| Formerly a semi-presidential republic, it's now a parliamentary republic according to David Arter, First Chair of Politics at Aberdeen University, who in his "Scandinavian Politics Today" Manchester University Press, revised 2008 , quotes Jaakko Nousiainen in "From semi-presidentialism to parliamentary government" in Scandinavian Political Studies 24 2 p95-109 as follows: "There are hardly any grounds for the epithet 'semi-presidential' | Sawyer and Sawyer: Medieval Scandinavia, page 67 |
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| It is 3rd when conscription is accounted | According to the Finnish Constitution, the President has no possibility to rule the government without the ministerial approval, and substantially has not the power to disband the parliament under its own desire |
| BirdLife International 2004 Birds in Europe: population estimates, trends and conservation status | University of Minnesota Press, 1993• " Arter's own conclusions are only slightly more nuanced: "The adoption of a new constitution on 1 March 2000 meant that Finland was no longer a case of semi-presidential government other than in the minimalist sense of a situation where a popularly elected fixed-term president exists alongside a prime minister and cabinet who are responsible to parliament Elgie 2004: 317 " |
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| , Statistics Finland in Finnish : Eurostat ranking is 6th | Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority FICORA |
| Finnish Institute of Marine Research | Professor Frank Horn of the Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law University of Lappland writing for Virtual Finland on |
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| Transport and communications ministry — Rail | "Retail growth best in Finland for five years", For updates: website |