Miscellaneous pictures

Ari likes restaurants. Waiters do know it.

Car men from Ilomantsi: Member of Parliament (Centre Party) Hannu Hoskonen, owner of the Volvo Amazon Mika Erholtz and Jari Puhakka, a farmer in a 'godfarm'.

Anti-greenpeace-Ari defencing forest industry in Inari, Lapland.

In 2000, Ari collected 17.000 Finnish signatures to his petition to European Commissioner Bolkestein, and paid 102.770 FIM EU-illegal taxes for importing his car. So was started Ari's 10-year journey as MEP and the notorious car tax story of Finland.

Yutchenko from Ukraine and Vatanen from Tuupovaara doing the ground work and planting seeds...

Countries may change, message stays.

Ari Vatanen met his old friend from rallying times Abdullah II bin al-Hussein, current King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, in Strasbourg in December 2007.

We long for freedom.

Abbey of 'France's Tuupovaara'. A good place.

Daddy! Put away your phone... Edith agrees with Tua.

Wherever you might have been born...it's a grand lottery. In the market place of Assuan in December 2008.

The Christmas Day morning in 2008. Mrs Gameela Nour and Ari's Family in front of the prison, where Mr Ayman Nour suffered his punishment after having the courage to challenge President Hosni Mubarak in presidential elections.

Ari told to French Prime Minister François Fillon about an excessive 5000 € fine that was given to a Finnish truck driver in Paris.

Ari's parliamentary assistant Mr Jarmo Sunnari and taxi driver from Tuupovaara, Mrs Armi Kahelin, singing a duetto.

French MEP colleagues in the 'Louvre of Tuupovaara'.

Ari doesn't shoot only cars... 'I have learned the beauty of flowers from Rita who buys them even to a hotel room. There's never too much colours on enchanting sea of colours of Life.

Ari Vatanen and the former Prime Minister of France Dominique de Villepin in Paris, 24 February 2007

Ari Vatanen and the former President of France Jacques Chirac

Ari Vatanen and the President of Isreal Shimon Peres, 22. October 2002

Ari Vatanen and Alaksandar Milinkievič in Strasbourg plenary session, 6 April 2006