Talk:Politics of Finland

Main difference from other countries, Independent public administration and limited governmental executable responsibilities?
What I understand one of the most special things about Finland is that it has as in Sweden Independent public administration based on the laws and decrees and administratively legally regulated, based on similar views as independent legal courts of law?

This means that the minister of the government is not the manager of the public administration and by law is forbidden to intervene in the applied public administration. It also means that the government is not responsible for public administration. Also politicians are specifically by law not responsible for any applied law in the country.

Also the government is collective in its decisions and a minister has only right of own decisions as manager of the internal administrative work of his governmental department. Governmental departments that do not deal with applied law, but preparing the governments activities in Parliament, like preparing suggestions of new law. Collective in the sense that all governmental decisions is made by the whole government in session (where some might be absent but still a part of the collective).

This was the inherited basis from the Swedish Constitution of 1772 (basis from Instrument of Government (1634)), that was valid in Finland until 1919. Is that changed in the constitution of 2000?

In all other countries but Sweden (and Estonia??) the minister is responsible and in charge of all public administration sorting under their department, while in Sweden and Finland political intervention in public administration is strictly illegal (and a ground for political scandals), that is a radical difference. The biggest difference in constitution among the members of the European union. I big matter of who for instance the EU-commission should address issues to. Addressing applied law issues to the government, the government is not legally able to respond, must be addressed to the public administration on legal grounds. But addressing lack of law is a politic issue and a matter of the government. While In all other countries the government is responsible for everything but the courts of law verdicts. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.247.9.228 (talk) 22:54, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

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"Gender Equality" section
I feel like the gender equality section is a bit too big for the article. I get that there are definitely political implications of that, but it seems to me that this relatively substantial coverage of gender equality would primarily belong in another article, other than one that primarily focuses on the mechanics of Finnish politics. If it where part of a broader discussion of political culture or political, I might understand, but as it it seems a bit out of place; maybe it should be moved to culture of Finland or economy of Finland or some other article. As is, the article does not really mention any other political issues in the country, so unless I'm missing something, it looks a bit random. anamedperson (talk) 22:58, 25 July 2013 (UTC)
 * I moved it to culture of Finland. --Tappinen (talk) 09:05, 3 September 2016 (UTC)

Merger proposal
I propose that Government of Finland be merged into Politics of Finland. I think that the two articles are currently just two sides of the same coin and should be merged for consistency. See e.g. how Politics of France is constructed. See also discussion at Talk:Council_of_State_(Finland). Manelolo (talk) 16:44, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Absolutely. Let's merge these two articles to provide for a more coherent and pleasant reading experience. Pessimistipasta (talk) 16:30, 22 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Merged most content per WP:MERGE appropriately. Now this page will need to be cleaned up, collated, rewritten etc. Manelolo (talk) 16:18, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

Immigrant population
I'm wondering about the sentence "The country's population is ethnically homogeneous with no sizable immigrant population.". According to Immigration to Finland the immigrant population is around 8.5% of the population. At what point does an immigrant population become "sizeable"? 91.145.80.205 (talk) 11:30, 29 March 2023 (UTC)