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Committee On European Union Affairs
The Committee on European Union Affairs ( sv, nämnden för Europeiska unionen, 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 Hans Wallmark 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 f ...
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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 ;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. ;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 was further regulated ...
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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 Chairman of SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) is an international institute based in Stockholm. It was founded in 1966 and provides data, analysis and recommendations for armed conflict, military expenditure and arms trade as well 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 Conflict and ...
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Jessika Roswall
Jessika Roswall ( Jessika Vilhelmsson; born 18 December 1972) is a Sweden, Swedish politician of the Moderate Party. She has served as Minister for EU Affairs (Sweden), Minister for European Union Affairs and Minister for Nordic Cooperation (Sweden), Minister for Nordic Cooperation in the Kristersson Cabinet, cabinet of Ulf Kristersson since 2022 and has been Member of the Riksdag since the 2010 Swedish general election, 2010 general election, representing Uppsala County (Riksdag constituency), Uppsala County. Early life and education Roswall is the daughter of the lawyer Anders Roswall; her mother is a teacher. She graduated from the high school in 1991. She studied history at Stockholm University in 1995–1997, and then moved to Uppsala to study the law at Uppsala University. She graduated in law (Master of Laws, LLM) in 2002. Early career After graduation, Roswall started working as a paralegal at the law firm ''Wigert & Placht''. She then became a lawyer, specializing in cri ...
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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) 21st-century Swedish politicians 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 ...
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Riksdag
The Riksdag (, ; also sv, riksdagen or ''Sveriges riksdag'' ) is the legislature and the supreme decision-making body of Sweden. Since 1971, the Riksdag has been a unicameral legislature with 349 members (), elected 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 ''Instrument of Government'' (), and its internal workings are specified in greater detail in the Riksdag Act ().Instrument of Government
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Ã…sa Westlund
Åsa Ingrid Gunilla Westlund (born 19 May 1976 in Anderstorp, Jönköping County, Småland, Sweden) is a Sweden, 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 (Sweden), 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, 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 Members of the Riksdag 2014–2018 Members of the Riksdag 2018–2022 Members of the Riksdag 2022–2026 Women members of the Riksdag Members of the Riksdag from the Social Democrats 21st-century Swedish women politicians { ...
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Jonas Eriksson (politiker Född 1967)
Jonas Eriksson may refer to: * Jonas Eriksson (biathlete) (born 1970), Swedish Olympic biathlon competitor * Jonas Eriksson (referee) Jonas Eriksson (born 28 March 1974) is a Swedish former football referee. He was a full international referee for FIFA between 2002 and 2018.. Career Eriksson became a professional referee in 1994 and has been an Allsvenskan referee since ... (born 1974), Swedish football referee * Jonas Eriksson (politician) (born 1967), Swedish politician {{hndis, Eriksson, Jonas ...
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Ã…sa Romson
Ã…sa Elisabeth Romson (born 22 March 1972) is a Swedes, Swedish politician who was the Minister for the Environment (Sweden), 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 (Sweden), 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 (Sweden), 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 Swedish general election, 2010 election she has been a spokesperson for environmental and climate policy. She has been a member of parliament, member of the Riksdag, Swedish parliament since the 2010 Swedish general election, 2010 election. On 29 March 2011, she was nominated as one of the candidat ...
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Green Party (Sweden)
The Green Party ( sv, Miljöpartiet de gröna, lit=Environmental Party the Greens, commonly referred to in Swedish as Miljöpartiet or MP) is a political party in Sweden based on green politics. . Sparked by the anti-nuclear power movement following the 1980 nuclear power referendum, the party was founded in 1981 out of a discontent with the existing parties' environmental policies. In 1988 general election they won seats in the 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 threshold. In 1994, they returned to parliament again and since have retained representation there. The party is represented nationally by two spokespeople, always one man and one woman. These roles are currently held by Per Bolund and Märta Stenevi. Between 3 October 2014 and 30 November 2021, the Green Party was a part of the Social Democratic led gover ...
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Carl Schlyter
Carl Schlyter (born 7 January 1968 in Danderyd, Stockholm County) is a Swedish politician who has been a 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, which is part of the European Greens, and sat on the European Parliament's 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 would be leaving the Green Party due to his disagreements with the Social Democrats regarding the 2018-19 government formation. On 13 February, he stated that he wo ...
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Allan Widman
Allan Widman (born 1964) is a Swedish Liberal People's Party politician, member of the Riksdag The Riksdag (, ; also sv, riksdagen or ''Sveriges riksdag'' ) is the legislature and the supreme decision-making body of Sweden. Since 1971, the Riksdag has been a unicameral legislature with 349 members (), elected proportionally and se ... since 2002. References 1964 births 21st-century Swedish politicians Living people Members of the Riksdag 2002–2006 Members of the Riksdag 2006–2010 Members of the Riksdag 2010–2014 Members of the Riksdag 2014–2018 Members of the Riksdag 2018–2022 Members of the Riksdag from the Liberals (Sweden) {{Sweden-LiberalPeople-politician-stub ...
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Liberals (Sweden)
The Liberals ( sv, Liberalerna, L), known as the Liberal People's Party ( sv, Folkpartiet liberalerna) until 22 November 2015, is a conservative liberal political party in Sweden. The Liberals ideologically have shown a broad variety of liberal tendencies. Currently they are seen as following classical liberalism and economic liberalism. The party is a member of the Liberal International and Renew Europe. Historically the party was positioned in the centre of the Swedish political landscape, willing to cooperate with both the political left and the right. It has since the leaderships of Lars Leijonborg and Jan Björklund in the 2000s positioned itself more towards the right. It was a part of the Alliance centre-right coalition government led by Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt from 2006 to 2014. The party's policies include action toward a free market economy and pushing for Sweden to join NATO and the Eurozone, as well as investing in nuclear power; it also focuses on gender ...
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