Katainen said that Friday’s negotiations had gone well, but that nothing is yet finalised and negotiations will continue tomorrow.
”All the working groups went quite well today, some of them surprisingly well,” said Katainen at a press conference held following the end of Friday’s discussions. He also denied Tuomioja’s earlier claim that the talks had produced a settled policy.
As expected, Friday’s discussions did not yield a conclusion to the debate on the next parliament’s budget deficit. The smaller parties’ hope for a change in Finland’s electoral law has not yet been fulfilled.
”The electoral law has been discussed,” stonewalled Katainen.