Podcast appearances and mentions of Alexander Stubb

Ykkösaamussa keskustellaan Israelin varhain aamulla Iraniin tekemistä iskuista. Iran on vannonut vastaavansa iskuihin voimakkaasti. Pelkona on täysimittainen sota kahden Lähi-idän vahvimman armeijan välillä. Yhdysvallat puolestaan korostaa, että se ei ollut iskuissa osallisena. Kysymme myös, mikä on viikonloppuna Tukholmassa kokoontuva Bilderberg-ryhmä. Tapaamiseen osallistuu myös tasavallan presidentti Alexander Stubb. Viikonloppuna puoluekokoukseen kokoontuvat RKP ja Perussuomalaiset, joiden tilanne on erityisen mielenkiintoinen mm. kannatuksen hupenemisen takia. Kahta kansallispuistoa puolestaan on viime aikoina piinannut kävijöiden keskuudessa ärhäkästi levinnyt vatsatauti. Miten näin on päässyt käymään? Juontajana Pirjo Auvinen.

Suoraa puhetta johtaa Maria Pettersson. Keskustelijoina ovat Mika Pantzar, Pekka Seppänen ja Maija Vilkkumaa. Pekka Seppänen haluaa kuulla kanssakeskustelijoiden ajatuksia siitä, mihin presidentin kannattaa lähteä mukaan ja mihin ei. Tasavallan presidentti Alexander Stubb suostui ensimmäisenä istuvana presidenttinä puolisoineen Helsingin Pride-viikon suojelijaksi. Tämä herätti närää muun muassa kansanedustaja Onni Rostilassa (ps), jonka mukaan presidentti osoittaa huonoa harkintaa. Onko sillä merkitystä, mitä presidentti suojelee ja mitä ei? Entä mihin suojelijoita tarvitaan? Maija Vilkkumaa herättelee keskustelua kilpailun tarpeellisuudesta. Elämme kilpailuyhteiskunnassa, jossa kaikki on mitattavissa: klikit mediassa, streamit musiikissa, tykkäykset somessa. Maijalle itselleen kilpailu ei toimi suoritusta parantavana voimana, vaan päinvastoin heikentää suorituskykyä ja vie iloa. Hän ei ole ajatustensa kanssa yksin, kilpailu voi olla yksi tekijä lisääntyneen työuupumuksen takana yhteiskunnassa. Miksi me silti jatkamme tiellä, jossa kilpailu tuntuu vain kiristyvän koko ajan? Mika Pantzar tuo pöytään rakkausaiheen, ei elollisiin vaan elottomiin kohdistuvan. Hollantilainen Eternally Yours -säätiö esitti aikoinaan kestävän kehityksen takaajaksi sitä, että rakastumme esineisiin. Jos ihmiset rakastuisivat esineisiin, he eivät hennoisi luopua niistä ja korvata niitä uudella. Pelastaisiko tämä maailman ja järkevöittäisi kulutusta? Pitääkö kestävämpää tuotetta halajavan maksaa siitä enemmän?

Palestiinan valtion tunnustaminen uhkaa ajaa Suomea hallituskriisiin. Kristillisdemokraatit eivät voi jatkaa hallituksessa, joka tunnustaisi Palestiinan valtion. Samoin valtiovarainministeri Riikka Purra on tehnyt selväksi, etteivät perussuomalaiset tue Palestiinan tunnustamista. Miksi Palestiinan tunnustaminen on Suomelle sisäpoliittisesti vaikea kysymys? Ovatko tasavallan presidentti Alexander Stubb ja pääministeri Petteri Orpo Palestiina-asiassa törmäyskurssilla? Miksi Espanja on tunnustanut Palestiinan, mutta ei Kosovoa? Miksi Taiwanin tunnustaa vain tusina pikkuvaltiota? Mikä on päivänpolitiikan sana? Suomen kielen dosentti Vesa Heikkinen ja Politiikkaradion toimittaja Tapio Pajunen analysoivat politiikan kielen ajankohtaisuuksia ja valitsevat päivänpolitiikan sanan. Voit ehdottaa päivänpolitiikan sanoja verkkolomakkeella, sähköpostitse, tai Bluesky:ssa ja X:ssä @tapiopajunen ja @tosentti. Puheet päreiksi -ohjelmaa esitetään Politiikkaradiossa perjantaisin.

Ykkösaamussa keskustellaan Turmpin Lähi-idän matkasta; mitä hän sillä tavoittelee ? Minkälainen kansanvälisen politiikan viikko on edessä - mitä voimme odottaa tältä viikolta Gazaan tai Venäjän hyökkäyssodan rauhansuunnitelmiin. Studiossa Hannu Juusola ja Charley Salonius-Pasternak. Lähetyksessä kuullaan myös aamun tiedot Keniasta, missä tasavallan presidentti Alexander Stubb on virallisella valtiovierailulla. Kello 8.36. puhutaan Suomen sähkönkulutuksesta; kulutus kasvaa - riittääkö sähköä kuluttajille, vihreään siirtymään ja datakeskuksille ? Lähetyksen päätteksi yhteys Sveitsin Baseliin, euroviisujen karsinnassa esiintyy tänään Ruotsia edustava KAJ.

Eighty years since Nazi Germany surrendered, Europe marks VE Day as the once unbreakable transatlantic bond faces new pressure under the "America First" president of Donald Trump. Christiane speaks with Finland's President, Alexander Stubb, about his relationship with Trump, the future of NATO and Ukraine, and the Russia-China anti-Western alliance. Them, with the fate of both the people of Gaza and the Israeli hostages still on the line, Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister, Sharren Haskel, talks to Christiane about the humanitarian crisis and the latest military escalation. Marking 25 years of Vladimir Putin's rule over Russia, Fred Pleitgen brings us a rare and highly stage-managed look at the Russian president's life at the Kremlin. Christiane also speaks with award-winning and best-selling novelist Isabelle Allende about her new book, "My Name is Emila Del Valle." From her archives, in honor of the 80th anniversary of VE Day, Christiane's conversation with 102-year-old WW2 veteran Jake Larson at the American Cemetary in Normandy. Papa Jake, as he is known, has become an unlikely TikTok star with over one million followers.  And finally, as country music celebrated its biggest night of the year at the 60th Academy of Country Music Awards this week, Christiane revisited her conversation with industry titan and seven-time nominee Rosanne Cash, daughter of the legendary Johnny Cash.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As Europe celebrates the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, Ukraine is still under brutal Russian attack. And while Donald Trump vowed to end the war in 24 hours, three months into his second term the negotiations have stalled. Christiane speaks with a man who might have an insight into Trump's tactics: Finnish president Alexander Stubb. He spent hours golfing with Trump in March and was seated next to him at Pope Francis' recent funeral.    Also on today's show: journalist Christo Grozev and "Antidote" Producer-Director James Jones; NYT Technology Reporter David Yaffe-Bellany    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Golfasiko Suomi itsensä Trumpin suosioon seitsemässä tunnissa? Millainen on geopoliittinen asemamme, jos Trump ja Putin pääsevät sopimukseen Ukrainan kohtalosta? Tasavallan presidentti Alexander Stubb ilmoitti tällä viikolla, että Suomen on valmistauduttava suhteiden avaamiseen Venäjään. Mitä tämä käytännössä tarkoittaa? Mitä meidän pitäisi muistaa ulkopolitiikkamme historiasta? Vieraana on entinen Moskovan suurlähettiläs, Venäjä-asiantuntija René Nyberg.

President Alexander Stubb mötte USA:s president Donald Trump - på golfbanan nära Trumps residens Mar-a-Lago i Florida. Under golfrundan ska presidenterna också ha diskuterat Europas säkerhet och Ukrainakriget. Vilka slutsatser ska man dra av besöket och hur skiljer sig diplomatin idag från tidigare decennier? I Slaget deltar veterandiplomaterna, minister Jaakko Iloniemi och Finlands f d Washington-ambassadör Jukka Valtasaari. Bettina Sågbom leder ordet. E-post: slaget@yle.fi

One of Ukraine's staunchest advocates in the EU and in NATO is Finland, which itself joined the Atlantic Alliance two years ago after decades of neutrality. We caught up with Finland's President Alexander Stubb as he attended talks of the "coalition of the willing" hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris. Stubb gives us his perspective on European security and defence, NATO and of course the increasingly fractious relationship between the EU and the Trump administration, as the latter announces fresh tariffs on European imports.

