You are welcome to nominate candidates for the Baltic Sea Award 2011. The Baltic Sea Award is an annual award of Baltic Development Forum for extraordinary contributions to the development of the Baltic Sea Region. The award was established in 2007. This time it is distributed for the 5th consecutive year. The winner of the Baltic Sea Award 2011 will…

The President of Finland Tarja Halonen who received the Swedbank Baltic Sea Award 2008 has donated the money to support a Baltic Sea meeting for young people. The meeting is held on 10-11 September on Harakka Island in Helsinki. President Halonen will participate in the meeting today. The participants in the meeting are young people between the ages of 15…

Minister for Foreign Affairs Carl Bildt visited Helsinki on 29-30 October. On Sunday he took part in the opening of the Baltic Development Forum (BDF) annual summit, where Finland’s President Tarja Halonen gave an opening address. Afterwards there was a reception at the Helsinki City Hall hosted by the Mayor. On Monday Carl Bildt lunched separately with his Finnish colleague…