Tarja Halonen

Two years later, in 2005, he offended Finland when he criticized its food and claimed he had used his "playboy" charm to convince President Tarja Halonen to allow the EU's Food Safety Authority to be located in Parma, rather than Finland. In 2008, shortly after the election of Barack Obama as US ...

Two years later, in 2005, he offended Finland when he criticised its food and claimed he had used his "playboy" charm to convince President Tarja Halonen to allow the EU's Food Safety Authority to be located in Parma, rather than Finland. In 2008, shortly after the election of Barack Obama as US ...

With the Finns, as former president Tarja Halonen put it: “We live in a cold, harsh, and remote place. Every person has to work hard for themselves, but that is not always enough. You have to help your neighbor.” But calidad humana connotes the sort of deep caring one might expect of a first-class hospice ...

AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah on Wednesday received former Finnish president Tarja Halonen, according to a Royal Court statement. Halonen is currently visiting the Kingdom to check on the programmes implemented by the Finn Church Aid for Syrian refugees in Jordan. During the meeting at Al ...

Western Europe's last naturally caused famine ended 150 years ago this winter. In a poor and backward part of the Russian empire called Finland, more than a quarter of a million people – nearly 10% of the population – starved to death. Last year, on the centenary of its independence, Finland was ranked, ...

Tarja Halonen was the 11th President of Finland, serving from 2000 to March of 2012. She was the first female head of state in Finland. Prior to her presidency, she served as Cabinet Minister and Member of Parliament, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Minister of Justice, and Minister at the Ministry of Social ...

Tarja Halonen, seen here on a visit to Moscow in January. Image: Maxim Shipenkov / EPA. Former Finnish President Tarja Halonen has been appointed to the UN Secretary-General's new High Level Advisory Board on Mediation. Halonen joins the panel along with 17 other high-level figures, including the ...

2005: He caused a diplomatic incident during his second-term as Prime Minister when he suggested that he had seduced Finland's President Tarja Halonen to persuade her to let Italy host a new E.U. food safety agency. “I had to use all my playboy tactics, even if they have not been used for some time,” he ...