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Your non stop hotel reservation guide for Hotels in
Finland. We
searched multiple suppliers for the best Room Rate available. Often
GDS (Global Distribution System) suppliers have different room rates, due
to the fact that they individually buy blocks of rooms from hotel chains.
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Hot Deals where we put a Monthly update of all known LAST MINUTES! of
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all known Discounted deals in Europe!
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Ruled by Sweden from the 12th to the 19th centuries and by Russia from 1809,
Finland finally won its independence in 1917. During World War II, it was
able to successfully defend its freedom and fend off invasions by the Soviet
Union and Germany. In the subsequent half century, the Finns have made a
remarkable transformation from a farm/forest economy to a diversified modern
industrial economy; per capita income is now on par with Western Europe. As
a member of the European Union, Finland was the only Nordic state to join
the euro system at its initiation in January 1999.
Finland has a highly industrialized, largely free-market economy, with
per capita output roughly that of the UK, France, Germany, and Italy. Its
key economic sector is manufacturing - principally the wood, metals,
engineering, telecommunications, and electronics industries. Trade is
important, with exports equaling almost one-third of GDP. Except for timber
and several minerals, Finland depends on imports of raw materials, energy,
and some components for manufactured goods. Because of the climate,
agricultural development is limited to maintaining self-sufficiency in basic
products. Forestry, an important export earner, provides a secondary
occupation for the rural population. Rapidly increasing integration with
Western Europe - Finland was one of the 11 countries joining the euro
monetary system (EMU) on 1 January 1999 - will dominate the economic picture
over the next several years. Growth in 2001 was held back by the global
slowdown and will likely be anemic again in 2002.
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