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May

2025

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EU support for a just, sustainable and comprehensive peace in Ukraine (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. Since Russia started its invasion of Ukraine, the EU has shown strength together. We acted quickly and we did so with severe sanctions. But we are now at a critical juncture. Europe is buying Russian oil and gas for more money than we are providing in support of Ukraine. Europe should not fertilize Putin's war fund and we should not buy fossil energy. We have to …

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May

2025

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The European Water Resilience Strategy (debate)

Madam President, thank you very much. Clean water is a right, not a privilege, but today it is threatened by climate change, pollution and a lack of political courage. In our Europe, every child and every family should be able to trust that the water in the tap is actually clean and safe – thank you to our rapporteur, Bajada, who has worked hard for this. That is why we need to invest in modern wa…

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Apr

2025

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EU Preparedness Union Strategy (debate)

Madam President, thank you very much. Commissioner Lahbib. Yes, when crises hit us, it is always the most vulnerable who are hit first. Women and children are the victims of brutal violence. We see it, for example, in Ukraine, where thousands, tens of thousands of children have been kidnapped. And behind every number is a child with a name and a story. A child whose hopes and dreams have been shat…

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Mar

2025

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100 days of the new Commission – Delivering on defence, competitiveness, simplification and migration as our priorities (topical debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. Europe is in a very serious situation, and I see two existential threats globally. It is about our peace and freedom and about our survival, and therefore it is about both security and our climate. The way forward is therefore that we in Europe strengthen our own security, our defence, while pursuing the green transition. It is not possible as the right wants, to…

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Mar

2025

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Roadmap for Women`s Rights (debate)

Thanks for the question. Your colleague sitting next to you, Timgren, was standing right in the pulpit talking about the fact that in Sweden only foreign-born men rape women. And then my question is back: Are you so naive that you do not see that there is constant oppression of girls and women's rights, regardless of which men and boys we are talking about? We have to deal with this. We must stand…

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Mar

2025

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Roadmap for Women`s Rights (debate)

Madam President, thank you very much. Women's and girls' rights are under attack. In one of four countries, progress has turned into setbacks. A Roadmap for Women's Rights is a welcome step forward with several important actions, with rights that we fought for. But it is also a reminder that women's freedom is constantly being questioned. whereas the right to safe and legal abortion remains contro…

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Feb

2025

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US withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, the World Health Organisation and the suspension of US development and humanitarian aid (debate)

Madam President, I would like to thank you for your The fact that Trump and the United States were leaving the Paris Agreement could not have come as a surprise to anyone. Trump's statement "drill, baby, drill" now affects the entire world. Fossil energy will flow and international efforts for sustainability and humanitarian action will be dismantled in the United States. This is exactly why the E…

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Feb

2025

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Collaboration between conservatives and far right as a threat for competitiveness in the EU (topical debate)

Mr President, I would like to thank you. The Green Deal was a project for the future during the last parliamentary term. Then we stood together in the broad middle and the right-wing climate deniers stood outside. In my country, Sweden, the right-wing extremists went to elections to tear up climate legislation, and now we are risking it. If we reverse the green transition, we risk missing the clim…

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Feb

2025

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Commission Work Programme 2025 (debate)

Madam President, President von der Leyen should be here. Madam President, I would like to thank you for your The Commission presents the most important documents of the year and the President does not have time to come to Parliament. Could it possibly be because the Commission's programme is difficult to defend today? There's a lot missing. Where did the green transition come from? Where did inves…

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Feb

2025

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Situation in Sweden in the midst of the recent mass shooting in Örebro (debate)

Mr President, I would like to thank you. A regular Tuesday at a regular school in Sweden, a training center for adults. So this ordinary day turns into one of the darkest days in Sweden's history. A Swedish young man shoots recklessly inside a school. Han dödar tio människor, flera av dem med utländsk bakgrund. Today, after this mass murder, many people with other backgrounds in Sweden feel fear a…

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Jan

2025

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Failure of the negotiations in Busan for a UN plastic treaty and the urgent need to tackle plastic pollution at international and Union level (debate)

Madam President, I would like to thank you for your Commission and Council! 2024 was the year when we would finally get a globally binding plastics agreement. A deal that both we and our oceans so badly need, but the deal never came to fruition. Our daily lives are still filled with a lot of plastic items. Millions of tonnes of plastic end up in our environment, in our oceans every year, every day…

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Jan

2025

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Need to detect and to counter sabotage by the Russian shadow fleet, damaging critical undersea infrastructure in the Baltic Sea (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. The Commission and the Council! In recent months, we have seen a growing threat and damage to submarine cables in the Baltic Sea. I come from Sweden, and I live with my family on the Baltic coast. We know that we are particularly vulnerable to the Russian shadow fleet, because about half of all Russian oil exports pass through our waters. This creates major envir…

