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SANNA MARIN: I won’t change the way I behave.
I see a lot of possibilities for our countries to cooperate even further. We have very good bilateral relations already, but I see a lot of possibilities to deepen them.SANNA MARIN: What made me come now? Of course, we always have to plan the schedules with other prime ministers as well, and this was the right moment, just before Christmas. I think this is very good moment.
We are seeing devastating footage every day of the electrical network, the water network being destroyed. Also people killed every day in Ukraine, so we feel a lot of empathy and sympathy for the Ukrainians. SARAH FERGUSON: Now, you're also an icon of progressive leadership really around the world. You lead a coalition dominated by women but you've also described the expectations of you as a trap. What do you mean by that?
So we have to work on many equality issues and we are also seeing double standards still today. Women have to work twice as hard as men and we are seeing that all round the society, and I think it's very important for everyone that we will work for better equality and we have made many reforms, for example, the parental leave reform which I'm very proud of as well.
So, of course, it played a key role in my life and many other people's lives as well. So it enables, for example, people from different backgrounds, also from poorer families, to enter universities. There's no tuition or fee for Finnish citizens to go to university so I think it's very important that we have very good educational system.
SARAH FERGUSON: Of course, one of the most famous pieces of media about you is the video of you dancing, and indeed it's a curiosity of our age, that millions of people know you only, in fact, through the lens of that video, a video of you dancing, and you were criticised for it at home. You even took a drug test as a result of it.SANNA MARIN: Do you mean outrage of people against...
SARAH FERGUSON: A spectacle but nonetheless you made a speech about it which I think is one of the reasons it went around the world, is because of the passion that you showed during that speech. And you said, "During dark times I, too, need to have some joy, light and fun." And you were on the edge of tears, or you were crying a little when you made that speech.
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