Reino Paasilinna

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Reino Paasilinna MEP
Member of the European Parliament
In office 1996–2009
Personal details
Born	(1939-12-05)5 December 1939 Arctic Ocean
Died	21 July 2022(2022-07-21) (aged 82) Helsinki, Finland

Reino Paasilinna (5 December 1939 – 21 July 2022)^[1] was a Finnish politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP). He was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Finland, which is part of the Party of European Socialdemocrats. He was in the European Parliament from 1996 to 2009, and sat on the Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy.

He was also a substitute for the Committee on Culture and Education, vice-chair of the delegation to the EU–Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee, and a substitute for the delegation for relations with the countries of Central America.