Cette semaine, nous recevons Alexander Stubb, président de la République de Finlande. Fervent soutien à l'Ukraine, il commente le renforcement de la défense européenne et la menace russe qui pèse tout particulièrement sur son pays. 

Om lyckan som består. I måndagskvällens Karlavagnen hör vi lyssnarnas berättelser om en stund de alltid minns med värme och lycka. Lyssna här! Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play. Lyckan kommer, lyckan går, men Finland har haft världens lyckligaste folk i 8 år. Ungefär så skrev Finlands president Alexander Stubb på sina sociala medier när nyheten om att finländarna för åttonde året i rad utsetts till världens lyckligaste folk publicerades.Vilken lycka består?Men vilken lycka består? Finns det något ögonblick som är stunden du tänker på som ett av dina lyckligaste, eller viktigaste ögonblick. En stund där du varit fullt närvarande i stunden och bara haft det sådär alldeles underbart.Livslycka, babylycka, kärlekslycka, studentlycka och jobblycka. Många är de olika sorters lyckotillstånden, men vilken tänker du på? Hör av dig och berätta!Om lycka med Susanna AlakoskiRing eller mejla oss, på karlavagnen@sverigesradio.se eller skriv till oss på Facebook och Instagram. Telefonslussen öppnar kl. 21. Programmet startar ca 21:40.

The first impression of the Trump administration's effort to negotiate a peace between Ukraine and Russia was an abysmal failure. This makes getting the next steps, even more important. The Finnish President, Alexander Stubb, in an interview with the Atlantic Council's Frederick Kempe at the Munich Security Conference, details three key points to advancing peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia. This episode discusses each of these three key points.

C dans l'air du 4 mars 2025 - Ukraine : Trump suspend l'aide militaireForcer la paix en Ukraine et accentuer la guerre commerciale. Après la rencontre de vendredi à la Maison-Blanche, qui a tourné en affrontement verbal, devant les caméras du monde entier, entre Volodymyr Zelensky, Donald Trump et JD Vance, les États-Unis ont décidé de resserrer encore l'étau sur le dirigeant ukrainien, en décidant cette nuit de la suspension de l'aide militaire cruciale à Kiev. "Ce gars ne veut pas de paix tant qu'il a le soutien des États-Unis", a écrit hier Donald Trump sur son réseau social. Le président américain a ordonné une "pause" dans les livraisons d'armes et de munitions, accordées par son prédécesseur aux Ukrainiens en guerre contre la Russie.Le vice-président américain JD Vance a, de son côté, estimé sur Fox News que le président ukrainien avait "montré un refus clair de s'engager dans le processus de paix". "Il n'y était pas encore, et je pense, franchement, qu'il n'y est toujours pas, mais je pense que nous finirons par y arriver. Il le faut", a-t-il dit.Avec ce gel de l'aide militaire, l'administration Trump entend contraindre le dirigeant ukrainien à accepter un cessez-le-feu sans conditions. Obtenir des garanties de sécurité américaines est "d'une importance existentielle" pour Kiev, mais aussi pour l'Union européenne, a martelé ce mardi le Premier ministre ukrainien Denys Chmygal, lors d'une conférence de presse. L'Ukraine s'est dit "déterminée à poursuivre sa coopération" avec Washington et prête à signer "à tout moment" l'accord-cadre sur l'exploitation de ses ressources naturelles par les États-Unis, mais elle ne fera pas de concessions territoriales. Kiev a également indiqué "discuter" avec les Européens de la possibilité de remplacer l'aide militaire américaine.L'UE, par la voix de la présidente de la Commission européenne Ursula von der Leyen, a dans la matinée dévoilé un plan pour "réarmer l'Europe" qui doit lui permettre de mobiliser près de 800 milliards d'euros pour sa défense, et fournir une aide immédiate à l'Ukraine, alors que la décision américaine se fait déjà ressentir dans le principal centre logistique en Pologne. La situation est "très grave" a déclaré le porte-parole du ministère polonais des Affaires étrangères, soulignant que cette décision américaine "d'une grande importance politique" a été prise "sans aucune information ni consultation" des alliés de l'OTAN. Dans une interview à CNN, le président finlandais Alexander Stubb a proposé de son côté que l'Ukraine devienne automatiquement membre de l'OTAN si la Russie venait à rompre un cessez-le-feu, se faisant l'écho d'une suggestion émise par un sénateur américain proche de Donald Trump. Mais le président américain, lui, exclut l'idée d'une adhésion de l'Ukraine à l'OTAN - ligne rouge pour Moscou - et le vice-président américain s'en est encore pris aux Européens, les appelant à être "réalistes", plaidant le fait que "cette guerre ne peut pas durer indéfiniment." Déjà à la mi-février, l'ex-sénateur de l'Ohio avait stupéfié les responsables européens en se lançant dans une violente attaque contre les démocraties européennes et en les appelant à rompre le "cordon sanitaire" avec l'extrême droite. L'altercation avec le président ukrainien, Volodymyr Zelensky, le 28 février dans le Bureau ovale, a illustré le poids prédominant qu'il occupe désormais à la Maison-Blanche et son souhait de radicaliser la politique étrangère américaine.Parallèlement, le président américain a décidé d'intensifier sa guerre commerciale. Depuis ce matin, les produits canadiens et mexicains qui entrent sur le sol américain sont taxés à 25 %, et les droits de douane sur les produits chinois sont passés à 20 %. En réponse, le Canada et la Chine ont décidé d'imposer des taxes sur les produits américains.Les experts :- Bruno TERTRAIS - Directeur adjoint de la FRS, auteur de La guerre des mondes- Nicole BACHARAN - Historienne et politologue, spécialiste des États-Unis, éditorialiste - Ouest France - Laure MANDEVILLE - Grand reporter - Le Figaro, auteure de "Qui est vraiment Donald Trump ?"- Antoine VITKINE - Journaliste, réalisateur du documentaire "Opération Trump : les espions russes à la conquête de l'Amérique"- Anastasia FOMITCHOVA (en duplex de Kiev) - Docteur en sciences politiques rattachée à la chaire d'études ukrainienne de l'université d'Ottawa.

Alexander Stubb blir viral, alla världsledare citerar Donald Tusk och Kaja Kallas får beröm för att hon säger som det är. Men Ulf Kristersson fortsätter att ligga lågt och resa runt på möten. Oppositionen knyter näven i fickan och Magdalena Andersson predikar enighet. Inrikespolitiken förlamas när hela världen håller andan inför Donald Trumps nästa utspel. Henrik Torehammar tycker vi borde stänga av dokusåpan. Maggie Strömberg ser en kultur av riskminimering på UD.

Finnish President Alexander Stubb sits down with Ravi Agrawal on the sidelines of the annual Munich Security Conference to discuss European security in Trump 2.0. Suggested reading (FP links are paywall-free): Transcript: Finland's President: Trump's Strategy ‘Is a Bit of a Seesaw' Transcript: The Speech That Stunned Europe C. Raja Mohan: India Sees Opportunities as Trump Jettisons the Western Order James Crabtree: Trump Could Make China Great Again Kishore Mahbubani: It's Time for Europe to Do the Unthinkable Kristi Raik: Europe's 4 Different Ways of Handling Trump Bojan Pancevski and Alexander Ward: Vance Wields Threat of Sanctions, Military Action to Push Putin Into Ukraine Deal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tällä päivämäärällä vietetään hätäkeskuspäivää, höyrylaiva patentoitiin, ja Alexander Stubb valittiin presidentiksi.

Koti on siellä, missä sydän on! Esko paljastaa, mitä presidentti Alexander Stubb kertoi hänelle viikonloppuna. Suvi sanoo tietylle paikalle heipat. Jos kerran tekee oharit, ne muistetaan kyllä. On asia, johon Esko ei kelpaa. Kaverin puolesta kyselen -osiossa yliajattelu on jo överitasoa. Lisäksi oli sisäsuunnistusta Markun yksiössä ja ohjeiden lukua omalla kielellä.

