Far-right parties gain ground in Finnish coalition talks

Finland's conservative National Coalition Party, winner of this year's general election, hopes to form a coalition government with the anti-immigration Finns Party and two other groups — the Swedish People's Party and the Christian Democrats. If negotiations are successful, the coalition will secure a majority of 108 seats in parliament out of 200. However, the negotiations are expected to be difficult as the National Coalition Party must reach a consensus with the nationalist Finns Party, whose leader has previously said that her party will aim to reduce "harmful" immigration from developing countries outside Europe.