I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.

One of the biggest development issues in the world is the education of girls. In the United States and Europe, it has been accepted, but not in Africa and the developing countries.

We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions.

I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.

There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.

Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States.

In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.