What Johan spoke about.

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Nov

2021

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Common agricultural policy - support for strategic plans to be drawn up by Member States and financed by the EAGF and by the EAFRD - Common agricultural policy: financing, management and monitoring - Common agricultural policy – amendment of the CMO and other regulations (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. 560 billion SEK, this is how much money the EU spends on agriculture every year. That is why I am particularly pissed off when review after review shows how entrepreneurs in the sector are exploiting people on our continent without scruples, and in the most serious way. It is about people who are forced to sleep like animals in cold stables or in dilapidated barn…

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Oct

2021

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Protecting workers from asbestos (debate)

Madam President, thank you very much. Commissioner Schmit! I was born the same year that asbestos was banned in Sweden. Next year it will be 40 years ago and despite that, asbestos is still the single largest cause of work-related death in both Sweden and the rest of Europe. How we act now will determine whether that is still the case when my own children reach my current age. This is a responsibi…

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Oct

2021

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EU Road Safety Policy Framework 2021-2030 – Recommendations on next steps towards "Vision Zero" (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. More than 400 people lose their lives on EU roads every week. It is truck drivers, bus drivers, families with children, someone's friend, parents or children, and it is important to remember that road safety is also a health and safety issue. In Sweden, only in the last ten years 66 truck drivers have died at work and the European Transport Workers' Union showed …

14

Sep

2021

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Presentation of the Fit for 55 package after the publication of the IPCC report (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. The climate challenge is the big issue of our time. If we are to succeed, it is urgent to change the transport sector. Ambitious proposals on sustainable fuels for aviation and maritime transport are therefore welcome. Obtaining binding and ambitious targets for the deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure will be a central part of the work. However, in add…

13

Sep

2021

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Fair working conditions, rights and social protection for platform workers - New forms of employment linked to digital development (debate)

Madam President, thank you very much. ‘It has come to our attention that you have written about trade union issues in one of the company’s chat groups.’ This was the first line of an email in which a Swedish gig company called up an employee to the area manager. Colleagues! Hundreds of years ago, Europe’s workers stood with their hats in hand waiting for work – without security, without rights, wi…

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Jul

2021

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Decent working and employment conditions in the aviation sector - Impact of the COVID-19 crisis on aviation (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. Although the pandemic has highlighted the problems of the aviation sector, social problems are anything but new. Since the 1990s, we have seen a serious deterioration in working conditions, through increased outsourcing and a growing proportion of non-standard forms of employment. An important principle of the European labour market is the principle of equal pay …