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Paavo Matti Vyrynen is a Finnish veteran politician of the Centre Party. Vyrynen was a member of the Finnish Parliament from 1970 to 1995 and again from 2007 to 2011 and has held many ministerial portfolios. He has also been a Member of the European Parliament from 1995 to 2007, and again since 2014. Vyrynen has been the Centre Party candidate for Finnish president three times finishing second in 1988, third in 1994 and third in 2012.
Paavo Vyrynen was born in a farmer family in Keminmaa, southwest Lapland. After finishing his gymnasium he graduated in 1970 as a Bachelor of Social Sciences in the University of Helsinki. In Vyrynens doctoral thesis in 1988, Finlands utrikespolitik den nationella doktrinen och framtidens mnsklighetspolitik , he made an assumption that the Soviet Union would prevail an assumption which has ever since haunted him in the media. In 1996, Vyrynen was granted docentship of International Relations in University of Lapland.
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