and defence policy. This was backed by the strong performance of Finland's export-led economy, exemplified by companies with global markets such as Nokia and Kone. This was the consensus that was upset first by the euro crisis and then by the election of 2011. Under a strong challenge from the True Finns both the Social Democrats and the Centre Party became less Europhile. Among the leading parties, only the National Coalition Party of Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen remains openly enthusiastic about the EU, although the governing coalition has adopted a more cautious approach, at least on economic issues. Finland's position in Europe continues to be strongly debated: some arguing that the government's more Eurosceptic stance carries negative side effects for Finland within the EU; others note that the continuation of the sovereign debt crisis is even beginning to exhaust the patience of Katainen's National Coalition Party (although it has, case by case, been able to mobilise the necessary parliamentary support for the elements of the EU's stability policies). Polarisation In 2011 the True Finns won 39 parliamentary seats, becoming the third largest party: an electoral breakthrough that put it in the frame to join a governmental coalition. This was a remarkable turnaround for a party that had previously gained less than five percent of the vote in previous elections, winning at most five out of 200 parliamentary seats. This time the party's powerful message against the EU's bail-out policy and the Finnish contributions to it attracted voters across party lines.