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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.
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Pragmatism in an age of uncertainty

Lessons from Finland’s president Alexander Stubb on adapting to an uncertain world and defending the values that matter

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

Can quality of life be a superpower? Ask Finland

Bank of Finland governor Olli Rehn calls on all of Europe to ‘get its act together’

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

TikTok has been trying to address concerns over whether the Chinese government could access the data of European citizens who use TikTok

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

TWO undersea fibre-optic communications cables in the Baltic Sea, including one linking Finland and Germany, were severed, raising suspicions of sabotage by bad actors, countries and companies involve...

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

Finnish parents and teachers have become increasingly concerned over the impact of screens on children

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

There are security concerns over purchases with links to Russia near critical infrastructure

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

Finland’s Prime Minister Petteri Orpo said that his nation is preparing steps to address the potential security risks from Russian property holding near critical infrastructure.

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

ALPHABET-owned Google will invest a further one billion euros (S$1.5 billion) into the expansion of its data centre campus in Finland to drive its artificial intelligence (AI) business growth in Europ...

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

FINLAND remained the world’s happiest country for a seventh straight year in an annual UN sponsored World Happiness Report published on Wednesday.