{"id":8857,"date":"2011-04-17T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2011-04-17T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=8857"},"modified":"2011-04-17T09:00:02","modified_gmt":"2011-04-17T13:00:02","slug":"this-is-why-the-finnish-election-matters-to-portugal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/04\/17\/this-is-why-the-finnish-election-matters-to-portugal\/","title":{"rendered":"This is why the Finnish election matters to Portugal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike most other EU states, Finland has an option of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-13107620?utm_source=twitterfeed&#038;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">putting the bailout to a vote<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Opinion polls suggest the True Finns have nearly quadrupled in popularity since the last election though they are unlikely to enter government.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts see mainstream parties taking a harder line on the EU as a result.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike other eurozone states, Finland can put requests for bail-out funds to a majority vote in parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Since any bail-out must be approved unanimously by all 17 eurozone members, a hostile Finnish government could theoretically veto it.<\/p>\n<p>The outcome of Sunday&#8217;s election may affect EU plans to shore up Portugal as well as impacting on stability in debt markets.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike most other EU states, Finland has an option of putting the bailout to a vote: Opinion polls suggest the True Finns have nearly quadrupled in popularity since the last election though they are unlikely to enter government. Analysts see mainstream parties taking a harder line on the EU as a result. Unlike other eurozone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,62,53],"tags":[71,337,603,557],"class_list":["post-8857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-europe","category-politics","tag-debt","tag-eu","tag-finland","tag-portugal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2iR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8858,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8857\/revisions\/8858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}