Li Andersson, a first-term Member of European Parliament for the Left Alliance, spoke at a festival she organised in Helsinki on 18 January 2025. Andersson stated to YLE last week that she is satisfied with the current division of representational duties between the president and prime minister, with the former attending Nato meeting and the latter EU meetings. (Roni Rekomaa – Lehtikuva)
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THE MAJORITY of Finland’s 15 Members of the European Parliament would prefer to see the president represent Finland at Nato, reveals a survey conducted by YLE.
Nine of the lawmakers argued that the president should attend meetings of the defence alliance, many of them citing his role as the supreme commander of the Finnish Defence Forces. Five contrastively viewed that the prime minister should attend the meetings, some pointing to his authority over re
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