here's finland's president backtracking on a referendum, likely to avoid bad numbers: > neither an official opinion poll nor a referendum are necessary for finland to join nato, finland's president sauli niinisto said saturday. > it is already clear that the majority of the population is in favor of the country joining the defense alliance, niinisto said in an interview with the public radio station yle. until the end of last year, he had a different opinion on the matter, but that has changed in the meantime, the scandinavian country's head of state said.
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