They mounted a well-supported one-day strike in April, and Mr Liikanen had to retreat.
Last year Mr Liikanen signed an agreement with the Belgian government to renovate, reoccupy and eventually to purchase the building.
"The year 2000 was the year of real breakthrough of Internet in Europe, " said Erkki Liikanen, commissioner for the information society.
Which prompts the thought: how nice if Mr Liikanen and his architects could redesign some other elements of the Union along similar lines.
In addition to the budget, Mr Liikanen looks after the commission's administration and personnel, a patrimony amounting to some 14, 000 civil servants and 60 office blocks.
Erkki Liikanen, the Finnish commissioner, was allotted the budget portfolio, and with it a chance to knock some rigour into the commission's financial planning and financial controls.
Erkki Liikanen, the European Commissioner overseeing the move, had told MEPs fragmented information available on the internet not only discriminated against non-English speakers but could also be piecemeal and unreliable.
"The Love Bug is a warning to us all that security must be given top priority if consumer and user confidence is to be maintained as we move into the information age, " IT commissioner Erkki Liikanen said.
For those in Brussels outside the commission's employ, the most obvious sign of Mr Liikanen's efforts will come with the unwrapping one day of the Berlaymont building, the commission's former home on the east side of the city centre.
Other survivors from the old commission, which was cajoled into resigning en masse in March after a report exposed cronyism and incompetence, include Mario Monti, the Italian responsible for taxation and the single market and respected in financial circles, and Erkki Liikanen, a Finnish socialist who has tried to bring some Nordic rigour to the commission's housekeeping.
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