We are a model country where gender equality is concerned.

Finland, and all the other European countries, we are too dependent on imported energy. We should be using a broader variety of energy resources.

European citizens expect that there will be also a fair system inside the European Union and in the euro, and that's why we have to have quite hard discipline.

Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.

Everybody has to look after their own economy and follow the rules.

The goal of the EU is to form a region of freedom, security and justice. Freedom in this connection cannot be just the freedom of the strong, but it must be combined with fraternity and equality.

It is people who are the objects of globalization and at the same time its subjects. What also follows logically from this is that globalization is not a law of nature, but rather a process set in train by people.