Even your choice of the dinner venue is in line of this, since Kalastajatorppa hosted the famous CSCE reception with the participation ranging from Urho Kekkonen to Olof Palme, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing to Helmut Schmidt, as well as Harold Wilson to Gerald Ford, not to speak Leonid Brežnev to Erich Honecker.
It is a historical fact that the CSCE Final Act was a one critical factor of creating the Europe whole and free. In recent years, fiscal statistics have played a role in my professional life in various ways, when I have worked as member of the European Commission, as Finland’s Minister of Economic Affairs, and as a central banker.