Olli Rehn, in case anyone does not know, is the Finnish commissioner for economic and monetary affairs.
Erkki Liikanen, the Finnish commissioner, was allotted the budget portfolio, and with it a chance to knock some rigour into the commission's financial planning and financial controls.
The Finnish commissioner had taken leave for several weeks to campaign for a seat in the European Parliament and will soon take up his seat.
Erkki Liikanen, the Finnish commissioner charged with bringing Europe's data-protection laws into the digital age, has backed away from a pre-Sept.
The liberals have responded by setting up a contest to be settled next month between Olli Rehn, the Finnish commissioner for the EU economy, and Guy Verhofstadt, an arch-European federalist and former Belgian prime minister who heads the liberals in the European parliament.
It was left to Olli Rehn, the laconic Finnish economic commissioner, to call for "cool heads".
Possible contenders include Carl Bildt, Sweden's foreign minister, who says he does not want the post, and Olli Rehn, the Finnish enlargement commissioner, who probably does.
Having quietly and successfully courted Olli Rehn, the (Finnish) economics commissioner, on this point, Mr Moscovici hopes to convince the commission (and the Germans) that, after a serious effort to reduce the structural deficit this year, the headline number should be allowed to overshoot next.
Conteders for the high representative job include Ursula Plassnik, a former Austrian foreign minister, Olli Rehn, the Finnish EU commissioner, and Carl Bildt, Sweden's foreign minister, whose brilliance is not matched by his popularity in capitals such as Paris (where he is seen as too pro-Turkey) and Berlin (where officials dislike his tough stance on Russia).
Mr. Rehn, the European Union's economic and monetary affairs commissioner, encouraged Finnish lawmakers to consider the country's long-term interests, taking into account what might happen, say, when the bloc takes up agricultural subsidies.
Police Commissioner Mikko Paatero said that Finnish police would increase their monitoring of YouTube and other social networking sites, and when asked whether similar attacks could take place in the future, he replied: "I badly fear it's possible".
