Unit for Central, Western and Southern Europe
The unit covers issues concerning the following countries:
The United Kingdom, Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Austria, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Malta, France, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Portugal, Poland, San Marino, Liechtenstein, Andorra and Monaco
The unit is responsible for the following issues:
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bilateral relations in all fields of cooperation (EU, political, economic and trade)
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supervision of the Finnish embassies in the countries specified above
Countries
- Andorra(layout.types.url.description) (Opens New Window),
- Austria(layout.types.url.description) (Opens New Window),
- Belgium(layout.types.url.description) (Opens New Window),
- Czech Republic(layout.types.url.description) (Opens New Window),
- France(layout.types.url.description) (Opens New Window),
- Germany(layout.types.url.description) (Opens New Window),
- Hungary(layout.types.url.description) (Opens New Window),
- Ireland(layout.types.url.description) (Opens New Window),
- Italy(layout.types.url.description) (Opens New Window),
- Liechtenstein(layout.types.url.description) (Opens New Window),
- Luxembourg(layout.types.url.description) (Opens New Window),
- Malta(layout.types.url.description) (Opens New Window),
- Monaco(layout.types.url.description) (Opens New Window),
- Netherlands(layout.types.url.description) (Opens New Window),
- Poland(layout.types.url.description) (Opens New Window),
- Portugal(layout.types.url.description) (Opens New Window),
- San Marino(layout.types.url.description) (Opens New Window),
- Slovakia(layout.types.url.description) (Opens New Window),
- Spain(layout.types.url.description) (Opens New Window),
- Switzerland(layout.types.url.description) (Opens New Window),
- United Kingdom(layout.types.url.description) (Opens New Window)
- EUR-30@formin.fi
Personnel

Aleksi Vakkuri
Director
- +358 295 350 627
Aila Mustalahti
Assistant Desk Officer
visit arrangements
- +358 295 351 708
Central and Western Europe Team
Hanna Heikkilä
Team Leader
Central and Western Europe, Great Britain, Ireland, Netherlands
- +358 295 351 194
Ismo Kolehmainen
Desk Officer
Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, EFTA
- +358 295 350 379

Tiina Hirvonen
Desk Officer
Poland, The Czech Republic,the Slovak Republic, Hungary
- +358 295 350 785
Southern Europe Team (EUR-30)

Katri Engström
Specialist
- +358 295 350 926
Henna Kosonen
Desk Officer
France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Monaco, Andorra, San Marino
- +358 295 350 479
E-mail addresses are in the form: forename.surname@formin.fi. Scandinavian characters are replaced by: ä=a, ö=o, å=a.