Erkki Tuomioja
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| Erkki Tuomioja | |
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| Minister for Foreign Affairs | |
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| Assumed office 22 June 2011 |
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| President | Tarja Halonen Sauli Niinistö |
| Prime Minister | Jyrki Katainen |
| Preceded by | Alexander Stubb |
| In office 25 February 2000 – 18 April 2007 |
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| President | Tarja Halonen |
| Prime Minister | Paavo Lipponen Anneli Jäätteenmäki Matti Vanhanen |
| Preceded by | Tarja Halonen |
| Succeeded by | Ilkka Kanerva |
| Member of the Finnish Parliament for Helsinki |
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| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 22 March 1991 |
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| In office 23 March 1970 – 23 March 1979 |
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| Born | July 1, 1946 Helsinki, Finland |
| Nationality | Finnish |
| Political party | SDP |
| Spouse(s) | Marja Helena Rajala (1978-) |
| Website | http://www.tuomioja.org/ |
Erkki Sakari Tuomioja (born 1 July 1946) is the Finnish Minister for Foreign Affairs. He is currently a member of the Finnish Parliament.
Tuomioja is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Finland, although his political views are thought to be more to the left than the party line. He is also a member of ATTAC. In the past, Tuomioja has dated the former Finnish president Tarja Halonen.[citation needed]
He was the president of the Nordic Council in 2008.[1]
Tuomioja comes from a family of politicians. His father Sakari Tuomioja was a prominent liberal Finnish politician and diplomat, and the challenger of Urho Kekkonen for the conservatives and liberals in the 1956 presidential elections. His maternal grandmother was Hella Wuolijoki, the Estonian born writer and socialist activist.[2]
Tuomioja holds the degrees of Master of Social Sciences (1971) and Master of Science in Economics and Business Administration (1974) from the Helsinki School of Economics, as well as Licentiate in Social Sciences (1980) and Doctor in Social Sciences (1996) from the University of Helsinki. In addition to Finnish, Tuomioja speaks Swedish, English, French, German and Estonian.[citation needed]
Tuomioja has been a member of the Finnish Parliament 1970–1979 and 1991–present. He held the position of Minister of Trade and Industry in Lipponen's 2nd government, and became the Minister for Foreign Affairs after Tarja Halonen was elected the President of Finland.[3]
Tuomioja, like several other Finnish socialist politicians of today, took part in the illegal occupation of the Old Student House (Vanha ylioppilastalo) in Helsinki on 25 November 1968. He was member of the anti-war group Committee of 100 of Finland and took part in the so-called Erik Schüller case, in which a group of students made public incitement against obligatory conscription. Despite his anti-war stance, Tuomioja did carry out his own mandatory military service and is a reservist sergeant.[citation needed]
Tuomioja is the author of several books. His A Delicate Shade of Pink about his grandmother Hella Wuolijoki and her sister Salme Murrik won the Non-Fiction Finlandia Prize in 2006. The book was originally written in English and translated to Finnish as Häivähdys punaista.[2]
Tuomioja is a declared atheist.[4]
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EU Presidency [edit]
When Finland held the rotating EU Presidency in the second half of 2006, Tuomioja had a prominent role as the spokesman of European Union foreign policy. He was among the first to demand an immediate cessation of hostilities in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict.[citation needed] He was one of Finland's most dominant politicians in the 1990s.
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References [edit]
- ^ "Nordisk Råds tidligere præsidenter — Nordisk samarbeid" (in (Norwegian)). Norden. Retrieved 2012-09-12.
- ^ a b Tuomioja, Erkki: Häivähdys punaista, s. 374. Kustannusosakeyhtiö Tammi, 2006. ISBN 951-31-3693-0 ISBN 978-951-31-3693-2.
- ^ "Eduskunta - kansanedustajat". Eduskunta. Retrieved 2012-09-12.
- ^ Tuomas Manninen (2008-01-04). "Ateisti Erkki Tuomioja: Teologit ulos yliopistosta! - Ilta-Sanomat". Iltasanomat. Retrieved 2012-09-12.
External links [edit]
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- Official website (partly in English) at the Finnish parliament
- Personal website
- Finland's EU Presidency
- Video interviews with Erkki Tuomioja
- Speeches and Articles by Dr. Erkki Tuomioja
- Dr. Erkki Tuomioja - The Role of Soft Power in EU Common Foreign Policy
| Preceded by Tarja Halonen |
Minister for Foreign Affairs (Finland) 25 February 2000 — 18 April 2007 |
Succeeded by Ilkka Kanerva |
| Preceded by Alexander Stubb |
Minister for Foreign Affairs (Finland) 22 June 2011 — |
Succeeded by |
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