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 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.

Reino Paasilinna was born on Aunus, a ship on the Arctic Ocean, on the coast of Norway, where the Paasilinna family fled during the Winter War.

The writers Erno, Mauri and Arto Paasilinna were his brothers.

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