On the GZERO World Podcast, Finnish President Alexander Stubb joins Ian Bremmer in Davos, Switzerland, where world leaders, business executives, and diplomats gathered for the annual World Economic Forum. Just days after President Trump was sworn in for a second term, the mood in Davos was that of cold pragmatism. As Trump made clear in his speech to the Forum, Europe can no longer rely on the kind of copacetic relationship with the United States it had enjoyed since World War II or even during his first term.So, what does that mean for Europe—and the war in Ukraine? Finland's President Alexander Stubb and Ian Bremmer discuss.Host: Ian BremmerGuest: Alexander Stubb  Subscribe to the GZERO World with Ian Bremmer Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your preferred podcast platform, to receive new episodes as soon as they're published.

On the GZERO World Podcast, Finnish President Alexander Stubb joins Ian Bremmer in Davos, Switzerland, where world leaders, business executives, and diplomats gathered for the annual World Economic Forum. Just days after President Trump was sworn in for a second term, the mood in Davos was that of cold pragmatism. As Trump made clear in his speech to the Forum, Europe can no longer rely on the kind of copacetic relationship with the United States it had enjoyed since World War II or even during his first term.So, what does that mean for Europe—and the war in Ukraine? Finland's President Alexander Stubb and Ian Bremmer discuss.Host: Ian BremmerGuest: Alexander Stubb  Subscribe to the GZERO World with Ian Bremmer Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your preferred podcast platform, to receive new episodes as soon as they're published.

Suoraa puhetta johtaa Maria Pettersson. Keskustelijoina ovat Juha Itkonen, Anu Koivunen ja Kaarina Hazard. Juha Itkonen on tutkinut ensimmäistä kertaa julkistettua Sukupolvibarometria. Hän nostaa siitä tarkasteluun sukupolvien välisen hoivavastuun. Barometrissa oli seuraava väite: heikon julkisen talouden vuoksi aikuisten lasten pitäisi ottaa enemmän hoivavastuuta ikääntyneistä vanhemmistaan. Väitteen kohdalla kansakunta jakaantuu siististi kahtia, 45% oli täysin tai jokseenkin samaa mieltä ja 46% eri mieltä. Yle uutisoi aiheesta otsikolla "Lähes puolet suomalaisista työntäisi aikuisille lapsille enemmän hoivavastuuta ikääntyneistä". Juha huomioi, että tämä oli ensimmäinen kerta kun kyseinen tutkimus tehtiin ja meillä ei ole dataa, miten kyseiseen väitteeseen olisi aikaisemmin vastattu. Raatilaisille hän heittää kysymyksen, miten te tulkitsette tutkimustulosta, yllättääkö se teitä? Näettekö yhteiskunnallisessa ilmapiirissä suuren muutoksen suuntaan, hyvivointivaltion lupaus rikki ja vanhukset lastensa hoidettaviksi? Anu Koivunen kertoo hieman naurahtaen oman aiheensa. Se on radioon hyvin sopiva – valokuvan analysointi. Tasavallan presidentti Alexander Stubb jakoi some-tileillään sunnuntai-iltana kuvan, jossa hänen lisäkseen olivat Ruotsin pääministeri Ulf Kristerssonin sekä Norjan pääministeri Jonas Gahr Støre illastamassa Tanskan pääministeri Mette Frederiksenin kotona. Kuvassa vieraat ovat ruokapöydän äärellä, ruoka on konstailematonta, eikä kattauskaan ole ihan viimeisen päälle. Tätä kuvaa on jaettu somessa paljon ja se on saanut runsaasti kommentteja. Anu tiedustelee, minkälaisia ajatuksia kuva raatilaisissa herättää? Kaarina Hazardin aihe liittyy läheisesti Yhdysvaltojen presidentinvaaleihin ja Donald Trumpin ensi päiviin presidenttinä. - Olemme saaneet seurata Yhdysvaltojen tech-jätkien touhuja ja siihen nivoutunutta "äijäuhoilua", joka minun silmissäni näyttää todella lapselliselta ja poikamaiselta. Muistan vielä ajan, jolloin vasemmistossa oli vihaisia miehiä. Miksi ihmeessä ne nykyään ovat äärioikeistossa? Ehkä tämä kuitenkaan ei ole puoluekysymys eikä liity puoluepolitiikkaan ollenkaan, vaan lapsellinen miehekkyys on syrjäyttänyt aikuisen miehekkyyden. Miten kiusaava, uhoava ja pullisteleva keskenkasvuinen poika on tullut meidän mieheksemme ja miten asiantilan voisi muuttaa?

As Donald Trump begins his second term as US president, and Russia presses forward in Ukraine, Gideon Rachman speaks to Finland's President Alexander Stubb about Europe's place in the world. They also discuss the risk of strategic irrelevance in Europe, the rise of the far right, Finland's position in Nato – and whether other European countries need to be a bit more like Finland. Clip: ReutersFollow Gideon on X @gideonrachman or Bluesky @gideonrachman.bsky.social.Gideon Rachman is the chief foreign affairs commentator at the Financial Times. You can find his column here. More on this topic:‘Will President Trump even notice Europe?' asks Volodymyr Zelenskyy Davos agenda turns to dealmaking as Trump takes office Trump and the contest between two visions of democracySubscribe to The Rachman Review wherever you get your podcasts - please listen, rate and subscribe.Presented by Gideon Rachman. Produced by Lulu Smyth, Manuela Saragosa and Fiona Symon. Sound design is by Breen TurnerRead a transcript of this episode on FT.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After Donald Trump's stunning comeback, Christiane Amanpour explores the global implications of Trump's second term in the White House. She speaks with former U.S. Ambassador Gordon Sondland on Trump's likely approach to governing without constraint, favoring mass deportations and tariffs. Finland's President Alexander Stubb joins Christiane to discuss how Europe is viewing what Trump's election will mean for NATO support and U.S. alliances around the globe, and Europe's need to take more responsibility for defense and funding. Former Biden official Rush Doshi offers insight into how China views Trump's return amid intensifying U.S.-China rivalry, while Ukraine's ex-Defense Minister Andriy Zagorodnyuk discusses how Kyiv views Trump's promise to end the war in Ukraine on day one. Then, marking 35 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Christiane revisits her conversation with Mikhail Gorbachev from 1999, reflecting on today's global challenges to democracy. Finally, Jan Egeland of the Norwegian Refugee Council provides an on-the-ground account of the escalating humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Politiikkaradio punnitsee tuoreita uutisia ja kysyy, löytävätkö lännen ulkopuoliset maat toisensa. Uutiset kertovat, että Pohjois-Korea lähettää tuhansia sotilaita Venäjän avuksi Ukrainaa vastaan. Venäjä ja Kiina taas haluavat vastavoiman länsivalloille laajentamalla Brics-maiden järjestöä, joka kokousti hiljattain. Kiinassa juuri vieraillut Suomen presidentti Alexander Stubb korosti, että Kiina on rakentava, ja Venäjä tuhoisa voima. Millaiseen huoleen länsimaissa on syytä? Aiheesta puhuu Ulkopoliittisen instituutin virkaatekevä johtaja Mikael Mattlin. Toimittajana on Antti Pilke. Suora lähetys.

Chinese president Xi Jinping has held talks with his Finnish counterpart, Alexander Stubb, who is on a state visit(01:09). China's Shenzhou-19 mission will have fruit flies as part of its life science experiments inside the Tiangong space station(12:05). And China is urging restraint and a cessation to hostilities in the Middle East at a UNSC emergency meeting(20:51).

