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Jasenko Selimović
Jasenko Selimović (born 1 January 1968) is a Bosnian-born Swedish director, artistic director, writer and politician representing the Liberal People's Party. He was a Member of the European Parliament from 2015 until 2019. Biography Culture Selimović was educated at the academy of creative arts in Sarajevo and at the Dramatic Institute in Stockholm. He fled from the war in Bosnia in 1992. After a period at the Uppsala City Theatre, where he set up the play ''Pingst ''(Pentecost), he was engaged as a director at the Gothenburg City Theatre and in 1998 was appointed artistic director. That same year, his play ''1948 ''premiered at Backa Theatre. He put up in 2003 Sophocles' ''Antigone''at the Swedish Royal Dramatic Theatre. In the summer of 2004 he was the host of SVT's talk show'' Allvarligt talat''. He has received a number of theater prices, the ''Svenska Dagbladets Thaliapris '' in 2000 and'' Expressens teaterpris ''in 1997. He was named Gothenburger of the year in 1999 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
European Parliament
The European Parliament (EP) is one of the two legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions. Together with the Council of the European Union (known as the Council and informally as the Council of Ministers), it adopts European legislation, following a proposal by the European Commission. The Parliament is composed of 720 members (MEPs), after the June 2024 European elections, from a previous 705 MEPs. It represents the second-largest democratic electorate in the world (after the Parliament of India), with an electorate of around 375 million eligible voters in 2024. Since 1979, the Parliament has been directly elected every five years by the citizens of the European Union through universal suffrage. Voter turnout in parliamentary elections decreased each time after 1979 until 2019, when voter turnout increased by eight percentage points, and rose above 50% for the first time since 1994. The voting age is 18 in all EU member states e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erik Ullenhag
Erik Jörgen Carl Ullenhag (born 20 July 1972, in Uppsala) is a Swedish politician and diplomat who is currently serving as Consul General of Sweden to New York City since 2024. Ullenhag served as Minister for Integration from 2010 to 2014 and was party secretary for the Liberal People's Party from 2006 to 2010 and parliamentary group leader of his party in the 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 rep ... from 2014 to 2016. He was Ambassador of the Kingdom of Sweden to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan from 2016 to 2020. Erik Ullenhag is the son of politician Jörgen Ullenhag. References External links Erik Ullenhagat the Liberal People's Party website Erik Ullenhagat the Riksdag website 1972 births Living people Members of the Riksdag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
