The EU wants to play a key role as geopolitics and climate changes dramatically transform the north. Public consultation for a new Arctic policy is now open.
The federal government's new Arctic strategy lists health, infrastructure and economic development at the top, with calls to end poverty, eradicate hunger and eliminate homelessness.
Mitigation of climate change must be at the heart of our Arctic policy, the Finnish government says as it takes over the rotating Presidency of the European Council.