Suoraa puhetta johtaa Maria Pettersson. Keskustelijoina ovat Pekka Seppänen, Ruben Stiller ja Hilkka Olkinuora. Helsingissä kohistaan, koska Suomalainen klubi ei muuttanut sääntöjään niin, että jäseniksi kelpaisivat muutkin kuin miehet. Pekka Seppäsen mielestä kohina on ollut aika yksimielistä, klubilaiset ovat tyhmiä ja ajastaan jäljessä. Pekka ihmettelee, mitä se muille kuuluu, keitä Suomalaisen klubin jäseninä on. Eikö riitä, että yhdistys noudattaa lakeja ja omia, Patentti- ja rekisterihallituksen hyväksymiä sääntöjään? Jos miehet haluavat pitää keskenään yhdistystä niin pitäkööt. Ulkomaankauppa- ja kehitysministeri Ville Tavio päätti, että Suomi jää Ukrainan jälleenrakentamisen tasa-arvo ja inklusiivisuusliittoutuman ulkopuolelle. Ruben Stillerin mielestä Taviolle on uhka se, jos Ukrainan jälleenrakentamisessa jollain tavalla otettaisiin huomioon myös homot ja tasa-arvo. Ruben tiedustelee, mitä mieltä keskustelijat ovat tästä sopasta, johon on joutunut sekaantumaan myös tasavallan presidentti Alexander Stubb. Mitä peliä tässä pelataan? Onko ministeri Ville Tavio Venäjän arvoyhteisön kannalla?  Maailmaa näyttävät johtavan tällä hetkellä pahat ja usein mieleltään epävakaat miehet. Hilkka Olkinuora kysyy, missä on eettis-poliittinen johtajuus. Me tiedämme missä ovat aikamme Stalin, Hitler ja Mao. Mutta missä ovat aikamme Martin Luther King, Mandela ja Gandhi? Missä ovat ihmiset, jotka yhdistävät aatteen ja toiminnan? Mikä ja kuka voisi korvata nämä moraalin ja etiikan majakat, vai tarvirtaanko niitä enää?

Uutiset ja sää radiossa, oikaisu: Pääministeri Petteri Orpo on selittänyt poisjääntiään korkeantason Eurooppa-kokouksesta eikä EU-kokouksesta, kuten lähetyksessä mainitaan. Orpon sijaan Euroopan poliittisen yhteisön kokoukseen heinäkuussa osallistui presidentti Alexander Stubb. Kokouksen aikaan lomaillut Orpo sanoo asettaneensa perheensä edelle ja selvittäneensä virkamiehiltä, että presidentti voi tarvittaessa sijaistaa pääministeriä.

