Status quo likely to continue in Finland

  • 2003-03-13
HELSINKIAs Finns prepare to vote in general elections on March 16, pundits have little doubt that the country is headed for another broad-based coalition pursuing much the same kind of consensus policies as in the past.The main contest is between the ruling Social Democrats and its challenger, the agrarian Center Party, but neither offers new solutions to the Nordic country's most pressing problems, which are a stubbornly high unemployment rate and a welfare system in crisis."What choices are there that I can vote for? I haven't voted for years, because there are no alternatives," said Mika...
 
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