Riikka Pakarinen (née Pakarinen, formerly Manner; born August 24, 1981, in

Varkaus Varkaus, before 1929 known as Warkaus, is a Middle- Savonian industrial town and municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Eastern Finland and is part of the Northern Savonia region, between the city of Kuopio and the town of ...

Finland Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, ...

) is a Finnish politician who served as a

Member of the European Parliament A member of the European Parliament (MEP) is a person who has been Election, elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament. When the European Parliament (then known as the Common Assembly of the European Coal and S ...

from 2009 until 2014. She represents the Centre Party. She was elected to the

city council in 2008. She has worked as a press assistant to , , and

Paavo Väyrynen Paavo Matti Väyrynen (; born 2 September 1946) is a Finland, Finnish Politics of Finland, politician who has served, among other things, as Minister for Foreign Affairs (Finland), Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1977 to 1982, and again from 198 ...

. In 2009, she was elected to the European Parliament.

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* 1981 births Living people People from Varkaus Centre Party (Finland) politicians Centre Party (Finland) MEPs MEPs for Finland 2009–2014 21st-century women MEPs for Finland {{Finland-MEP-stub