.
Finland has announced that it will be reporting on its progress in a language so nonstandard that only cadres of classicists can muddle through it.
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 Education World® - *History : By Region : Europe : Finland
Cartographers of Finland in the 17th Century Learn about the Sanson family and how it mapped Finland in the 17th century.
Churches and Religion in Finland Harri Heino authors this discussion of the role of churches and religious denominations in the country's history.
Finland before 1809 Research paper discusses the political and military developments in Finland's early history.
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