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29.3.2023 | Carbon dioxide capture, use and storage technologies offer significant opportunities for Finland when it comes to both achieving the carbon neutrality target and creating new business. However, stronger national guidance, a clearer regulatory environment and measures to ensure sustainability are needed for the deployment of solutions. This is according to a new report drawn up for the Government...

2.6.2022 | A new study argues that Russia has geared its scientific and technological knowhow towards the unfolding great power competition. During the last decade Russia has sought to restore its scientific and technological prowess through various new strategies, programs and plans in order to regain its sovereign status as a great power.

26.4.2023 | In future, the state will need to play a more active role in steering the economy. According to a study published on 26 April, short-term shocks, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, have required the active involvement of states to ensure the sustainability of their economies and societies.

28.2.2023 | According to a study published on 28 February, intensifying great power competition increasingly complicates the ability to respond to global challenges through multilateral cooperation. Finland can respond to this transformation by strengthening the EU’s foreign policy capacities and by examining the potential of informal avenues of cooperation as well as partnerships in the context of the Global South.

30.6.2026 | Finlands kroniska offentliga underskott och växande skuld gör det nödvändigt att stabilisera de offentliga finanserna. Enligt en färsk undersökning bromsar anpassningen av utgifterna den ekonomiska tillväxten i Finland, men i betydligt mindre utsträckning än skattehöjningar. Det finns dock betydande skillnader mellan olika utgifts- och inkomstslag.

13.3.2023 | As many as 41% of Finnish companies have experienced trade barriers in their international operations in recent years. Most of the examined trade barriers between 2019 and 2022 occurred in countries outside the EU, especially in Russia, the United States and China. However, according to a study conducted by ETLA Economic Research for the Finnish Government, companies also encountered trade barriers in the EU.

12.12.2018 | Key changes in the Sino-Russian and US-Russian relationships can have significant consequences for the global balance of power and the international order at large. A report published today shows how vulnerable the recently deepened Sino-Russian relationship is as it represents a joint reaction towards the US hegemony rather than a deep strategic alliance.

3.2.2022 | The global economic system has entered a new era of geoeconomic rivarly. Particularly the United States and China are using economic instruments to advance strategic agendas, which poses a difficult challenge to the European Union.

11.5.2020 | Rapid technological development and the need to find solutions to challenges in society create a need for new regulatory approaches. Many countries have introduced innovation-friendly regulation practices, and regulation has become an increasingly important instrument for innovation policy. A report published on 11 May examines the current state of innovation-friendly regulation in Finland, highlig...

31.1.2018 | The report published today, 31 January, investigates the evolution of US global engagement and the longer-term trends and more immediate dynamics that affect the global role of the United States.

11.12.2018 | Questions concerning security policy have become more important to EU citizens, according to a study published by the Finnish Institute of International Affairs today. The report, released on 11 December, explored citizens’ views on the EU as a security community.

3.4.2018 | A group of Finnish researchers has analysed the EU budget's new sources of income. According to the group, the mobility of tax bases, as well as the environmental impacts of production and consumption speak in favour of the harmonisation of these tax bases at the EU level. Harmonisation would allow a reform in the financing of the EU, so that it is based on new own resources collected directly from the Member State's tax bases.

4.10.2019 | A third of municipal decision-makers and almost half of the Members of Finnish Parliament or their assistants have been subjected to hate speech due to their official duties or positions of trust. In addition, about a third of the decision-makers consider that hate speech in public debate has increased in recent years. These are the results of a recent study.

6.10.2016 | According to a recent survey, Finland lags behind other countries in developing an operating environment favourable for start-up companies. One solution proposed by the authors of the report Ramboll Management Consulting Oy, Etlatieto Oy, 4Front Oy, Urban Mill and The Evidence Network Ltd is the adoption of a cross-administrative start-up strategy.

23.4.2024 | Åren 2019–2020 utarbetades det en gemensam strategi för hela den offentliga förvaltningen. Enligt strategin ska Finland i framtiden ha världens bästa offentliga förvaltning. Strategins målsättningar och konsekvenser och processen med att utarbeta och genomföra strategin presenteras i en färsk utvärderingsrapport.

4.4.2023 | I slutrapporten om forskningsprojektet för familjers mångfald i lagstiftningen som genomfördes som en del av statsrådets utrednings- och forskningsverksamhet föreslås ändringar i den finländska familjelagstiftningen, ärvdabalken och den sociala tryggheten. I en undersökning som publicerades den 5 april har lagstiftningens strukturer setts över med tanke på familjers mångfald.

4.5.2020 | I publikationsserien för statsrådets utrednings- och forskningsverksamhet publiceras den 4 maj en utredning om särdragen hos Rysslands strategiska kommunikation – Govorit Moskva, Moskva talar. Syftet med utredningen är att öka förståelsen för Rysslands strategiska kommunikation, bakgrunden till den och fenomenen i anslutning till den.

19.3.2019 | Finland har föresatt sig att nå de 17 målen för hållbar utveckling (Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals) senast 2030. I en hållbarhetsjämförelse mellan FN:s medlemsländer från 2018 placerade sig Finland på tredje plats, och landet har ett starkt rykte som en global vägvisare när det gäller att främja hållbar utveckling. Mycket återstår dock att göra innan målen för Agenda 2030 har uppnåtts.

Global energy transitions and Russia’s energy influence in Finland This study argues that in a condition of a rapid energy transition Russia’s possibility to use energy trade as leverage diminishes. Therefore, a slow transition to a renewables-dom...

Global energy sector transitions will have an impact on geopolitics Major energy trends indicate that a rapid energy transition may shift geopolitical balance until 2040 Energy has always been an essential part of geopolitics. Transitions in energ...