Aro Velmet is an associate professor of history at the University of Southern California, where he is a historian of modern Europe, colonialism, science, technology, and medicine with an overarching interest in gender studies. For Baltic Ways, he shares insights into the progression of LGBTQ+ rights in Estonia and the broader region and the path that has led to legislative change over the past decade. Mentioned in this episode:Velmet, A. (2019). Sovereignty after Gender Trouble: Language, Reproduction, and Supranationalism in Estonia, 1980–2017. Journal of the History of Ideas 80(3), 455-478. Põldsam, Rebeka, et al. Kalevi Alt Välja: LGBT+ Inimeste Lugusid 19. Ja 20. Sajandi Eestist. Eesti LGBT Ühing : Rahva Raamat, 2023.Elisarion: Elisàr von Kupffer and Jaanus Samma at the Kumu Art Museum in TallinnIrina Roldugina, UCIS Postdoctoral Fellow, History, Slavic Languages and LiteratureTranscriptIndra Ekmanis: Hello, and welcome to Baltic Ways, a podcast bringing you interviews and insights from the world of Baltic studies. I'm your host Indra Ekmanis. Aro Velmet is an associate professor of history at the University of Southern California where he is a historian of modern Europe, colonialism, science, technology, and medicine, with an overarching interest in gender studies. Today in our conversation, we speak about recent changes to LGBTQ-plus issues in Estonia and the broader region and the path that has led to where we are today. Stay tuned. Dr. Aro Velmet, thank you so much for joining us on Baltic Ways. Your research interests are pretty varied, right? They stretch across the globe to look at how microbiology became a tool of French colonial governance, all the way to the history of digital statecraft in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Estonia and in the global south. But today our conversation is going to focus a little bit on your work on gender and the current state of LGBTQ rights in the Baltic states. But before we get there, can you tell us a little bit about yourself and your academic interests?Aro Velmet: Well, thank you, Indra, for inviting me to the show. I am, as you said, primarily a historian of science and technology, and I'm interested in the ways that various kinds of experts make claims on politics and power: how they reformulate questions that we think of as essentially questions of politics—who gets to cross borders, who gets to have various kinds of rights—as questions of technological expertise.So this may mean formulating public health policy, right? If the pandemic breaks out, then who needs to be vaccinated? What kinds of populations need to be surveilled, monitored, and regulated? This is what the first decade of my academic career was dedicated to in the context of the French Empire. Or it may mean questions around gender and reproduction. It may mean questions around how democracy is conducted, which is sort of what I'm researching right now. But I guess at the heart of it really is this question, and really this kind of utopian vision, of using technological expertise to solve these political quagmires, these debates that Western societies have been wrestling with for well over a century, that lots of different scientists have had the idea that maybe the way to break these problems open is through the application of this or that novel technology. So that's kind of what I'm broadly interested in academically. IE: Thank you for sharing that is really interesting. I'm sure that there are many, many different ways you can take that too—a lot of those questions resonate in today's world. Well, returning to the subject at hand today: In the past year or so, we've had some significant legislative steps happen in the Baltic states around LGBTQ-plus rights, particularly in Estonia and Latvia. Estonia adopted a marriage equality bill. In Latvia, civil unions are legal as of July 1st this year. Efforts in Lithuania to recognize same-sex partnerships, however, were also kind of in the legislative mix, but ended up stalling. I wonder if you can give us some insights into where the Baltic states currently stand with regard to LGBTQ rights and, more of some of the historical context of those rights in the region.AV: So I should preface this by saying that I really am not an expert on the histories of Latvia and Lithuania, even though the three Baltic states get lumped into one category very often. They are quite different, particularly in this question of LGBTQ rights.IE: That's fair.AV: To start off, I think the one bit of historical context that is really important is just how rapid and dramatic the shift in public attitudes and the legal situation towards LGBTQ people has been all over the Baltics, and I can speak for Estonia, specifically. And just to give you some idea of that, in 2012—this is a couple of years before same-sex civil unions were legalized—popular support for marriage equality in Estonia stood at roughly about a third of the population. So it was a sort of minority position. And we've now, over the course of twelve years, come to a point where not just marriage equality is now legal, has been legal for just about a year, and it also enjoys growing popular support. It now has majority support and had majority support in 2023 when it was legalized in parliament. So the shift really has been quite dramatic; that's kind of one thing to keep in mind. And I sort of remember when I first started getting involved with this question in 2011, it really was the kind of topic that no mainstream publication, no mainstream politician wanted to touch with a ten-foot pole. We tried to poll legislators, at the time, on their opinion about same-sex marriage or same-sex civil partnerships. And the vast majority of legislators declined to answer the question; they just didn't want themselves to be associated with this. So this situation is now quite dramatically different. The other thing that I already alluded to is that the situation is quite different in different Baltic countries. So while Estonia now has broad majority support to same-sex marriage and overwhelming support, over 70 percent, to same-sex civil partnerships and kind of broad question of do you think homosexuality is acceptable, these numbers are quite different in the Baltic states.So the kind of contrast to this is Lithuania, where a recent survey showed that only barely a quarter of the population supports same-sex marriage: so dramatically different contexts. And to a degree, these are contexts that are explained by history, culture, and politics, right? Lithuania is a strongly Catholic country, and the kind of Catholic discourse that is global and particularly prominent in Poland, but also in other Catholic countries such as France, that really sees homosexuality as a sin and same-sex marriage as an affront to church doctrine, is really something that dominates in Lithuania.I think the situation in Latvia is a bit more complicated, and you probably can tell me more about this than I can tell you. But it seems to me that a lot of that discourse has to do with Russian-oriented political parties and the discourse that is connected to the Kremlin's official position on gay rights and the preservation of so-called traditional marriage.So there's lots of context here that makes these three countries in some ways quite different, but I think they are also similar in that the broad sort of direction of travel over the past two decades has been towards increasing acceptance of the LGBTQ community and increasing moves towards legislation that protects the rights of gay and queer people around the three Baltics states.IE: Thank you for sharing that background. I'm no expert on the situation in Latvia, but it's quite interesting. Edgars Rinkēvičs, the current president, is the first gay head of state in Europe. At the same time, you're right that the discourse is quite difficult and legislatures have taken quite a long time to implement some rulings from the Supreme Court, which has urged them to take steps towards approving civil unions and same-sex partnerships for a while. It's quite a mixed bag. You mentioned the situation in Lithuania and the kind of deep ties to Catholicism and faith. That's something that, I think often, is thought of when we think of resistance to LGBT rights. But you also wrote an article in 2019, called “Sovereignty After Gender Trouble,” where you look at, more specifically, Estonia, which is not really a particularly religious society in the same sort of way. And you look at how the opposition to LGBT rights drew arguments more broadly linking them to demography, state sovereignty, language, resistance to that kind of supranational authority: in this case, it was the European Union. And certainly, demography and language in the Baltic states are quite existential hot topics.So I would love it if you could tell us a little bit more about that research. I found that article really interesting.AV: I think the research was basically spurred by this question of why is this attack on what certain conservative groups called gender ideology—and we can characterize this as a sort of broadly homophobic sentiment—so popular? Not just in Estonia, but in a variety of different places where it seems that just saying that this is a movement that's grounded in religious sentiment doesn't quite explain its broad popularity among many different social groups. And it is true, it is true also in the Estonian case, that a lot of the leading activists of the so-called anti-gender movement, come from religious backgrounds. So in the case of Estonia, they are fundamentalist Catholics. This is particularly puzzling because Catholicism in Estonia is sort of small—there are very few people who are Catholics. Estonia in general is one of the least religious countries in the world. And yet at the same time, this movement gained a lot of traction in the 2010s during this debate over same-sex civil unions.Now, basically what I found in my research when I looked at the kinds of arguments that these anti-gender activists and conservative politicians were making, their arguments weren't really about religion. They weren't really about something like natural law—something that's often invoked in Catholic discussions.But they were really about a question of sovereignty. And the way this argument was made was roughly, like this: The symbol of health for the Estonian state is population growth, right? When the population is growing, then the state is healthy. When the population is declining, then this means that Estonian sovereignty is under attack.And we see this in the Soviet period when mass migration of Russophone citizens threatened the Estonian demographic situation in the 1980s. This is how this argument is made. AV: And we're seeing this in the 2000s where the Estonian population, the kind of natural birth rate is declining. And what this must mean is that Estonian sovereignty is under threat by this different supranational organization, the European Union. The links that these groups draw between the European Union and the Soviet Union are in some cases, very direct. There are cartoons where you have a kind of fat cat Estonian politician bowing toward Moscow in 1988 and then toward Brussels in 2014. And the problem with these kinds of supranational organizations is that they are out of touch with the will of the people. They're out of touch with what people consider to be a healthy way of living, and this is expressed through these programs supporting LGBT rights.So really I think that this tells us quite a bit about what draws the sort of broader population to this kind of rhetoric. It's not really Christian rhetoric, which is quite downplayed, about sinfulness and natural law and righteous living and things like that. It's really a language about giving away power to supranational entities. And in this telling, the support of the political class, of Estonian liberals and social democrats, towards LGBT rights then becomes a kind of proxy for saying, “Look, these are people whose interests lie with Brussels and not with the people in Tallinn or in Paide or in Kohtla Järve or in these small towns that are being forgotten.”And I think actually that move—where gay rights become a stand-in for a kind of liberal alienation and a representation of a loss of sovereignty to supranational institutions—is actually quite revealing because I think that is broadly the same kind of argumentation that is being put forth in Poland by the Law and Justice Party, by Viktor Orban's Fidesz, with a sort of heavy dollop of anti-Semitism thrown in for good measure, and by the Rassemblement National in France as well. And by peeling away the religious layers of this rhetoric, we really get to what is at the heart of the matter.IE: Yeah. Maybe the supranational part is also perhaps not as intensive in the United States, but the idea of the kind of alienation, especially of the rural population and the areas that are underserved, and homosexuality as a kind of stand-in there for politicians is—I think it's instructive also there. As you noted, this article focuses on the backlash to the European Union's more progressive stance. You know, you mentioned Poland and Hungary—these are also the close neighbors of the Baltic states in some ways. But on the other side, you have Finland, Sweden, and Northern Europe—decidedly more progressive in their stances. So I wonder if you could perhaps tell us a little bit about how the international community—be it organizations or be it close neighbors or even further neighbors—have influenced the trajectory for the Baltic states on these questions.AV: Yeah, of course. It's interesting that you bring up the Nordics because I think something that has made a very substantial difference in Estonia's trajectory compared to Latvia and Lithuania is the very close economic and cultural ties to Sweden and Finland and Norway as well. And therefore they were able to benefit from many of the resources of these countries and in ways that are quite material. So Norway's gender equality fund, for instance, has financed a lot of Estonian NGOs, and had for a long time financed the office of gender equality at the Ministry of Social Affairs. Lots of activists, who've been working at this in Estonia for a long time, have either family in Finland or Sweden or hail from there, or sort of Estonian Swedes or something like that, and generally the sort of links and networks with Nordic organizations have been very tight. And so there's always been a lot of people who are willing to do advocacy work in Estonia when in moments where local politicians have not been willing to speak up for gay rights it has been quite easy to get someone like Alexander Stubb, the current Finnish president, to give an interview on the issue, you know, way back in 2011. So I think that has made quite a big difference. I mean, this, in some ways, also opens up the local community to the criticism that they're astroturfing, right: that these organizations are EU-funded organizations that, again, are somehow alienated from the rest of the population. I just want to make very, very clear that this is a very misleading argument. Because it hasn't been for a lack of wanting or a lack of initiative that these organizations have evolved over the time that they have. It's been primarily due to a lack of funding. It's been due to the fact that there simply haven't been funding sources for people to build these organizations within Estonia. So they've gone to supranational organizations like the EU, like the Soros Foundation or various Nordic sources of funding to do it. IE: Maybe we can continue on—because I think we're already on this path—that you can tell us a little bit more about local activism, local organizations, and how that's impacting both the political side legislation but also the social side. That's quite a dramatic statistic that you cited for Estonia, right? In just a handful of years moving general acceptance of same-sex marriage.AV: So the support for same-sex marriage right now is just over half of the population. And you can break this down demographically and see some interesting things there. The below-25-year-olds overwhelmingly support it. Russian-language speakers tend to be more skeptical, but they are, the growth has been, perhaps the fastest over the past couple of years. So yeah, the changes have been quite dramatic. And thinking about the organization and the kind of activists seen in Estonia, some things appear quite different if you look at it, particularly from an Anglophone or an American's perspective, which is that, by and large, organizations in Estonia tend to be more oriented towards either internal community building or kind of professional policy work. Really sort of working together with the Minister of Social Affairs with legislators in the parties who are broadly favorable to LGBT rights, with various ministries and state organizations, rather than having a kind of strong on the streets presence, right? This putting bodies on the streets and really pushing in that form hasn't been a particularly big part of political activism and certainly not in Estonia. I know less about Latvia and Lithuania. And in some sense this has been, I think, both a positive and a negative aspect. Certainly, we've seen how quickly and well conservative organizations have organized, precisely around big public meetings and building a kind of mass base of support for their agenda. And this certainly made the fights in 2014, and to a lesser extent last year, quite complicated. The other thing I think that's worth mentioning, that some researchers like Pauliina Lukinmaa have pointed out, is that the LGBTQ community and the organizations in particular tend to be quite divided along ethnic lines, right? There are many different communities that for a long time didn't really talk to one another and have had very different experiences. In Estonia this has been compounded by the arrival of folks who are fleeing persecution in Russia and also Ukrainian LGBTQ people who have arrived in Estonia with the ongoing war in the past two years. So thinking about how to bring these communities together has generally been one of the challenging aspects. Again, I'm relying here on research that I've read, more than direct experience. IE: Yeah, that is interesting to see how those cleavages also carry over into this type of work and activism. I wonder, what do you see as the future for LGBT rights in the Baltic states? Do you see this growing convergence, this very rapid kind of shift that you've already pointed to continuing and will convergence with Northern Europe may be on the horizon? Is it tangible?AV: Yeah, I think it depends a lot on political contingency. One thing to keep in mind is that, for instance, both the same-sex civil partnership law that was passed in Estonia in 2014, and the marriage equality law that was passed in 2023—these were not foregone conclusions. These were narrow votes, products of a lot of lobbying that could have gone in a different direction had a few things here and there been different. So they were really kind of utilizing the opportunity handed in a moment. And we need to keep this in mind, right? I think the Baltics are broadly in a similar situation all around where small shifts in the political makeup of the country can dramatically change the situation on rights. I think one of the challenges that all three countries will face, and certainly Estonia is seeing this unfold right now, is that generally, the parties that have most steadfastly supported queer rights have been liberal parties in the sense of being sort of broadly on the right, economically speaking. So the Reform Party in Estonia—that's the current prime minister's party—at a certain point, can only go so far in that direction, right? And already after the last elections, we saw quite a bit of debate over whether the winning of marriage equality was really—well, let me think of how to sort of put this, in the best way. That there's a trade-off if you sacrifice, for instance, progressive healthcare policy or progressive taxation policy for something like marriage equality. Because, of course, queer people also need healthcare. In fact, they are more likely to require healthcare. They are more likely to be vulnerable to social dislocation. They are more likely to need government services. They are more likely to experience workplace discrimination. So, they also need stronger labor protections. So, this question of how much do you want to hitch your ride to the liberal bandwagon is one that I think is going to become increasingly acute now that these basic questions of civil rights have been more or less settled. I don't think these are going to be turned back.But now we're starting to see that actually the experience of middle-class queer people in Tallinn can be quite different from poor queer people in the countryside. We are starting to think more about what is the difference between the experience of queer people who speak Estonian versus those who speak Russian. And I think figuring this out is going to be quite the challenge because there is not nearly as much consensus on issues of social policy than there is emerging on this sort of broader question of civil rights. IE: Yeah, that's a really good point to make. Thank you for highlighting it. Well, we're nearing the end of our time, but I want to ask you to tell us a little bit about what you are currently working on and if you have any recommended reading for listeners.AV: Sure, the answer to the first question is going to take us quite far from this conversation since gender and gender studies are a part of all of my research. You know, it's a fundamental part of the human condition, so anything one studies, I think, should have a gender component to it, but it's not the primary topic of my research right now. I'm interested in the history of information processing and governance and the idea of solving politics through computers. I'm following the story from the 1960s and the foundation of various institutes of cybernetics in places like Tallinn, Kyiv, Vilnius, and elsewhere, to the story of the Estonian digital state that emerged in the 1990s and is still kind of the main branding exercise. IE: E-stonia.AV: Yeah, E-stonia, exactly. The digital republic. And, you know, it's still asking questions about the relationship of expertise to power. The way people imagine political communities and the way people imagine bodies. So it carries many of the themes of the stuff that I've researched before, but taking it a little bit closer to the Baltic states.And then as for reading recommendations, I really would love for people to engage with the work of Irina Roldugina, who is, I think, currently at the University of Pittsburgh. She's a fantastic scholar of Soviet social queer history, really a kind of queer history written from the bottom up. And it's this really phenomenal reading. She's found archives that are just astounding in what they reveal, but also in how difficult it is to really discover queer voices in the archive, which have tended to marginalize them throughout the 20th century. Folks who read Estonian, I really would like to recommend the collected volume titled Kalevi Alt Välja, which is edited by my friend and colleague Uku Lember and Rebeka Põldsam and Andreas Kalkun, which chronicles again, sort of, bottom-up queer histories in Estonia from the 19th century to the present. And I think it'd be a very nice companion to this exhibit on queer Balto-German art that's right now running at the National Art Museum in Tallinn. So, also really, really interesting stuff—again, uncovering a part of Baltic queer history that I had no idea about, personally. And it's great art to boot. So yes, lots of good stuff out there. IE: Those are excellent recommendations. We'll be sure to link them in the bottom of our podcast notes. And I want to thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us, for sharing your perspective on your vast array of research topics, and for honing in on this subject with us this time. But perhaps we'll have to speak again on some of your other work. So I just want to thank you. Thank you so much.AV: I would be happy to talk more. Thank you for inviting me. IE: Thank you for tuning into Baltic Ways, a podcast from the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies, produced in partnership with the Baltic Initiative at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. A note that the views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of AABS or FPRI. I'm your host Indra Ekmanis. 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This week's guest on Talking Europe has a unique vantage point on both the world of politics and sports. Alexander Stubb, the president of Finland, has been an established and influential figure in European and global affairs for the past decade. He's also a keen sportsman, competing – and winning titles – in triathlon, even during his political career. 

