{"id":138701,"date":"2025-03-31T09:10:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T06:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/finnish-president-boosts-ties-with-trump-in-surprise-florida-visit\/"},"modified":"2025-03-31T09:10:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T06:10:46","slug":"finnish-president-boosts-ties-with-trump-in-surprise-florida-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/finnish-president-boosts-ties-with-trump-in-surprise-florida-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Finnish president boosts ties with Trump in surprise Florida visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138701\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nFinnish President Alexander Stubb made a surprise trip on Saturday to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump in Florida, where the two leaders discussed strengthening their countries&#8217; bilateral partnership and played a round of golf. &#8221;President Stubb and I look forward to strengthening the partnership between the United States and Finland, and that includes the purchase and development of a large number of badly needed Icebreakers for the U.S., delivering Peace and International Security for our Countries, and the World,&#8221; Trump posted on his Truth Social platform. The Reuters Tariff Watch newsletter is your daily guide to the latest global trade and tariff news.<\/p>\n<p>The two presidents met for breakfast, played golf and had lunch together. They also discussed foreign policy issues, including Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy met with Stubb in Helsinki last week. The Finnish president&#8217;s office said in a statement that Stubb&#8217;s unannounced visit with Trump was informal. Trump arrived at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, on Friday afternoon, before heading to the golf club he owns in West Palm Beach on Saturday morning for a golf tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Lindsey Graham joined Trump&#8217;s team, he said in a post on X,, opens new tab in which he also praised the golfing skills of Stubb, who played golf as an undergraduate at Furman University in Graham&#8217;s home state of South Carolina.Trump&#8217;s meeting with Stubb took place a day after Vice President JD Vance made an uninvited visit to Greenland, a semi-autonomous territory of Finland&#8217;s close Nordic ally Denmark. Vance accused Denmark of doing a poor job keeping Greenland safe. Trump has repeatedly expressed interest in acquiring Greenland, part of a growing international focus on competition to control the Arctic. Denmark&#8217;s government opposes such a move, as do most Greenland residents.<\/p>\n<p>Trump told NBC News in an interview on Saturday that he would &#8221;never take military force off the table&#8221; to accomplish his goal, but said he believe there was &#8221;a good possibility&#8221; it could be done without resorting to force. Asked what message acquiring Greenland would send to Russia and the rest of the world, Trump said, \u201cI don\u2019t really think about that. I don\u2019t really care.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Finland is the world&#8217;s leading producer of icebreakers. About 80% of the ships have been designed by Finnish companies, and around 60% of them have been built at Finnish shipyards. In November, Canada, Finland and the U.S. administration of former President Joe Biden signed a deal called the Icebreaker Collaboration Effort to work &#8221;together to develop world-class Arctic and polar icebreakers through the exchange of knowledge, information, and resources.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Before his visit, Stubb had said he hoped to play golf with Trump and that icebreaker diplomacy could help Finland maintain good relations with the U.S. and Trump. Finland shares the European Union&#8217;s longest border with Russia. After Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Helsinki made a foreign policy U-turn after decades of military non-alignment, deciding to join NATO together with Sweden. Trump&#8217;s frequent criticism of NATO allies and his shift toward normalizing relations with Russia have some European countries scrambling to boost their own defense spending.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/trump-meets-finland-president-discusses-buying-icebreakers-2025-03-29\/\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/finnish-president-boosts-ties-with-trump-in-surprise-florida-visit\/\">Finnish president boosts ties with Trump in surprise Florida visit<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[4608,16617,3873,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-138701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-florida","tag-stubb","tag-trump","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}