Finland's EU policy

On 12 December, Finland’s Prime Minister Sanna Marin presented to the European Council an overview of the progress made in implementing the EU's Strategic Agenda during Finland’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union. The Finnish Presidency has been the first to integrate the priorities of the EU’s Strategic Agenda 2019–2024 into the work of the Council.

Prime Minister Sanna Marin will attend the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on 22–24 January. There, she will speak at high-level events and participate in panel discussions with other heads of state and government, representatives from civil society organisations and business leaders. Topics of the discussions will include climate change and the Arctic, equality and well-being, the economy, the future of Europe and the international order.

The Ministry of the Interior has set up a legislative project to implement the EU directive on access to financial information at national level. The directive contains rules to facilitate the use of information held in bank account registries by the authorities for the purpose of preventing, detecting, investigating or prosecuting certain offences.

On 10 January, Prime Minister Sanna Marin made her first working visit to Estonia. There, she met with her colleague, Prime Minister Jüri Ratas, and paid a courtesy visit to President Kersti Kaljulaid.