北约领导人齐聚美国首都华盛顿举行峰会之际，中国国家主席习近平先与俄罗斯总统普京借由上合组织会面，接着又在北京会见来访的匈牙利总理欧尔班，提出“戰場不外溢、戰事不升級、各方不拱火”的乌战和平三原则。与此同时，解放军与白俄罗斯在波兰与乌克兰的边境举行联合军演。北约盟国芬兰的总统斯图布（Alexander Stubb）在接受美国媒体访问时表示，俄国已经沦为中国附庸， “习近平掌握着和平解决俄乌冲突的钥匙，只要一通电话就能结束战争。” 习近平是否真的有这样的能力与意愿终结乌克兰战争？中俄两国倡议的“欧亚安全体系”是不是要打造“华约2.0版”？

In this episode of Hold Your Fire!, Richard is joined by Finnish President and former Crisis Group trustee Alexander Stubb to talk about next week's NATO summit, European security and the war in Ukraine. They assess Finland's role as one of NATO's newest members, Europe's defence spending and preparedness and the future of the alliance as Washington's attention shifts to the Asia Pacific. They talk about the war in Ukraine and what hope there is for a negotiated settlement. They discuss how Western capitals can counter perceptions of their double standards in much of the rest of the world and the challenges facing peacemaking and diplomacy in an era of big power competition and a more multipolar world order.For more, check out our recent podcast episodes Ukraine and European Security and U.S. Elections and the Future of Transatlantic Relations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Visuaalinen journalisti Lasse Rantanen tunnetaan poleemisista lehtikuvituksistaan, joissa tökitään vallanpitäjiä ja politiikkaa kriittisessä valossa. Rantasen töitä julkaistaan muun muassa Helsingin Sanomien pääkirjoitussivuilla. Rantasen tuoreessa esseekokoelmassa ”Raha pilaa kaiken – kriittisen ajattelijan kuvakirja” ruoditaan yhtälailla politiikkaa suorin sanoin. Miksi vallanpitäjiä pitäisi tökkiä? Mitkä ovat 2020-luvun yleisesti hyväksyttyjä totuuksia, joita politiikassa ei kyseenalaisteta? Minkä motiivin nykyinen valtiovarainministeri Riikka Purra (ps.) paljasti kesken Orpon hallituksen hallitusneuvotteluiden? Miksi tasavallan presidentti Alexander Stubb kuvattiin ministeriaikoinaan lehteen Shakespearen Hamlettina? Lasse Rantasta haastattelee Politiikkaradion Tapio Pajunen. Lasse Rantasen lehtikuvituksista koottu näyttely ”Kuvia sanoihin, sanoja kuviin” on esillä Sanomatalossa Helsingissä 1.6.2024 saakka.

Stephen Sackur is in Helsinki to speak to the President of Finland Alexander Stubb. Russia's invasion of Ukraine prompted Finland to take the strategically significant step of joining Nato. But is it wise for Finland to pick sides in the deepening conflict between Russia and the west?

Alexander Stubb i Sverige på statsbesök, FN-förhandlingar i Ottawa Kanada om världens första globala plastavtal, Nato besöker Gotland, pratar vi för mycket om psykisk ohälsa?, reaktioner i Rwanda om asylprövning, avslutning EU-parlamentet, duscha till en schlager, missnöje bland ryssar efter översvämningarna, läkarstudenter och samvetsfrihet och omfattande protester mot Gazakriget på flera amerikanska toppuniversitet. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play.

This week on the show, Fareed speaks with former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett about the war in Gaza, and whether Israel's current strategy can eradicate Hamas. They also discuss Prime Minister Netanyahu's political position, and whether Bennett might run to be Israel's next prime minister.  Then, Finland's new president Alexander Stubb joins the show to discuss his recent trip to Kyiv, the potential impact of a second Trump term on NATO, and why peace negotiations in Ukraine are still a long way off.  Finally, Assistant Editor of The Spectator, Cindy Yu, talks to Fareed about the social media backlash against China's richest man.   GUESTS: Naftali Bennett (@naftalibennett), Alexander Stubb (@alexstubb), Cindy Yu (@CindyXiaodanYu)  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Alexander Stubb tillhör den typ av Davos-skadade politiker som gjort att Donald Trump framstår som ett attraktivt alternativ för väljarna. Ola Wong skriver om mannen som vann söndagens presidentval i Finland. Inläsare: Magnus Thorén

Finsko bude mít nového prezidenta. Zvítězil tam kandidát středopravicové Národní koalice Alexander Stubb. Účastníci kampaně i komentátoři se shodují, že celé volby proběhly v poklidné, civilizované a přátelské atmosféře, jak se na Skandinávii sluší.