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Jan

2025

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Heat record year 2024 - the need for climate action to fight global warming (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. Commissioner, thank you very much. 2024 was the warmest year ever. It's not just statistics, it's a reality that affects all of us here and now. Higher temperatures, heatwaves, fires, extreme weather that kills people and destroys our ecosystems. My home country, Sweden, has long been a role model when it comes to climate and the environment, but that is no longe…

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Dec

2024

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Situation of female politicians in EU candidate and neighbouring countries facing harassment and cyber violence (debate)

Mr President, I would like to thank you. In the heart of democracy, threats and violence should never silence women. But in our neighbourhood and in candidate countries, we see female politicians being subjected to harassment and cyber violence. This is nothing more than a democratic failure. Parliaments should be role models for gender equality, not arenas for sexism. This is also the case here i…

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Dec

2024

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Russia’s disinformation and historical falsification to justify its war of aggression against Ukraine (debate)

Madam President, I would like to thank you for your Russia’s war against Ukraine is not just a brutal attack on a sovereign state and people. It is also an attack on the truth. Because through disinformation and falsification of history, Russia is trying to justify its vile war against Ukraine and create divisions in Europe. But we must not allow ourselves to be deceived. The story is clear. Ukrai…

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Nov

2024

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Strengthening children’s rights in the EU - 35th anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (debate)

Madam President, I would like to thank you for your Children are not just our future – they are our present. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child has changed children's lives. In my Sweden, the Convention on the Rights of the Child is Swedish law, but major challenges remain. Today, one in four children in the EU is at risk of poverty. It means lack of good health, schooling and meaningful…

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Nov

2024

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Presentation by the President-elect of the Commission of the College of Commissioners and its programme (debate)

Madam President, I would like to thank you for your The next five years here in the European Parliament will certainly be a challenge, as is already apparent in the run-up to today's election of the Commission. It is a provocation that President von der Leyen is proposing a far-right candidate from Italy to be her Vice-President. We risk a weaker Commission than the previous one. For us Swedish So…

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Nov

2024

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Urgent need to tackle the gender pay gap (debate)

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Nov

2024

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Reinforcing EU’s unwavering support to Ukraine against Russia’s war of aggression and the increasing military cooperation between North Korea and Russia (debate)

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Nov

2024

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International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (debate)

Mr President, I would like to thank you. One in three women in the world suffers physical or sexual violence during their lifetime. This is not news, yet we are not doing enough to put an end to this. Orange Day It is therefore an important day in which we pay attention to this pandemic of violence. The EU has taken important steps forward. The historic first law against men's violence against wom…

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Oct

2024

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Closing the EU skills gap: supporting people in the digital and green transitions to ensure inclusive growth and competitiveness in line with the Draghi report (debate)

Mr President, I would like to thank you. The green transition is not just about industry becoming sustainable, vehicles becoming environmentally friendly and households becoming waste sorting experts. We must also invest in our own skills. The knowledge gap can be fatal at a critical time. If the EU wants to take real responsibility for the green transition, we need to continue to raise our ambiti…

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Oct

2024

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EU actions against the Russian shadow fleets and ensuring a full enforcement of sanctions against Russia (debate)

Madam President, I would like to thank you for your In Sweden, we are particularly vulnerable to the Russian shadow fleet. I live on the coast of the Baltic Sea myself, and we know that about half of all Russian oil exports are made through our waters by old and rusty ships. In order to conceal the origin of oil, it is often transferred between vessels on the high seas. There are major risks that …

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Oct

2024

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Findings of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on Poland's abortion law (debate)

Madam President, I would like to thank you for your We know that in Poland the right to abortion has been dismantled step by step, and today it is practically forbidden for girls and women to have a legal and safe abortion. We know that it also affects women where pregnancy is the result of rape. This is completely absurd. We Social Democrats have always defended the right to abortion and we will …

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Oct

2024

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Establishing the Ukraine Loan Cooperation Mechanism and providing exceptional macro-financial assistance to Ukraine (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. My response to Dick Erixon, who represents the Sweden Democrats from Sweden and the far-right party groups in this Parliament, is that I am more worried about your parties' contacts with Russia and proximity to Putin, and I want to follow closely that we stand united tomorrow around continued support for Ukraine, both financially, militarily and humanitarianly.…

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Oct

2024

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Establishing the Ukraine Loan Cooperation Mechanism and providing exceptional macro-financial assistance to Ukraine (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. The war in Ukraine is going on here and now. When we meet here today, bombs and rockets fall on innocent people – on women and children in their own homes. The Ukrainian people are suffering but fighting for their freedom and we, we must continue to do everything we can to increase support for Ukraine: economic, military and humanitarian. We also need to stop Rus…