How did we respond in the crisis? What lessons can we draw? And where can we sharpen our focus for the road ahead? Reacting and Responding to Crisis: Leveraging Cooperation to Ensure Stability and Contain Spillovers The period between the Global Financial Crisis and the onset of the COVID event provided some calm for an organization that was built to address crisis.
Because of geographical proximity, the Finnish economy has been influenced by the ups and down of that huge market ever since. After the Russian revolution, and Finnish independence, trade all but stopped, but after the Second World War, the economic linkages again became significant. Finland had to pay war reparations to the Soviet Union.