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Finland's prime minister says he will not seek re-election as head of the Center Party in 2010, citing health reasons.

Risto Uimonen , 62, a veteran journalist who has written a book about the power of the media, believes that newspapers and other traditional media outlets will survive for at least the next 15 years, even though their profitability is being eroded by the splintering of target groups, free distribution newspapers, and the Internet.

Finnish weekly Seura on Thursday quoted a Taloustutkimus poll as indicating that Matti Vanhanen was the country's least trustworthy politician, with some 21 per cent of the respondents naming the prime minister and Centre party leader.

The crisis within the Council for Mass Media in Finland , the professional watchdog for journalistic ethics, escalated on Friday, when a second member, Pekka Iivanainen , announced his resignation.

The Council for Mass Media in Finland , Finland's watchdog organisation for journalistic ethics, has exonerated the Finnish Broadcasting Company over a story in a current affairs programme on YLE TV 2. The programme, aired in September, alleged that Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen had been given free construction materials for his house in Nurmijarvi ...

European Union officials were reluctant Thursday to promise help to debt-saddled Greece , saying it was up to Athens to put its economy back on track.

The question of helping poor nations tackle climate change, and deal with its consequences, is a key issue in Copenhagen and Europe prides itself ontaking the lead in the battle against global warming.

The support enjoyed by the three largest parties, the Centre Party, the National Coalition Party, and the Social Democratic Party, has stabilised, according to a poll commissioned by and conducted by Suomen Gallup.

Jacob Soderman, a Finnish Social Democrat MP, said Saturday his party should walk out of a committee tasked with mulling changes in the constitution.

Macedonian PM Nikola Gruevski Thursday will ask for Finnish support in determination of a date for start of EU accession negotiations at EU Summit on Dec.

Prime Minister and Centre Party leader Matti Vanhanen took shots at political rivals both inside and outside his party, and to opponents on the left and right on Saturday.

Minister of Defence Jyri Hakamies aimed some rather harsh criticism toward President Tarja Halonen on Thursday, accusing her of keeping him in the dark about a request from NATO for more Finnish crisis management forces to Afghanistan.

While supporting Macedonia to get a date for start of membership talks at the EU summit on Dec.

If the two are not arretsed by that time, he says will resign, he says. Call for Pressure for Rape Victims' Rights Amnesty International has called on the EU to pressure the government of Bosnia in Herzegovina to ensure justice for rape victims, including compensation.

The Finnish TV channels and largest daily newspapers tend to give little publicity to female ministers.

Matti Vanhanen , the Finnish prime minister, said Tuesday that the prime minister would represent Finland at EU summits.Citing the constitution, Mr Vanhanen added the line applied to summits with a single seat for each member state.

Comment about "PM discusses illegal immigration in Helsinki" Phone Name Comment 0 Tuesday, 1st December 2009 - 19:07CET PM discusses illegal immigration in Helsinki Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi today had a 90-minute meeting in Helsinki with the Prime Minister of Finland, Matti Vanhanen on bilateral relations and illegal immigration.

President Tarja Halonen and Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen were not able to iron out all of their differences on Friday on the capacity in which the Finnish President would participate in summit meetings of the European Union.

Herman Van Rompuy, the newly named president of the European council, is to visit Finland on Wednesday, the Finnish government said in a statement Monday.

Less than half of the members of the Finnish Centre party's council interviewed by a number of newspapers said they backed Matti Vanhanen and Jarmo Korhonen, respectively party leader and secretary, to carry on at the helm after next summer's party conference.