What Johan spoke about.

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Apr

2023

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Mr President, thank you very much. Since 2017, Uganda has received SEK 2.5 billion in EU aid. At the same time, Uganda's parliament has voted that homosexuality can lead to the death penalty. It is enough that you identify yourself as gay and you can get ten years in prison. Only the President’s signature is now missing – the President, who has previously said that he supports the proposal, but wh…

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Apr

2023

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Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System - Monitoring, reporting and verification of greenhouse gas emissions from maritime transport - Carbon border adjustment mechanism - Social Climate Fund - Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System for aviation (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. Appears to believe that the climate target is something fluffy and delicate that does not affect people’s everyday lives; It becomes easy when you live in a bubble that is not affected by inflation. The EU sells its climate laws as a way to save, but in fact they create a huge burden for ordinary people. More and more working people are finding it difficult to sa…

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Mar

2023

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Strengthening the application of the principle of equal pay for equal work or work of equal value between men and women (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. Labour market issues are beyond the competence of the EU and are best regulated at national level according to the history, system and context of each country. The conditions are different and therefore different solutions are needed. There is no Brussels solution. The Wage Transparency Directive is costly, cumbersome and bureaucratic. It completely breaks the bo…

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Mar

2023

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Mr President, thank you very much. In the name of climate, the EU wants to regulate everything in our lives – from consumption, transport, buildings and travel, which, according to the Commission itself, has only a small impact on global average temperatures, while hitting our prosperity and people's freedom hard. Does climate policy really have to look like this? No, absolutely not. The EU must c…

13

Mar

2023

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Energy performance of buildings (recast) (debate)

Madam President, thank you very much. Are you a homeowner? Then you should listen very carefully now. Millions of homeowners in the EU will have to renovate their homes to save energy. At the same time, the EU is doing nothing to reduce its own energy consumption. The European Parliament’s energy costs quadrupled in 2022 compared to the previous year – they amount to over SEK 600 million. The sens…

14

Feb

2023

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CO2 emission standards for cars and vans (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. In the midst of the current energy crisis, the EU wants to ban the internal combustion engine to promote electric cars. But is it really climate-smart? No, absolutely not. The war in Ukraine has led to a renaissance of coal power that produces electricity for Europe's electric cars. Or should we call them coal-fired cars because that's the right name? It can't ge…

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Feb

2023

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Mr President, thank you very much. Toothpaste, perfume and sunscreen are three products that are at risk of disappearing if the Commission gets its proposal through. Its draft new cosmetics regulation would regulate the market for these products. The EU's worldview is once again clashing with reality. Bureaucrats find topics that are ‘dangerous’. In toothpaste, fluoride is dangerous. In sunscreen …

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Jan

2023

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Criminalisation of humanitarian assistance, including search and rescue (debate)

– Mr President, the problem is that people are dying, and it is because of the politics we have now. So the people we can blame is the people who are supporting the politics now – because you have blood on your hands, you’re making people die instead of saving them.…

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Jan

2023

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Criminalisation of humanitarian assistance, including search and rescue (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. Commissioner Johansson! If we really want to reduce or prevent people from drowning in the Mediterranean, we need to change policy. We cannot continue to promise gold and green forests to migrants coming to Europe. Last year, 330,000 people entered Europe illegally. This is 64 per cent more than in the previous year. Instead of rewarding illegal migration, we mus…

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Jan

2023

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Mr President, thank you very much. When Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson presented the Swedish Presidency of the EU, he was clear about the importance of putting national interests aside and that it is not for waving the big Swedish flag. Thinking European nowadays means that Sweden should pay more or compromise its interests. In Brussels, unlike in Stockholm, what Macron means when he says ‘defend …

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Jan

2023

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30th Anniversary of the Single Market (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. In the 1990s, Europe achieved something amazing that the whole world admires, and that I really love about it, namely an internal market of about half a billion people trading with each other every day. It is based on the fact that companies produce what they do best and that there is fair competition without countries providing support to their own industry. Thi…

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Dec

2022

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Renewable Energy, Energy Performance of Buildings and Energy Efficiency Directives: amendments (REPowerEU) (continuation of debate)

Madam President, thank you very much. The EU has a vision to make 240 million buildings zero-emission. It's great, but will it work in practice? Between 2010 and 2018, Germany spent EUR 342 billion on energy saving measures. That's as much as three national budgets. Despite this, the energy consumption was almost the same. We should learn from Germany and not throw the money into the lake. If we r…

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Dec

2022

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Madam President, thank you very much. The Sweden Democrats warned from the outset that the corona fund was not a temporary measure. Because with the EU, nothing is temporary. If you give a finger to the EU, they take their whole hand. With every crisis, the EU seeks to gain more power. Although parts of the Coronavirus Fund's billions have not yet been distributed, there is already talk of a new f…

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Nov

2022

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Establishing the Digital Decade Policy Programme 2030 (debate)

Madam President, thank you very much. The EU has become the world champion in regulating digitalisation, rather than supporting innovation and innovation. We have therefore fallen behind on a global scale. I support the idea of investing in digital development, because it is a good thing, but I fear that this strategy will fail. I hope I'm wrong. It contains many beautiful words and incredibly amb…

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Nov

2022

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Gender balance among non-executive directors of companies listed on stock exchanges (debate)

The whole debate about having to quota people in is not doing anyone a favour who will be quota—ed in. Because the problem is that if someone gets quota—ed in for a position – and it doesn’t matter what kind of thing they are being quota—ed in for – the other people around will think they are there because of the quota, not because of the competence. That’s the biggest problem. I know from my clas…

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Nov

2022

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Gender balance among non-executive directors of companies listed on stock exchanges (debate)

Madam President, thank you very much. It is tragic that the EU now believes that people should be judged on their gender and not their skills. I am ashamed that it was the Swedish Social Democrats who opened up to this madness, that it was the Swedish Social Democrats who in 2017 opened up for the EU to now legislate quotas on company boards and that the EU should have control over wages. But beli…

10

Nov

2022

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A high common level of cybersecurity across the Union (debate)

Madam President, thank you very much. Cyber threats are becoming increasingly cross-border. Collaboration is an important part of dealing with it. No single state can guarantee cybersecurity without international cooperation, exchange of information and experience from others. We need more benchmarking that allows states to learn by comparison with others. Such positive and inspiring competition b…

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Nov

2022

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Mr President, thank you very much. From 2035, the EU wants to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars. This madness will have drastic consequences for the environment and the economy. In addition, it will increase our dependence on China, which in the future will strike back very hard. Just look at what the naïve political decision to become dependent on Russian gas has led to. The batteries co…

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Oct

2022

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Growing hate crimes against LGBTIQ people across Europe in light of the recent homophobic murder in Slovakia (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. Thank you for taking the floor in this very important debate, which is also my first, my first speech in plenary. Two gay men were recently shot dead outside a gay bar in Bratislava. It is a very tragic event. As an LGBT+ person, I think it's very terrible to see this, because I can imagine that it could be both me and my boyfriend who was exposed to this or one …