Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen says that the Finnish govenment will continue to lobby for an important new portfolio for EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn, but it is unlikely that he will get the new EU "foreign minister's" post. In an interview in the newspaper Länsi-Savo and Itä-Savo, Vanhanen said that as a centrist, Rehn's chances to gain the new EU external affairs post have weakened of late.