The Green League today (18 September) quit the five-party Finnish coalition government in protest at a decision to build a nuclear power plant in the north of the country.
Nuclear power company Fennovoima’s application to build the country’s fifth nuclear power plant was approved in 2010 but changes in the firm’s plans needed to be put to a parliamentary vote. The Greens won ten seats in the parliament in elections in 2011, and made it a condition of their participation in the government that there would be no nuclear plants built.
On Monday (15 September), Ville Niinistö, the environment minister and leader …read more
Source: European Voice
