Carl Schlyter | |
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Member of the Swedish Riksdag for Stockholm County | |
Assumed office 29 October 2014 | |
Member of the European Parliament for the Kingdom of Sweden | |
In office July 2004 –July 2014 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Danderyd,Sweden | January 7,1968
Political party | Partiet Vändpunkt |
Alma mater | Royal Institute of Technology |
Carl Schlyter (born 7 January 1968 in Danderyd,Stockholm County) is a Swedish politician who has been a member of the Swedish Riksdag for Stockholm County since 2014. He was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2004 to 2014. He is a member of the Green Party,which is part of the European Greens,and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment,Public Health and Food Safety. He is a member of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.
He was also a substitute for the Committee on Budgetary Control and the Committee on Fisheries,and a substitute for the delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
On 16 January 2019,Schlyter announced that he would be leaving the Green Party due to his disagreements with the Social Democrats regarding the 2018-19 government formation. [1] On 13 February,he stated that he would be forming a new political party, Partiet vändpunkt ,together with fellow Green Party MPs Annika Lillemets and Valter Mult. [2] [3] The party intends to focus on tackling climate change and claims to be critical of neoliberalism [4]
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