Centre Party MP Anneli Jäätteenmäki accuses Parliamentary Speaker Paavo Lipponen of trying to influence the outcome of her upcoming trial with mudslinging. Lipponen vehemently denies this.

Swedish-language advocate Paavo Lipponen is relieved that politicians are demonstrating a more positive attitude towards learning Swedish, the other official language of Finland. Former prime minister ...

Former prime minister Paavo Lipponen and chairperson for the Svenska Nu ("Swedish Now") movement says that making Swedish language optional in the Finnish school system--where it's currently mandatory ...

Finland’s 47-year old system of three-level collective working condition bargaining is looking increasingly likely to go the way of the dodo bird these days, after Prime Minister Juha Sipilä’s fourth ...

His comments follow Thursday’s suspension of Finns party MP Jussi Halla-aho from the party’s parliamentary group for two weeks, after he advocated a military junta for Greece in a Facebook posting.

Lipponen said that, if nominated as the party's candidate, he would fight the election to win. In his speech, Lipponen emphasized the significance of equality and respect for all members of society.

Paavo Lipponen is also an advisor for the Nordstream company which intends to lay the pipeline between Russia and Germany. He says the government is on the right track by considering the pipeline as ...

Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen, who twice took leave to be with his newborns, has proposed giving new fathers an extra month of paid paternity leave. That would be on top of the 18 days they already ...

His comments were a rebuff to an idea put forward earlier by the Minister for European Affairs and Foreign Trade Alexander Stubb, who had suggested extra power be granted to eurozone nations with the ...

Lipponen received about 67 percent of votes from among the party’s ranks. His contenders, Deputy Mayor of Helsinki Tuula Haatainen and MP Ilkka Kantola, attracted 22 and 11 percent of votes ...