What Alice spoke about.

7 Jul

2026

SV Speech

2025 Commission report on Ukraine (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. I was asked this question by a journalist earlier today, a Polish journalist. He asked if we really have a problem with Putin's influence here in the European Parliament and among the Member States. Having listened to several of you today, it is easy to conclude that we have a problem. I can also say that it is a disgrace that many of you are expressing. We have …

17 Jun

2026

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Protecting children’s safety and mental health from the risks posed by social media – our duty to act now (debate)

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Madam President, thank you very much. For every minute your child is stuck in front of the mobile screen, tech billionaires make more money. While they're flying private jets, our children's childhoods are flying by behind the screen. The warnings are clear: The harm to children's mental health, sleep and safety comes from conscious design choices in the social media apps. It's done to create addi…

28 Apr

2026

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Situation of fundamental rights in the European Union in 2024 and 2025 (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Orban has been voted out. It shows that authoritarian forces can be stopped. But the threats to freedom and democracy in Europe are not gone. On the contrary. Minorities are being pushed out. Legal certainty is undermined. The right to decide over our own bodies is challenged and civil society is under pressure. War, abuse of power and attacks on free media are e…

27 Apr

2026

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Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Anything that is not a yes is a no. It should be obvious, but time and time again rapists go free. That is unacceptable. It is also unacceptable that the Sweden Democrats do not stand up for our Swedish legislation being the right one, but instead vote against all women in the EU having the same rights as Swedish women have. A European law on consent is crucial f…

11 Mar

2026

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EUCO and situation in the Middle East (joint debate)

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11 Feb

2026

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Systemic oppression, inhumane conditions and arbitrary detentions by the regime in Iran

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Mr President, thank you very much. "Dad, I'm burning!" It was a young woman's words in her father's arms, her last words after the regime's security forces had shot her. "Don't shoot us!" shouted another woman, before she was met with bullets. Shot wounded, she did not dare to go to hospital, as injured protesters are arrested there and abducted by security forces and never come back. Doctors and …

11 Feb

2026

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State violence in Minneapolis and the rule of law in the United States (topical debate)

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Madam President, thank you very much. Masked men abduct children from their parents, chase and attack people in the open street. The racist and deadly violence by Trump's lackeys in ICE is unacceptable, but also a warning bell. Around the EU, far-right forces have praised ICE's efforts, and the Sweden Democrats Youth Association wants a similar organisation in Sweden. We must learn from what is ha…

10 Feb

2026

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European response to the attacks on the Ukrainian energy system causing a humanitarian crisis (debate)

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20 Jan

2026

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Brutal repression against protesters in Iran (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. No one should have to open body bag after body bag, lined up in hundreds, to find their dead brother or sister. No one should be shot in the street or tortured to death for the dream of freedom. The price paid by Iran's brave people is unbelievable. So also the fears and worries of the many Swedish Iranians and others who have not managed to make contact with the…

17 Dec

2025

EN Speech

The urgent need to combat discrimination in the EU through the horizontal anti-discrimination directive (topical debate)

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Mr President, we speak endlessly of competitiveness in this mandate, yet equal treatment, fundamental rights and democracy are treated as secondary, delayed, compromised or quietly dismantled. This is not only dangerous, it is also expensive. I often speak here about justice, dignity and solidarity, but I've heard that money talks, so today I will for once try to speak this language. Colleagues, w…

16 Dec

2025

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Condemnation of the terrorist attack against the Hanukkah celebrations in Sydney and solidarity with the victims and their families (debate)

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Mr President, Rabbis for Human Rights write: 'Hanukkah teaches us that light is not passive. It is an act of courage. In moments of fear, violence and injustice, we are called not to retreat into silence, but to increase the light through compassion, solidarity and an unwavering commitment to human dignity and the sanctity of every life.' On the beach where families were celebrating light and mira…

16 Dec

2025

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European Citizens’ Initiative ‘My voice, my choice: for safe and accessible abortion’ (debate)

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Mr President, let me put it plainly. Many men in this Chamber would never accept anyone else legislating their bodies, and women should not have to accept it either. That freedom – her freedom – is what we protect when we vote for 'My voice, my choice', supported by more than 1 million Europeans. A woman's body must never be a political battleground. Yet 20 million people in our Union still lack a…

25 Nov

2025

SV Speech

Protection of minors online (debate)

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Madam President, thank you very much. Often for over six hours a day, so long are many of our children and young people in the hands of Musk, Zuckerberg, the Chinese regime and other irresponsible tech giants, whose big goal is to get our children and us adults stuck in their addictive web. On their platforms, ridicule and hatred spread faster than hope, lies faster than truth. The EU is the only …

23 Oct

2025

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Combating violence against women and girls, including the exploitation of motherhood (debate)

