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European Union Affairs Committee
The Committee on European Union Affairs (, also called ''EU-nämnden'') is a governmental body in the Swedish Riksdag, where the Riksdag and the Swedish Government consult matters and issues about the European Union (EU). In the EU Committee, Sweden's negotiating position is determined prior to a meeting between the European Council and the Council of the European Union. The Speaker of the committee is currently Erik Ottoson from the Moderate Party, along with vice-Speaker Matilda Ernkrans from the Social Democrats. History In June 1994, a proposal was adopted in the Riksdag for forms of co-operation between the Riksdag and the Government on EU issues,Så arbetar EU-nämnden ''riksdagen.se'' among other things, a proposal for a principle was adopted on the est ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parliamentary Committees In The Riksdag
There are fifteen parliamentary committees in the Riksdag, Sweden's parliament. Each committee is made up of seventeen elected MPs, with at least one member from each political party. Additionally, the committee on EU Affairs, while not one of the standing committees, has a similar role. Current committees ;Committee on Civil Affairs :The Committee on Civil Affairs was formed on 1 October 2006. This committee overtook issues that were previously handled by the Committee on Civil Law and the Committee on Housing. Currently the committee is chaired by Emma Hult of the Green Party, and as vice-Speaker Larry Söder of the Christian Democrats. ;Committee on the Constitution :The first Committee on the Constitution was established in the Riksdag of the Estates in May 1809. The committee played a decisive role in bringing about a new Instrument of Government, which was adopted on 6 June 1809. The existence of a Committee on the Constitution and other parliamentary committees ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Göran Lennmarker
Rolf Göran Lennmarker (born 7 December 1943 in Norberg, Västmanland County) is a Swedish moderate politician who has been a member of the Riksdag from 1991 to 2010. From 2006 until 2010 he was the Chair of the Riksdag's Committee on Foreign Affairs. In 2006 he briefly also was Chair of the Committee on EU Affairs. He is the former Chairman of SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) is an international institute based in Stockholm, Sweden. It was founded in 1966 and provides data, analysis and recommendations for armed conflict, military expenditure and arms trade a ...)'s Governing Board and the chairman of the Jarl Hjalmarson Foundation. He has been a member of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly since 1995. He was elected President of the Assembly in 2006 and in 2007 and nominated President Emeritus in 2008. Lennmarker has also acted as the Assembly's Special Representative on the Nagorno Karabakh Con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessika Roswall
Jessika Roswall (born Vilhelmsson, 18 December 1972) is a Swedish politician of the Moderate Party. She serves as European Commissioner for Environment, Water Resilience and a Competitive Circular Economy and Swedish European Commissioner since 1 December 2024. She served as Minister for European Union Affairs and Minister for Nordic Cooperation in the cabinet of Ulf Kristersson from 2022 to 2024. She was also a member of parliament from the 2010 general election to 2024, representing Uppsala County. Early life and education Roswall is the daughter of lawyer Anders Roswall; her mother is a teacher. She graduated from high school in 1991 and studied history at Stockholm University in 1995–1997. She moved to Uppsala to study law at Uppsala University and graduated in law (LLM) in 2002. Career After graduation, Roswall started working as a paralegal at the law firm ''Wigert & Placht''. She then became a lawyer, specializing in criminal and family law.  At the same time, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pyry Niemi
Pyry Niemi (born 1965) is a Swedish politician. he serves as Member of the Riksdag representing the constituency of Uppsala County. He is of Finnish descent and is fluent in Finnish. He serves as the President of the Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference The Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference (BSPC) was established in 1991 as a forum for political dialogue between parliamentarians from the Baltic Sea Region. BSPC aims at raising awareness and opinion on issues of current political interest and ... 2020-2021. He previously worked as a sales manager. References Living people 1965 births Place of birth missing (living people) Members of the Riksdag 2010–2014 Members of the Riksdag 2014–2018 Members of the Riksdag 2018–2022 Members of the Riksdag from the Social Democrats {{Sweden-SocialDemocratic-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riksdag
The Riksdag ( , ; also or , ) is the parliament and the parliamentary sovereignty, supreme decision-making body of the Kingdom of Sweden. Since 1971, the Riksdag has been a unicameral parliament with 349 members (), elected proportional representation, proportionally and serving, since 1994, fixed four-year terms. The 2022 Swedish general election is the most recent general election. The constitutional mandates of the Riksdag are enumerated in the ''Basic Laws of Sweden#Instrument of Government, Instrument of Government'' (), and its internal workings are specified in greater detail in the Riksdag Act ().Instrument of Government as of 2012. Retrieved on 16 November 2012. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ã…sa Westlund
