Representative
Member of the Riksdag
Sweden Democrats
Sveriges Riksdag
SE - 100 12 - Stockholm
Sweden
Working language: English
28/01/2021 | 13:31:00 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2) Mr President, When people in the United States, and the world, think of the events of January 6th this year, they think of the outrageous and tragic storming of the Capitol building in Washington DC. A clear attack on the heart of American democracy. But many also think of what happened in the attack’s aftermath. I refer to the closure of social media platforms by Big Tech companies - among them Facebook, Twitter and YouTube - against people... 30/01/2020 | 10:52:55 Mr President, We're now debating a very important issue and the path that our member states choose to take in this matter will change our societies. The basic plea made in the report as to, as soon as possible and without hesitation, take care of especially children of Islamic State terrorists and to move them out of squalid camps in Syria and Iraq to European countries. However, international conventions prohibit children from being separated from their parents. At the same time, if a parent... 25/06/2019 | 16:36:12 Madam President, It is of extreme importance for the future of our societies that the Istanbul Convention on violence against women is successfully implemented across Europe. For if we cannot stop the present dramatic rise in the physical, mental and social abuse of so many women, then our western civilisation will not endure for long, based as it is on human rights and equality - including between the sexes. My own country, Sweden, got its first laws protecting women over 700 years ago, in... 22/01/2019 | 19:19:21 I am heartened by the fact that our Assembly is addressing one of the most burning issues of our time – namely, whether the growing practice of Sharia in Europe is compatible with the cornerstone of European and Western civilisation, the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. I am impressed by how fairly the rapporteur, Mr Gutiérrez, and our Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights scrutinised the European Convention on Human Rights and the Cairo... 22/01/2019 | 17:39:18 For a long time, the international community stood helpless when it was confronted with flagrant cases of human rights violations inflicted on so-called whistleblowers, the people whose only action had been to report crimes they had witnessed to the authorities. Meanwhile, the people who were guilty of those crimes or stood to benefit from them went unpunished, while the whistleblowers were to be punished. The Sergei Magnitsky case of 2009 and its follow-up, admirably dealt with in the report...
15/02/2021 | Doc. 15063 | Written declaration The members of national delegations signing this declaration regret the approval, by the Assembly, of the credentials submitted by the Russian Federation 01/09/2020 | Doc. 15130 | Motion for a resolution Call for an inclusive national political process in Belarus 01/09/2020 | Doc. 15131 | Motion for a resolution Urgent need for electoral reform in Belarus 05/02/2020 | Doc. 15078 | Motion for a resolution Food ethics in Europe: a citizen's issue that concerns all of us 31/01/2020 | Doc. 15063 | Written declaration The members of national delegations signing this declaration regret the approval, by the Assembly, of the credentials submitted by the Russian Federation
28/01/2021 | Doc. 15216, vote on the draft text for resolution Challenge, on substantive grounds, of the still unratified credentials of the parliamentary delegation of the Russian Federation 28/01/2021 | Doc. 15199, vote on the draft text for resolution Ethnic profiling in Europe: a matter of great concern 27/01/2021 | Doc. 15212, vote on the draft text for resolution Covid-19 vaccines: ethical, legal and practical considerations 27/01/2021 | Doc. 15205, vote on the draft text for resolution Restrictions on NGO activities in Council of Europe member States 27/01/2021 | Doc. 15205, vote on the draft text for recommendation Restrictions on NGO activities in Council of Europe member States