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EU: new "third pillar" Commissioner

01 November 1994

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Among the new appointments to the European Commission is that of Anita Gradin, aged 61, from Sweden to Commissioner responsible for "third pillar" matters - policing, immigration and judicial cooperation (a new post). She worked in the Swedish government from 1967; between 1982-1986 she was Minister for Immigration, then Minister for Foreign Commercial Affairs, becoming the Swedish ambassador in Vienna in 1991. She is deputy chair of the Socialist International. During her period as Minister for Immigration there was controversy over the expulsion of Palestinians and the criminalising of PKK Kurdish people as terrorists - many were placed under municipal arrest on the advice of the Security Police.

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