Foreign relations
Main article: Foreign relations of Finland
According to the latest constitution of 2000, the president (currently Tarja Halonen) leads foreign policy in cooperation with the government (currently Prime Minister Mari Kiviniemi and Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb), except that the government leads EU affairs.[28]
In 2008, President Martti Ahtisaari was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.[29] Finland was considered a cooperative model state, and Finland did not oppose proposals for a common EU defence policy.[30] This was reversed in the 2000s, when Tarja Halonen and Erkki Tuomioja made Finland's official policy to resist other EU members' plans for common defense.[30
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