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BRUSSELS, Nov. 27 (UPI) -- European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has named a Finn, a Spaniard and a Frenchman to key economic posts on his new team, the EU said Friday.
Barroso, one of 14 returning commissioners, put new faces in key places, calling his lineup a "perfect blend of experience and new thinking."
Finland's Olli Rehn, previously overseeing enlargement, has taken the economic monetary affairs portfolio, a post vacated by Spain's Joaquin Almunia who steps on to the equally important antitrust job.
France's Michel Barnier now heads the internal market dossier, including financial services, widely seen as a coup for Paris which had lobbied hard to get the post. France felt the previous holder of the post, Irishan Charlie
McCreevy was too market-liberal.
Some jobs do not appear to carry much weight, the EUobserver reports, among them the post for international relations and humanitarian aid.
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