Finland takes stand

TURKU: Finland could stay out of a planned third bailout deal for Greece, the Nordic country’s Eurosceptic foreign minister said on Saturday, amid calls from his nationalist party, The Finns, for a more critical stance toward the EU. Finland has taken one of the hardest lines against bailouts among eurozone members, and got even tougher in May when The Finns joined a new centre-right coalition. Finland has said it could accept a deal under which the EU’s bailout fund, the European Stability Mechanism, would be used only within its current capacity. At a meeting of eurozone finance ministers last month, Finland supported the idea of a temporary ‘Grexit’ — Greece leaving the bloc — but eventually accepted that new loan talks could begin.