Åsa Ingrid Gunilla Westlund (born 19 May 1976 in Anderstorp, Jönköping County, Småland, Sweden) is a Swedish politician who has been Member of the Riksdag since 2014, representing Stockholm County. In the Riksdag, she is chairman of the Committee on Finance since 2020. She was previously a Member of the European Parliament for the Swedish Social Democratic Party, part of the Party of European Socialists The Party of European Socialists (PES) is a Social democracy, social democratic European political party. The PES comprises national-level political parties from all the European Economic Area, European economic area states (EEA) plus the Unit ..., from 2004 to 2014. References External links *Åsa Westlund at the Social Democratic Party 1976 births Living people People from Gislaved Municipality Swedish Social Democratic Party MEPs MEPs for Sweden 2004–2009 MEPs for Sweden 2009–2014 21st-century women MEPs for Sweden Swedish women bloggers Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonas Eriksson (politician)
Mats Jonas Eriksson (born 1967) is a Swedish politician, teacher and former member of the Riksdag, the national legislature. A member of the Green Party, he represented Örebro County between October 2010 and November 2019. He was leader of the Green Group in the Riksdag five times: from January 2015 to March 2015; from May 2015 to December 2015; from November 2016 to January 2018; from September 2018 to February 2019; and from July 2019 to November 2019. Eriksson is the son of businessman Roger Eriksson and nurse Bodil Eriksson (née Danielsson). He was educated in Örebro and has degrees in mathematics, physics and religion; business administration and law; and teaching. He was a teacher in Lindesberg Municipality from 1989 to 1996 and in Örebro Municipality Örebro Municipality () is a municipality in Örebro County in central Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Örebro. The municipality was created from the ''City of Örebro'' and surrounding rural municipalities i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ã…sa Romson
Ã…sa Elisabeth Romson (born 22 March 1972) is a Swedish politician who was the Minister for the Environment and ceremonial Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden in the Swedish Government from 2014 to 2016. She is a member of the Green Party and served as one of its spokespersons along with Gustav Fridolin between 2011 and 2016. In 2012, Romson completed a doctorate in environmental law at Stockholm University. Political career In the late 1990s, she was a member of the Green Party and the Young Greens of Sweden. Between 2002 and 2010, she was a member of the city council in Stockholm. Since the 2010 election she has been a spokesperson for environmental and climate policy. She has been a member of the Swedish parliament since the 2010 election. On 29 March 2011, she was nominated as one of the candidates to be the Green Party's new spokesperson, together with Gustav Fridolin. They were elected on 21 May 2011. She started serving as the Minister for the Environment and Depu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Green Party (Sweden)
The Green Party (, , MP), commonly referred to as in Swedish, is a list of political parties in Sweden, political party in Sweden based on green politics. Sparked by the anti-nuclear power movement following the 1980 Swedish nuclear power referendum, 1980 nuclear power referendum, the party was founded in 1981 out of a discontent with the existing parties' environmental policies. In the 1988 Swedish general election, 1988 general election, they won seats in the Riksdag (Sweden), Swedish Riksdag for the first time, capturing 5.5 percent of the vote, and becoming the first new party to enter parliament in seventy years. Three years later, they dropped back below the 4 percent election threshold, threshold. In 1994, they returned to parliament and have since retained representation there. The party is represented nationally by two spokespeople, always one man and one woman. These roles are currently held by Amanda Lind and Daniel Helldén. Between 3 October 2014 and 30 November 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Schlyter
Carl Schlyter (born 7 January 1968 in Danderyd Municipality, Danderyd, Stockholm County) is a Politics of Sweden, Swedish politician who has been a Member of Parliament, member of the Swedish Riksdag for Stockholm County since 2014. He was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2004 to 2014. He is a member of the Green Party (Sweden), Green Party, which is part of the European Greens, and sat on the European Parliament's European Parliament Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. He is a member of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly. He was also a substitute for the Committee on Budgetary Control and the Committee on Fisheries, and a substitute for the delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Leaving Miljöpartiet and starting up a new party called Partiet Vändpunkt On 16 January 2019, Schlyter announced that he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