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Madam President, thank you very much. ‘Grab “em by the pussy!’ So the most powerful man in the world boasted and got away with it. Our sons' phones are filled every day with voices glorifying men's violence and domination over women. At the same time, I read about the mother of three in Västerås who was stabbed 35 times by her partner in front of her children. Globally, 140 women and girls are kil…

22 Oct

2025

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The need for a united support to Ukraine and for a just and durable peace concluded on Ukraine's terms, with Europeans and without surrendering to Vladimir Putin's conditions ahead of the foreseen Budapest summit (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Putin has wrapped the as self-absorbed as unreliable Trump around his little finger. And it threatens not only the existence of Ukraine, but the security of Europe as a whole. We have to make up our minds. Are we prepared to do whatever it takes to defend Ukraine's freedom? Or are we going to keep pretending that we've done everything we can? That is not true. Ev…

9 Oct

2025

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Declaration of principles for a gender-equal society (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. There is often a lot of talk about equality. At the same time, the very movements that make gender equality real are attacked and suspected: the women's shelters, which give shelter and a warm embrace when the patriarchy shows its dirtiest face, the abortion rights organizations, which despite murder threats, prison sentences and attacks continue to defend and pr…

8 Oct

2025

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10th anniversary of the detention of jailed Swedish publisher Gui Minhai in China

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Madam President, thank you very much. In a time where truth becomes relative and facts become opinions, standing up for freedom of expression and the press – and for its defenders – is the most important thing we can do. Gui Minhai is a defender of freedom, a truth-teller, a pioneer and a symbol of the fight against authoritarian oppression. He is also a Swedish citizen, and this year it is ten ye…

7 Oct

2025

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Rising antisemitism in Europe (debate)

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Madam President, thank you very much. October 7 was the biggest attack on Jews since the Holocaust. I have since shared the grief and horror with many Jewish friends. I have shared the fears and anxieties that were a reality even before the Hamas attack but have since become increasingly apparent. The debate repeats that antisemitism in Europe is an imported problem. It is frightening that those o…

9 Jul

2025

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Lessons from Budapest Pride: the urgent need for an EU wide anti-discrimination law and defending fundamental rights against right-wing attacks (topical debate)

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Madam President, thank you very much. Hope is the most powerful feeling there is, and hope is what I was filled with when I walked through Budapest with hundreds of thousands of Hungarians. The Hungarian LGBTQ community, they wandered proudly, straight-backed, convinced that they have the right to be who they are and love who they want. They didn't go alone. Thousands and thousands of other Hungar…

18 Jun

2025

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Case of Ahmadreza Jalali in Iran

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Mr President, thank you very much. For over nine years, the Swedish doctor Ahmadreza Djalali has been imprisoned by the Iranian regime. He has been tortured for nine years. The possibility of his assassination by the regime is imminent. Sweden and the EU can save his life, but then we must act now and use all the tools available to get him free. The alternative is unacceptable. We must not abandon…

17 Jun

2025

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Situation in the Middle East (joint debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. It is not possible to bomb peace, it is not possible to starve security, it is not possible to oppress people into submission. Violence breeds violence, hatred breeds hatred. Bombs, people forced to flee, parents who see their children starving to death, neighbors forced into shelters and buried, mutilated siblings do not lead to more security. Not for anyone. It…

17 Jun

2025

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Combating the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child sexual abuse material and replacing Council Framework Decision 2004/68/JHA (recast) (debate)

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Madam President, thank you very much. Children should be allowed to be children, but every year in the EU more than 1 million children are also forced to be something else: victim, victim, survivor. There are 1 million heartbreaking failures for society, 1 million lives that are always changing, 1 million life-long traumas. In Sweden, there is stronger protection for children against abuse than in…

8 May

2025

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Old challenges and new commercial practices in the internal market (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. It is absurd that today it is possible to buy products that we know can be carcinogenic. It is absurd that the teenager who wants to be nice at an upcoming party risks clicking home a shirt that may affect her chances of having children in the future. Ultra fast fashion It is bad for our health as well as our planet. Fast fashion is a systemic flaw that we, who h…

5 May

2025

EN Speech

Passing of Pope Francis – Statement by the President

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Madam President, standing by the Mediterranean Sea, which has become the final grave for so many people, Pope Francis asked: 'Who wept for these people who were aboard the boat? For the young mothers who brought their babies? For these men who wanted to support their families?' We are a society that has forgotten how to cry. Pope Francis reminded us of our humanity and asked us to overcome the par…

2 Apr

2025

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Delivering on the EU Roma Strategy and the fight against discrimination in the EU (debate)

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Mr President, I would like to thank you. Madam Commissioner, I would like to thank you. President Trump now also wants to dictate the conditions for the EU's diversity work, which is why European companies are being pressured to stop working to identify and capture the skills they need and give more people a chance to show what they can do. This attack shows with desirable clarity that the EU's wo…