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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8741

6 July 2004
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/commission/finland
Olli Rehn (Professor in Political Science) will take over from Erkki Liikanen

Brussels, 05/07/2004 (Agence Europe) - Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen has announced that Olli Rehn (Professor in Political Science, former MEP and Economic Adviser to the Prime Minister) will replace Erkki Liikanen at the European Commission when the latter leaves Brussels this month to become Governor of the Central Bank of Finland. Mr Rehn's official appointment will take place on Wednesday 7 July but it has already been agreed within the governmental coalition that he should be...

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