Before them in an atrium were arrayed Finnish and Canadian business leaders, researchers, and politicians. Among the men in the audience, suits in shades of blue\u2014the colour of both Nokia and the cross in the Finnish flag\u2014predominated.<\/p>\n
Key commodities and goods don\u2019t secure themselves; the government needs to be involved, Stubb said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe world of 1989, 1991\u2014\u2019market, market, market\u2019\u2014has shifted more towards \u2018state, state, state,\u2019\u201d Stubb said. \u201cI think what we need to understand, as the public sector and the private sector, is that we need to somehow integrate these two.\u201d<\/p>\n
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