Malin Anna Björk (born 22 May 1972) was a

Member of the European Parliament A member of the European Parliament (MEP) is a person who has been Election, elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament. When the European Parliament (then known as the Common Assembly of the European Coal and S ...

(MEP) of the Swedish Left Party an
The Left (GUE/NGL)
from 2014 to 2024. She was a full member of the parliament'
Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety
(ENVI) and a substitute member of th

(LIBE). She was the European Parliament's rapporteur on th
EU resettlement framework
In October 2017, he
proposal
to resettle around 240 000 refugees per year in the EU member states wa
approved
in the LIBE committee. Together with her colleague Eleonora Forenza, she is the author of
report on gender and trade
which calls for a more gender sensitive EU trade policy. The report was adopted in the FEMM Committee and th

in January 2018. Björk worked for several years for the

European Women's Lobby The European Women's Lobby (EWL) is the largest umbrella organization of women's non-governmental associations in Europe working for the interests of women and girls in all their diversity and gender equality in all areas of life. EWL was foun ...

in Brussels. In 2009, she took up a job as a political advisor in th
Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality
for the Committee's GUE/NGL coordinator

Eva-Britt Svensson Eva-Britt Svensson (born 5 December 1946 in Värnamo) is a Swedish politician and former Member of the European Parliament. She is a member of the Left Party. Svensson has been vice-chair of the GUE/NGL group, and chair of the European Parlia ...

.Vänsterpartiet skakar om EU-listan
''Dagens Nyhetar''. 12 January 2014 She was the Left Party's top candidate in the

2014 European Parliament election The 2014 European Parliament election was held in the European Union (EU) between 22 and 25 May 2014. It was the 8th parliamentary election since the first direct elections in 1979, and the first in which the European political parties field ...

after she narrowly won a fight for the position against incumbent MEP Mikael Gustafsson.Malin Björk (V)
Europaportalen.se.
Archived
at Webcitation.org.) She was elected as the sole member for the party. As a

feminist Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideology, ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social gender equality, equality of the sexes. Feminism holds the position that modern soci ...

, during the election campaign she focused on feminist issues as well as

anti-racism Anti-racism encompasses a range of ideas and political actions which are meant to counter racial prejudice, systemic racism, and the oppression of specific racial groups. Anti-racism is usually structured around conscious efforts and deliberate ...

LGBT rights Rights affecting lesbian, Gay men, gay, Bisexuality, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people vary greatly by country or jurisdiction—encompassing everything from the legal recognition of same-sex marriage to the Capital punishmen ...

, protection of welfare and workers' rights, and opposition to austerity policies. She seeks stronger measures against

social dumping Social dumping is a practice whereby employers use cheaper labour than is usually available at their site of production or sale, for example by moving production to a low-wage country or area, or employing poorly-paid migrant workers. Employers thu ...

, including overturning the principle of the ruling in the case ''

Laval Un Partneri Ltd v Svenska Byggnadsarbetareforbundet Laval means ''The Valley'' in old French and is the name of: People * House of Laval, a French noble family originating from the town of Laval, Mayenne * Laval (surname) Places Belgium * Laval, a village in the municipality of Sainte-Ode, Luxem ...

'',Malin Björk, Vänsterpartiet
Sveriges Radio. 12 April 2014 which held that the

right to strike Strike action, also called labor strike, labour strike in British English, or simply strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work. A strike usually takes place in response to employee grievances. Strikes became c ...

is limited if it disproportionately affected the right to establish or provide business in the EU. She opposes the proposal to create a

Transatlantic Free Trade Area A Transatlantic Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA) is a proposal to create a free-trade agreement covering Europe and North America, on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Such proposals have been made since the 1990s. Between 2013 and about 2017 an agr ...

. In April 2014, Björk refused to buckle her seat belt on board in a Swedish plane after she became aware that the plane would transport an

asylum seeker An asylum seeker is a person who leaves their country of residence, enters another country, and makes in that other country a formal application for the right of asylum according to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 14. A per ...

from Iran who was about to get deported. As a result, the man was transferred to another place.Kalle Wannerskog (10 April 2014
Flygpassagerare stoppade avvisning
Sveriges Radio. He was later granted a permanent residency permit in Sweden. She lives in Brussels with her partner and their two children.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bjork, Malin 1972 births Living people Left Party (Sweden) MEPs MEPs for Sweden 2014–2019 MEPs for Sweden 2019–2024 21st-century women MEPs for Sweden Politicians from Gothenburg