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Stubb: joked his MPs will face travel restrictions if the Greens go (Photo: consilium.europa.eu)

Finnish PM faces backlash over Russia nuclear plant

Finland’s new PM, Alexander Stubb, is facing a coalition split over plans for Russian firm Rosatom to build a nuclear reactor.

A contact in the Green League, a junior coalition party, on Thursday (18 September) confirmed to EUobserver that it will quit if Stubb’s cabinet approves the project at a meeting later the same day.

“We joined the coalition on the understanding that there would be no new nuclear plants built during the current, four-year term. So we would see this as a br...

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Stubb: joked his MPs will face travel restrictions if the Greens go (Photo: consilium.europa.eu)

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