The latest speeches of key foreign policy actors are being added to the archive every now and then, approximately every other month. The key foreign policy actors in this context are the President of the Republic of Finland, Prime Minister, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Minister for European Affairs and Foreign Trade, Minister for International Development, Minister of Defence, Commander of the Finnish Defence Forces and Speaker of the Parliament of Finland.

Since joining the European Union in 1995, Finland has both adapted to the EU and its common foreign, security and defence policies as well as tried to influence these policies. This process has played a significant role in a number of transformations in the Finnish policy, e.g. the division of power among the primary national foreign policy decision-makers as well as the re-interpretations of non-alignment and the identity of the Finnish state.

The third Finnish Foreign Policy Paper takes a look at how the Finnish foreign and security policies have been Europeanized. The author, Teemu Palosaari, works as a post-doc researcher in the Tampere Peace Research Institute at the University of Tampere.

To view and download the publication, please visit http://www.fiia.fi/fi/publication/388/.

For more information, please contact the author directly:

teemu.palosaari@uta.fi 
Tel. +358 40 190 9773


The Finnish Institute of International Affairs is an independent research institute that produces high-level research to support political decision-making and public debate both nationally and internationally. The Institute undertakes quality control in editing publications but the responsibility for the views expressed ultimately rests with the authors.

Mr. Pertti Paasio was the Finnish Minister for Foreign Affairs in 1989-1991 in Holkeri's cabinet. Now his speeches from 1990-91 have been added to the archive. There were 64 speeches all together and 24 of them in English (2 in Swedish, rest in Finnish). There were enormous things going on during that time in the world, for example the German reunification and the Gulf War. The original documents belong to the archives of the Ministry for Foreing Affairs of Finland.

Also the latest speeches of key foreign policy actors have been added to the archive.

Elisabeth Rehn was the Finnish Minister of Defence in Holkeri's cabinet in 1990-1991 and in Aho's cabinet in
1991-1994. Her speeches of those periods of time are now available in the archive. The original documents belong to the 64th and 65th Governments' archives (at the moment in the Prime Minister's Office).

Jan-Erik Enestam was the Finnish Minister of Defence in Aho's cabinet in 1995 and in Lipponen's second cabinet in 1999-2003. Enestam's speeches are now available in the archive. The original documents belong to the 65th and 67th Governments' archives (at the moment in the Prime Minister's Office).