EMM News Explorer: Alexander Stubb

[-added that]: If tougher rules are wanted, it will also mean sharing sovereignty.

yle 10-DEC-11

[-pointed out]: In Finland we want more discipline, but when talk comes to what that discipline means, then there is discomfort about what this will mean, for example, for national decision-making,

yle 10-DEC-11

[-said]: We took an historic step towards a European economic union, a stability union that will reinforce discipline. Of course, the international agreement which will be created in perhaps three months from now is still a long way off, but at least it is the right direction,

yle 10-DEC-11

[ said]: The markets have defined who are the good guys and who are the bad guys, and their interest rates are in many ways the manifestation of this,

IHT 08-DEC-11

[-said]: There are ... clearly outstanding questions which need to be solved before negotiations can be kicked off. One of them is linked to Kosovo,

eubusiness 22-NOV-11

[-told]: A country that is not triple A rated is not going to be the best one to give you advice on your public finances . . . I see the centrifugal force of a core Europe,

yle 17-NOV-11

[-told]: We took a position ... to support the Franco-German compromise proposal whereby we'd open up air and sea borders in March and then land borders in July,

eubusiness 15-NOV-11

[-told]: Yesterday’s conference was good. Just as I love the EU I also love Nordic cooperation—this is really exciting, important and fun,

yle 03-NOV-11

[ said]: It’s clear that one should not swear, especially not in earshot of others. If this happened, I’m deeply sorry,

yle 03-NOV-11

[-told]: The situation is so tight that basically it would be a vote over their euro membership,

kyivpost 01-NOV-11

[-said]: The situation is so tense that it would in principle be a vote on euro membership,

spiegel 01-NOV-11

[-said]: Any contentious issues, such as unjustified barriers to trade, can be solved more effectively within the WTO framework,

itartass_en 25-OCT-11

[-said]: Russia's WTO membership, expected to take place within the next few months, is a very positive thing from the perspective of both Finnish business interests and the Finland-Russia and EU-Russia bilateral cooperation,

itartass_en 25-OCT-11

[-told]: Usually there is a crisis, then a meeting that ends after midnight, then a press conference where the solution is called historic and permanent, then the markets open and you notice the markets are not satisfied, and you start preparing the next meeting,

news_com_au 24-OCT-11

[-told]: People need to understand that it's not the European Union that's leading the show right now, it is the markets. It's not the European Union that's forcing Greece towards structural changes, it's the markets,

yle 13-SEP-11

[-said]: We really need to wake up in Europe and smell the coffee and understand that,

eubusiness 12-SEP-11

[-said]: pretty tough week,

eubusiness 12-SEP-11

[-told]: I think we have come to a crunch time on two accounts,

eubusiness 12-SEP-11

[-explained]: Our domestic agenda is part of our election result, which gave us a mixed bag. Unfortunately there are forces surrounding the True Finns which have influenced general thinking and political thinking in the way we have seen here,

euobserver 31-AUG-11

[ said]: The EU works best when it has its back against the wall and the markets panting behind it,

eubusiness 29-AUG-11

[-told]: Finland is not out to cause problems, but to find solutions,

wsj 29-AUG-11

[ says]: I think this is as revolutionary as you can be in Europe,

ft 25-AUG-11

[-wrote]: It just feels so wrong,

news24 24-JUL-11

[-asked]: Was he 20 minutes before me?

news24 27-MAY-11

[ replied]: No comment, especially not about bullshit,

yle 23-MAY-11

[-commented]: The world is a slightly safer place today. Osama bin Laden was a leading figure in al-Qaida as well as being a symbol for modern terrorism, so we hope that this event will help to bring about a decrease in terrorist activities across the globe

yle 02-MAY-11

[-said]: The government formation talks are being launched together with the Social Democrats, the True Finns and perhaps several others,

yle 22-APR-11

[-told]: We are not a neutral country, have not been so for the past 20 years. And we are not a militarily nonaligned country but we are a country which does not belong to a military alliance,

usaToday 09-APR-11

[-said]: When we are discussing the issues of peace mediation and reconciliation, the learning of such matters begins at quite an early stage, in fact, as early as in our primary schools. Therefore, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs wants to pass this mission on to Minister of Education Henna Virkkunen,

yle 04-APR-11

[-says]: Nato’s Secretary General was not even invited to Paris, where the international community held a meeting yesterday,

yle 21-MAR-11

[-said]: It depends exactly on what requests come, but I would strongly rule out the possibility that Finland would participate in the no-fly zone operation, for example through the Hornet fighter jets. If different requests do come, then we will calmly and sensibly consider them in the committee for foreign and security policy. It is not today's task,

yle 21-MAR-11

[had earlier had asked:]: How can we on one side look at what's going on in Libya, with almost 300 people shot dead, and not talk about sanctions or travel bans ... for Gaddafi, and at the same time put travel bans and sanctions in Belarus?

earthtimes 21-FEB-11

[-asked]: How can we on one side look at what's going on in Libya, with almost 300 people shot dead, and not talk about sanctions or travel bans for instance for Gaddafi, and at the same time put travel bans and sanctions in Belarus?

earthtimes 21-FEB-11

[-said]: It's not our job to change the leader of Libya, it is the job of the leadership of Libya to listen to its people. And to be quite honest, listening to people doesn't mean that you should be using a machine gun,

earthtimes 21-FEB-11

[-said]: I will certainly raise it in the meeting: I think we should be looking at the same elements at least that we had with Belarus. That means travel bans to Gaddafi and his kin, in other words government, and it also means targeted sanctions,

earthtimes 21-FEB-11

[-said]: Something very big is happening no one knows exactly what,

AP 20-FEB-11

[-said]: I've received news of the Finnish peacekeeper who died in his work as part of the ISAF operation in Afghanistan,

yle 15-FEB-11

[-also warned that]: The pressure had become so immense after the last three weeks that Mubarak came to the conclusion that the change in leadership should happen now rather than in September.

yle 12-FEB-11

[-concluded]: I could imagine that Mubarak was seeking some kind of guarantees to allow for a graceful departure unlike that of Tunisian President Ben Ali,

yle 05-FEB-11

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