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3 unusual facts about Jyrki Katainen


Jyrki Katainen

Katainen has criticized ideologization of energy sources and has called for a smart green policy that is a mix of many energy sources.

For example, he highlighted Google’s investment of about 800 million Euros in Hamina, Russian data center Yandex’s investment in Mäntsälä and Microsoft’s plans for investing about 250 million in Finland.

Portuguese legislative election, 2011

Facing an election of his own, Finnish Finance Minister Jyrki Katainen said that Portugal's deficit-reduction steps must be even stronger than what was proposed in parliament prior to the election call.


Ilkka Kanerva

The Hymy magazine published on April 1, 2008 printed several of the messages, and on the same morning party leader Jyrki Katainen stated that Kanerva can not continue in his position.

Next Finnish parliamentary election

The incumbent government is formed by a six party coalition, composed of the National Coalition Party, Social Democratic Party, Left Alliance, Green League, Swedish People's Party and the Christian Democrats as well as the MP for Åland.


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