Kate Adie presents stories from Israel and Gaza, Guyana, Finland and the USA.International media have been campaigning to gain access to Gaza in the months since the Israeli bombardment began - with only occasional access granted, which is closely supervised by the Israeli military. More often, news organisations have relied on Palestinian journalists already living and working in Gaza, who continue to operate under dangerous conditions. Jeremy Bowen reflects on the difficulties of telling the story of the Israel-Gaza war.After Guyana discovered it had substantial oil reserves almost ten years ago, its economy was quickly transformed and it's now the world's fastest growing economy. But its neighbour, Venezuela, recently contested Guyana's claim to oil-rich Essequibo region, which makes up two-thirds of Guyana's territory, reviving a centuries-old territorial dispute. Michelle Jana Chan went to see how the country had changed.Alexander Stubb was elected as Finland's president in polls last weekend, heralding a more hawkish approach to Russia. Finland acceded to NATO last year, and has a strategic role to play given its long border with its giant neighbour. Emilia Jansson reflects on what sort of President, Mr Stubb will be - and on what the presidential campaign revealed about Finnish attitudes.And in the US, the decor of the Oval Office in the White House is always closely watched when there's a change of President. Donald Trump's military flags were replaced with busts of influential figures from America's past, ranging from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Rosa Parks. Nick Bryant reports on what the contents of the President's bookshelf might reveal.Series Producer: Serena Tarling Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith Production coordinator: Katie Morrison

Facts & Spins for February 13, 2024 Top Stories: Trump says the US shouldn't protect NATO allies who don't pay, Israel rescues two hostages held in Gaza, US defense secretary Lloyd Austin is hospitalized again, Alexander Stubb wins Finland's presidential election, A report contradicts Washington's account of the dismissal of Ukraine's top general, Indian police block roads as farmers advance on New Delhi, France rescinds birthright citizenship for Mayotte, Hungary's president resigns over a sex abuser pardon, The marathon world-record holder is killed in a crash, The Biden campaign joins TikTok, and a new prosthetic hand enables amputees to sense temperature. Sources: https://www.verity.news/

Der konservative Alexander Stubb ist neuer finnischer Präsident. In diesem Amt ist er auch Oberbefehlshaber der finnischen Armee uns kann mitentscheiden über die Nato-Politik an der Grenze zu Russland. Weitere Themen: * Mindestens 37 Menschen sind bei Angriffen auf den Gazastreifen in der Nacht getötet worden. Die israelische Armee hat nach eigenen Angaben zwei Geiseln befreit. * Die Kansas City Chiefs gewinnen den Superbowl, mit 25 zu 22 Punkten gegen die San Francisco 49ers.

Suomen 13:nneksi presidentiksi eilen valittu kokoomuksen Alexander Stubb pitää tiedotustilaisuuden maanantaina iltapäivällä. Stubb voitti valitsijayhdistyksen, vihreiden tukeman Pekka Haaviston 3,2 prosenttiyksiköllä. Tiedotustilaisuudessa tulevan presidentin odotetaan valottavan, miten hän alkaa valmistautua tulevaan tehtävään.

In verschiedenen europäischen Ländern gehen die Bäuerinnen und Bauern auf die Barrikaden. In der Schweiz fielen die Proteste bislang eher klein aus. Doch jetzt wird der Schweizer Bauernverband aktiv. Weitere Themen: Finnland hat einen neuen Präsidenten. Auf den konservativen Sauli Niinistö folgt der konservative Alexander Stubb. Was nach Fortsetzung tönt, ist in Tat und Wahrheit ein historischer Bruch. Der asiatische Inselstaat Indonesien soll in den nächsten Jahren eine neue Hauptstadt erhalten – neu gebaut, mitten im Urwald auf der Insel Borneo. Präsident Joko Widodo will sich damit ein Vermächtnis setzen.

Nyheter och fördjupning från Sverige och världen. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play. Rättelse:I en tidigare version av den här sändningen angav vi felaktigt att Alexander Stubbs parti heter moderata samlingspartiet. Korrekt partinamn ska vara Samlingspartiet.Rättelsen är gjord den 12 februari.

6 februari. Inför helgens andra presidentvalsomgång i Finland leder Alexander Stubb i opinionsmätningarna mot Pekka Haavisto. Men hur stora är skillnaderna mellan dem? Kimmo Grönlund, professor i statsvetenskap vid Åbo akademi, och Kalle Silfverberg, chefredaktör på Hufvudstadsbladet, diskuterar kandidaterna och utgången med Andreas Ericson.

Finland väljer ny president och överbefälhavare i en helt ny tid. Men när Stubb och Haavisto duellerar handlar det inte bara om hotet österifrån, utan även om vinterbad, cykelbyxor och rock. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play. På söndag avgörs den andra omgången i det finländska presidentvalet. Efter att ha skakat av sig klungan står det nu mellan Pekka Haavisto och Alexander Stubb. En av dem kommer bli den nye garanten för stabilitet i Natos senaste medlemsland. De två möts nu i debatter och det jämna opinionsläget bäddar för en spännande valdag. Men valrörelsen beskrivs som artig och lugn och de politiska skillnaderna är knappast lätta att urskilja. Så vad kommer avgöra i slutändan?”Stödet för Niinistö nästan på nordkoreansk nivå”Hör också om arvet efter den avgående presidenten Sauli Niinistö. Hans popularitet är skyhög i Finland och han har bland annat beskrivits som en person som kan uttolka hur Rysslands Vladimir Putin tänker. Klart är att presidentämbetet fått en ny innebörd efter den fullskaliga invasionen av Ukraina och under Niinistös tid. Den nye presidenten kommer att representera Finland i Nato och även fungera som landets överbefälhavare. Medverkande: Andreas Liljeheden, Brysselkorrespondent. Carina Holmberg, korrespondent i Finland. Marianne Sundholm, reporter på Yle. Programledare: Caroline SalzingerProducent: Therese Rosenvinge

Today's episode begins with a report from CNN's Fred Pleitgen from southern Ukraine. It's followed by an interview with Finnish presidential candidate Alexander Stubb. Then comes extensive coverage of King Charles' cancer diagnosis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Björn Þór Sigbjörnsson og Eyrún Magnúsdóttir ræddu við Boga Ágústsson um leiðtogafund ESB þar sem málefni Úkraínu verða á dagskrá, þingkosningar í Serbíu, ungfrú alheim sem er í ónáð stjórnvalda í Níkaragúa og komandi forsetakosningar í Finnlandi. Leiðtogafundur Evrópusambandsins í dag snýst að miklu leyti um málefni Úkraínu, annars vegar áframhaldandi fjárhagslegan og hernaðarlegan stuðning, hins vegar tillögu framkvæmdastjórnar ESB um að bjóða Úkraínu að hefja aðildarviðræður. Viktor Orban, forsætisráðherra Ungverjalands, er því andsnúinn og getur hindrað stuðning og aðildarviðræður þar sem samþykki allra þarf. Þingkosningar verða í Serbíu á sunnudaginn og útlit er fyrir að stjórnarflokkurinn haldi völdum. Það yrði enn einn sigur popúlista því landið hefur verið á stöðugri leið til hins verra frá 2012 er Framfaraflokkurinn komst til valda. Þar hefur þróun orðið svipuð og í Ungverjalandi, vegið að sjálfstæði dómstóla, fjölmiðla og annarra lýðræðislegra stofnana, spilling hefur stóraukist undir forystu forsetans Aleksandar Vucic. Að auki hafa Serbar troðið illsakir við granna sína á Balkanskaga. Annað einræðisríki er Níkargúa og kjör Miss Universe hefur hrætt Daniel Ortega einræðisherra sem ekki hefur þolað fjöldasamkomur frá því að hann barði niður lýðræðiskröfur almennings 2018 þar sem hundruð manna voru myrt. Sheynnis Alondra Palacio, Ungfrú Níkargúa, var kjörinn ungfrú alheimur í nóvember og þá þusti mannfjöldi út á götur og fagnaði. Bláhvítum fána landsins var veifað en Ortega og Sandinstahreyfing hans vill ekki að þeir litir séu notaðir, rautt og svart eru litir Sandinista og þá vill forsetinn sjá. Þess vegna virðist hann og ættarveldi hans líta á það sem pólitísk mótmæli að fegurðardrottningin var í hvítum kjól með ljósbláa slá um herðarnar þegar hún var krýnd. Í lokin var fjallað um forsetakosningarnar í Finnlandi þar sem Alexander Stubb nýtur mests fylgis. Stubb er fyrrverandi forsætis-, utanríkis- og fjármálaráðherra. Hann er 55 ára, nam stjórnmálafræði í Bandaríkjunum, Evrópuháskólanum í Belgíu og við Sorbonne háskóla í París. Hann varði svo doktorsritgerð í Evrópufræðum frá London School of Economics. Hann starfaði í finnska utanríkisráðuneytinu og fyrir Evrópusambandið uns hann settist á Evrópuþingið 2004. Stubb dró sig út úr finnskum stjórnmálum 2016 þegar hann tapaði leiðtogakosningum í flokki sínum, Kokoomus/Samlingspartiet, fyrir Petteri Orpo núverandi forsætisráðherra. Stubb er mikill íþróttaáhugamaður, lék íshokkí í æsku og var um tíma í finnska golflandsliðinu og ætlaði að verða atvinnumað

