Finnish renewable wave energy company Wello is preparing to test its 500-kilowatt prototype in Scottish waters
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seaenergytag.comPosted Feb 29, 2012, 6:14 PM UTC
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As somebody from England, this is great news for Britain. We need more of you Finnish over here!
lol, what's funny is, is that Greece keeps needing to be bailed out, Spain and Italy look like they'll be next.. and Finland, one of the smaller populated countries in the EU is actually innovating and working in our waters.
Great country.
Fixed that. Our parliament approved the second batch of money yesterday. The votes were 111 for, 62 against, 16 not present. The entire opposition voted against. Finland's share of the 130 billion euro loan to Greece is about 2.3 billion, with total liabilities at this point standing at over 6 billion in the worst case scenario of absolutely everything going tits up in Greece.
Finland itself is accumulating public debt at an alarming rate. The current cabinet coalition agreed to cut 2.5 billion euro in expenses and to increase tax revenue by another 2.5 billion per year when they started in June. The budget negotiations are about to start. We'll see if the coalition, the so-called 6-pack (six parties, no less), is still standing after those.
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Celebrity culture is definitely alive and well in Finland and we do have our tabloids that are in themselves similar to the ones in the UK. I guess the difference is that the Finnish-speaking population is small, so the singers, actors, reality tv celebrities etc. don't make that much money and neither do the media outlets, so the whole thing has lower stakes than in the UK or the US. You still get people doing kiss and tell for money, selling the rights to their weddings or vacations etc.
People definitely do talk about the euro crisis, and it's not uncommon to hear people complain about the nonsense celebrity news being on the front page when there is an actual crisis going on. The populist True Finns party pulled the largest win in parliamentary elections in the history of the country in April 2011, running primarily on a program of opposing the bailouts in particular and the EU in general. The party went from 5 seats to 39 (the parliament has 200 seats).
The conversations about the financial crisis are not exactly well informed, though. It would be nearly impossible for them to be that, anyway. The leader of the Social Democrats, Jutta Urpilainen, was also quite critical of the bailouts in the campaign last year. She became the Minister of Finance after the elections. For the bailout loans, she has negotiated collateral agreements that are so complex that you'd need to be an investment banking professional to understand them. Urpilainen herself is 36 years old and a schoolteacher by training. She's had a quite the 8 months in her post as minister.
I thought you were against immigration into the UK?
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You are a massive wind up merchant. I had fun reading your comments tbh.
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