Per aspera ad astra
At the start of November the biggest ship in Lithuanian fleet - LNG terminal "Independence" - should arrive to the Klaipėda port. This ship should completely change the energy supply situation in the Baltic region. EUObserver few days ago published a paper presenting the study done by German special ...
Bulgaria's Georgieva to Be Questioned by 3 EP Committees
Three committees at the European Parliament are to take part in the interrogation of Kristalina Georgieva in end-September. Georgieva and all other commissioner candidates are to be heard at the sessions scheduled between September 29 and October 7 at the European Parliament. The Committees to quest ...
Book Review: As Red as Blood, by Salla Simukka
Do not go into As Red as Blood thinking it's a Snow White retelling. There's very little to connect this book to the fairy tale. However, it is an interesting book. Lumikki, a teenager in Finland, attends a prestigious school and lives by herself in a studio apartment, having left her parents. She w ...
Labour costs up in Finland and most of the EU
Statistics from the second April-June 2014 quarter show a rise in the price of labour in Finland, up 2.9 percent from the corresponding quarter in 2013. This rise mirrored increases in virtually every other European Union country, show new Eurostat numbers ...
More austerity, reforms ahead for Finland, PM Stubb says
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finland's weak economy mean its government may have to cut spending further over the next few years to stop national debt levels exceeding EU limits, Prime Minister Alexander Stubb told Reuters. The small Nordic economy, whose strong ...
