The Arctic Council has met at Rovaniemi and among the reprentatives US Secretatary of State, Mike Pompeo and Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov

Finnish current affairs 8.5.19 by Timo Uotila

ROVANIEMI, FINLAND MAY 7, the 11th Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting. Source: TASS

The new Finnish parliament will have 93 female and 107 male representatives, the female parliamentarians represent  46.5%  which is likely to be a record for EU countries, the closest other country is Sweden with 46.1% female representation. The EU directive regarding Sulfur emissions of ships has turned int a bonanza far a Finnish family company that developed method for removing the sulfur in exhaust gases.  The demand for the device is increasing as sulfur emissions from ships are increasingly restricted all over the World