Emma Wiesner | |
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| Member of the European Parliament for Sweden | |
| Assumed office 4 February 2021 | |
| Parliamentary group | Renew Europe |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 11 November 1992 Västerås,Sweden |
| Political party | Centre Party |
| Alma mater | Uppsala University |
| Occupation | Engineer,politician |
Emma Wiesner (born 11 November 1992) is a Swedish politician for the Centre Party,and former energy systems engineer. [1] [2] Wiesner has been a Member of the European Parliament since 4 February 2021. [3]
Wiesner started her political career as a 13 year old,after having seen Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth . After realizing that the environmental movement was her major political issue she chose to join the green liberal Centre Party,where she began regional chairman for the youth wing. [4]
In the run-up to the 2019 European Parliament election,Wiesner was third on the Centre party list with a campaign slogan to bring "new energy to Europe" and wanting to increase the renewable energy in the union. [5] The Centre party won two places in the election and even though Wiesner received more than 20,683 votes, [6] it was not enough to reach over the threshold. [7]
On 11 December 2020,it was announced that Wiesner was going to replace Fredrick Federley's seat in the European Parliament,after his resignation the same day. [8] At 28 years of age,she became Sweden’s youngest member of the European Parliament. [9]
In parliament Wiesner is a full member of the Committee on the Environment,Public Health and Food Safety and the Committee on Fisheries. She is also a substitute member of the Industry,Research and Energy committee (ITRE),the European Parliament Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and the Special Committee for the Protection of Animals in Transport (ANIT) [10] [11]
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