Originally Posted by
GUWonder
I've yet to meet a Finn under 65 who doesn't speak some Swedish.

And I've yet got to meet a Finn (Swede/Norwegian/Dane/German/Austrian) under 65 who doesn't speak at least some English... but that doesn't make these countries part of the English-speaking world. :-)
According to Finnish people I know, Swedish is very much on the decline as a
native language in Finland. A lot of families that were Swedish-speaking a generation ago are now Finnish-speaking as a result of mixed marriages (or so I am told). The fact that lots of Finns speak Swedish (along with English) as a
foreign language is a different matter entirely.