Björn Þór Sigbjörnsson og Eyrún Magnúsdóttir ræddu við Boga Ágústsson um leiðtogafund ESB þar sem málefni Úkraínu verða á dagskrá, þingkosningar í Serbíu, ungfrú alheim sem er í ónáð stjórnvalda í Níkaragúa og komandi forsetakosningar í Finnlandi. Leiðtogafundur Evrópusambandsins í dag snýst að miklu leyti um málefni Úkraínu, annars vegar áframhaldandi fjárhagslegan og hernaðarlegan stuðning, hins vegar tillögu framkvæmdastjórnar ESB um að bjóða Úkraínu að hefja aðildarviðræður. Viktor Orban, forsætisráðherra Ungverjalands, er því andsnúinn og getur hindrað stuðning og aðildarviðræður þar sem samþykki allra þarf. Þingkosningar verða í Serbíu á sunnudaginn og útlit er fyrir að stjórnarflokkurinn haldi völdum. Það yrði enn einn sigur popúlista því landið hefur verið á stöðugri leið til hins verra frá 2012 er Framfaraflokkurinn komst til valda. Þar hefur þróun orðið svipuð og í Ungverjalandi, vegið að sjálfstæði dómstóla, fjölmiðla og annarra lýðræðislegra stofnana, spilling hefur stóraukist undir forystu forsetans Aleksandar Vucic. Að auki hafa Serbar troðið illsakir við granna sína á Balkanskaga. Annað einræðisríki er Níkargúa og kjör Miss Universe hefur hrætt Daniel Ortega einræðisherra sem ekki hefur þolað fjöldasamkomur frá því að hann barði niður lýðræðiskröfur almennings 2018 þar sem hundruð manna voru myrt. Sheynnis Alondra Palacio, Ungfrú Níkargúa, var kjörinn ungfrú alheimur í nóvember og þá þusti mannfjöldi út á götur og fagnaði. Bláhvítum fána landsins var veifað en Ortega og Sandinstahreyfing hans vill ekki að þeir litir séu notaðir, rautt og svart eru litir Sandinista og þá vill forsetinn sjá. Þess vegna virðist hann og ættarveldi hans líta á það sem pólitísk mótmæli að fegurðardrottningin var í hvítum kjól með ljósbláa slá um herðarnar þegar hún var krýnd. Í lokin var fjallað um forsetakosningarnar í Finnlandi þar sem Alexander Stubb nýtur mests fylgis. Stubb er fyrrverandi forsætis-, utanríkis- og fjármálaráðherra. Hann er 55 ára, nam stjórnmálafræði í Bandaríkjunum, Evrópuháskólanum í Belgíu og við Sorbonne háskóla í París. Hann varði svo doktorsritgerð í Evrópufræðum frá London School of Economics. Hann starfaði í finnska utanríkisráðuneytinu og fyrir Evrópusambandið uns hann settist á Evrópuþingið 2004. Stubb dró sig út úr finnskum stjórnmálum 2016 þegar hann tapaði leiðtogakosningum í flokki sínum, Kokoomus/Samlingspartiet, fyrir Petteri Orpo núverandi forsætisráðherra. Stubb er mikill íþróttaáhugamaður, lék íshokkí í æsku og var um tíma í finnska golflandsliðinu og ætlaði að verða atvinnumað

Þórunn Elísabet Bogadóttir og Björn Þór Sigbjörnsson ræddu að þessu sinni við Boga Ágústsson um Martti Ahtisaari, fyrrverandi forseta Finnlands, sem lést fyrr í vikunni. Ahtisaari hlaut friðarverðlaun Nóbels 2008 fyrir áratuga starf í mörgum heimshlutum þar sem hann reyndi að setja niður deilur og sætta stríðandi fylkingar. Alexander Stubb, fyrrverandi forsætisráðherra Finnlands og forsetaframbjóðandi, sagði um Ahtisaari: Heimurinn hefur hugsanlega aldrei þurft eins mikið á manni eins og honum að halda. Ahtisaari vann meðal annars að friði á milli Ísraelsmanna og Palestínumanna. Hann gagnrýndi stærstu ríki heims og hvernig þau beittu sér í deilunni þar sem hugur fylgdi ekki máli. Hann sagði að friður væri spurning um vilja. Allar deilur væri hægt að leysa. Það virðist ekki mikill friðarvilji fyrir botni Miðjarðarhafs þessa stundina. Eftir skelfilega hermdarverkaárás Hamas á Ísrael og þau hryllilegu grimmdarverk sem þá voru framin hefur herafli Ísraels ráðist af mikilli hörku gegn Gasa-svæðinu þar sem á þriðju milljón Palestínumanna býr á svæði sem er á stærð við höfuðborgarsvæðið. Síðasta voðaverkið var árás á Al Ahli Arab Babtista-sjúkrahúsið á norðurhluta Gasa þar sem allt að 500 manns biðu bana. Ísraelsstjórn og Hamas kenna hvorir öðrum um. Ómögulegt virðist að slá föstu hver ber ábyrgð en ólíklegt virðist að þetta hafi verið viljaverk

Þórunn Elísabet Bogadóttir og Björn Þór Sigbjörnsson ræddu að þessu sinni við Boga Ágústsson um Martti Ahtisaari, fyrrverandi forseta Finnlands, sem lést fyrr í vikunni. Ahtisaari hlaut friðarverðlaun Nóbels 2008 fyrir áratuga starf í mörgum heimshlutum þar sem hann reyndi að setja niður deilur og sætta stríðandi fylkingar. Alexander Stubb, fyrrverandi forsætisráðherra Finnlands og forsetaframbjóðandi, sagði um Ahtisaari: Heimurinn hefur hugsanlega aldrei þurft eins mikið á manni eins og honum að halda. Ahtisaari vann meðal annars að friði á milli Ísraelsmanna og Palestínumanna. Hann gagnrýndi stærstu ríki heims og hvernig þau beittu sér í deilunni þar sem hugur fylgdi ekki máli. Hann sagði að friður væri spurning um vilja. Allar deilur væri hægt að leysa. Það virðist ekki mikill friðarvilji fyrir botni Miðjarðarhafs þessa stundina. Eftir skelfilega hermdarverkaárás Hamas á Ísrael og þau hryllilegu grimmdarverk sem þá voru framin hefur herafli Ísraels ráðist af mikilli hörku gegn Gasa-svæðinu þar sem á þriðju milljón Palestínumanna býr á svæði sem er á stærð við höfuðborgarsvæðið. Síðasta voðaverkið var árás á Al Ahli Arab Babtista-sjúkrahúsið á norðurhluta Gasa þar sem allt að 500 manns biðu bana. Ísraelsstjórn og Hamas kenna hvorir öðrum um. Ómögulegt virðist að slá föstu hver ber ábyrgð en ólíklegt virðist að þetta hafi verið viljaverk