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Financial Reform

S&P maintains Finland's credit rating

Bond Credit Rating

Moody's maintains Finland's solid debt rating, projects 3% growth next year

Constitutional Law Committee (Finland)

Constitutional Law Committee: EU stimulus fund plan unacceptable so far

Report: Finland needs stimulus then austerity to get through coronavirus crisis

S&P retains Finland's AA+ credit rating due to stable outlook

Government Ministers & Departments

Finance Ministry predicts economic slowdown, presses for more structural reforms

Think tank: Govt policy created 50k new jobs

Standard & Poor's

Finland retains Standard & Poor’s AA+ rating, stable outlook

Consumption (Economics)

Central bank: Finland has pulled out of recession

Finnish FinMin answers Commission

Budget Planning

European Commission: Finland's economy among worst in EU

Moody’s downgrades Finland’s credit rating, upgrades outlook to stable

International Unions and Organizations

Finland dodges EU commission rap over budget

Government Ministers & Departments

Finance Ministry publishes EU letter

First elections in newly consolidated regions may be postponed until 2021

Work Performance

European Commission predicts economy will recover slightly

PM Sipilä: Prepare for additional cuts in 2017, if competitiveness doesn’t improve

Nordea forecasts continued slump for Finnish economy

Aktia forecast: Feeble export growth next year

OECD warns Finland over education cuts

Svenska Handelsbanken

Banks paint gloomy forecasts; economy in fourth year of recession

Ministers pressed on broken election promises

Public-Sector Finance

Coalition troika narrows down four billion in gov't, municipal cuts

Finland may ask for extra time for budget fix plans

Social Contract

Sipilä’s ‘social contract’ with labour reps comes up dry

Finnish Politicians

Stubb: Finland will make a comeback - and so will I

Bank economists forecast return to fragile growth this year

Centre chair worried failed reform will affect Finland’s credit rating; PM calls for cool heads

Government agrees to scrap childcare cuts

Health Care Services

Parliament reconvenes to consider welter of legislation

Consumption (Economics)

Finns Party, SDP say poor can’t take more austerity

Sauli Niinistö

President emphasises western outlook in New Year speech

PM: “We have lived for six years beyond our means and the national debt has doubled”

Public Consuming

Nordea sees zero-growth decade, urges tax cuts

National Audit Office

Gov’t auditors: Employment office job cuts saved money -- but unemployment grew

Opposition parties dismiss, boycott PM Stubb’s economic meeting

Greens’ Niinistö: "We should not submit to Russia's divide and rule politics"

Restructuring and Recapitalization

Small town officer dresses down police top brass

Yle economists’ survey: "Finland not in recession"

SDP's popularity crumbling: Youth, women and well-educated the prime deserters