Finland

Alexander Stubb, Finland's president, offers a quietly compelling lesson on how resilience in geopolitics is less about rigid doctrines and more about pragmatic adjustment.
THINKING ALOUD

Pragmatism in an age of uncertainty

President Alexander Stubb says "resilience” is a part of Finnish DNA.

Can quality of life be a superpower? Ask Finland

TikTok, which has over 175 million users in Europe, plans to announce more data centres in the coming years.

TikTok plans to build 1b euro data centre in Finland

File photo of the C-Lion1 submarine telecommunications cable being laid to the bottom Baltic Sea from the military base island Santahamina in Helsinki, Finland. Germany and Finland said on Nov 18, 2024 they were "deeply concerned" that an undersea telecommunications cable linking the countries had been severed and opened a probe.

Two undersea cables in Baltic Sea cut, Germany and Finland fear sabotage

Eight-grader Inka Warro, 14, sits near her English language books at Pohjolanrinne middle school in Finland.

Books in, screens out; some Finnish pupils go back to paper after tech push

Finland’s Prime Minister Petteri Orpo said that the risk is that such properties “could be used for some acts of damage or possibly as a bridgehead in connection with some larger operation.”

Finland to ban Russians from buying property

Petteri Orpo, Finland's prime minister, says: “We see it as a potential security threat that we have Russian and other foreign property owners, land owners in the vicinity of critical infrastructure. Common sense dictates that if we observe a genuine risk to national security, then we ought to be able to act.”

Russian real estate in Finland pose security risk, PM warns

There is still renewable capacity available for data centres such as Google’s, which acquires wind power in Finland under long term contracts.

Google invests one billion euros in Finnish data centre to drive AI growth

Finnish capital Helsinki on Jan 3, 2024. Jennifer De Paola, a happiness researcher at the University of Helsinki, said that Finns’ close connection to nature and healthy work-life balance were key contributors to their life satisfaction.

Finland is world’s happiest country for seventh year: study