The economic affairs minister in Finland's new center-right governing coalition has resigned after 10 days in the job for his alleged ties to the extreme right wing.
The government, which has taken several months to assemble, harbors numerous differences ranging from attitudes to the EU, fiscal policies and immigration to the status of the Swedish language.
On 20 June, Finland’s president Sauli Niinistö appointed a government composed of the centre-right National Coalition Party, the right-wing Finns Party, the centrist Swedish People’s Party of Finland and the Christian Democrats. A 240-page coalition agreement was published four days earlier. The cabinet has a slight parliamentary majority of 107 seats in the 200-seat parliament (Eduskunta).
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Finland has sworn in a new coalition government that is seen as the most right-wing one in the Nordic country’s modern history. President Sauli Niinistö appointed the 19-member Cabinet of