Ewa Hedkvist Petersen

Last updated

Ewa Hedkvist Petersen (born 15 January 1952 in Arvidsjaur, Swedish Lapland) is a Swedish politician and Member of the European Parliament. She is a member of the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Sweden, which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Transport and Tourism.

She is also a substitute for the Committee on Regional Development, and vice-chair of the delegation for relations with Switzerland, Iceland and Norway and to the European Economic Area Joint Parliamentary Committee.

Career


Related Research Articles

Astrid Lulling

Astrid Lulling is a politician in Luxembourg, and was a Member of the European Parliament for the Christian Social People's Party, part of the European People's Party.

Anna Hedh Swedish politician

Anna Hedh is a Swedish politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2004 until 2019. She is a member of the Swedish Social Democratic Party, part of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats.

Inger Agneta Segelström is a Swedish politician and former Member of the European Parliament. She is a member of the Swedish Social Democratic Party, part of the Socialist Group.

Reino Paasilinna

Reino Paasilinna is a Finnish politician and former Member of the European Parliament (MEP). He is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Finland, which is part of the Party of European Socialdemocrats. He was in the European Parliament from 1996 to 2009, and has sat on the Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy.

Ria Oomen-Ruijten Dutch politician

Ria Oomen-Ruijten is a Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) who has been serving as a member of the Senate since 9 June 2015.

José Duarte de Almeida Ribeiro e Castro is a Portuguese lawyer and politician. He was the leader of the People's Party since 24 April 2005 to 2007, when he was replaced again by Paulo Portas. He was also a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1999 to 2009, for the Social Democratic Party–People's Party coalition; part of the European People's Party–European Democrats group.

Françoise Grossetête French politician

Françoise Grossetête is a French politician who served as Member of the European Parliament for the South-East of France from 1994 until 2019. She is a member of The Republicans; part of the European People's Party.

Jules Maaten is a Dutch politician and since August 2020 Head of International Regions at the Headquarters in Potsdam of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF). Prior to that he was FNF Regional Director for sub-Sahara Africa, based in Johannesburg (2016-2020) and FNF country director in the Philippines (2010-2016), supporting projects for good governance, human rights, free trade and introduced the annual Africa Freedom Prize and in Manila the "It's All About Freedom"-project that includes an annual Freedom Run against corruption.

Andrzej Szejna

Andrzej Jan Szejna is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Lesser Poland Voivodeship & Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship with the Democratic Left Alliance-Labor Union, part of the Socialist Group and is vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs.

Irena Belohorská is a Slovak politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Ludova strana - Hnutie za demokraticke Slovensko from 2004 to 2009.

Hedy dAncona Dutch female politician

Hedwig "Hedy" d'Ancona is a retired Dutch politician of the Labour Party (PvdA) and political activist.

Anita Gradin is a Swedish politician and former Ambassador. She was the Minister with responsibility for immigrant and equality affairs at the Ministry of Labour in Sweden from 1982 to 1986. She was Minister with responsibility for foreign trade at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1986 to 1991. From 1995 to 1999 she was a member of the European Commission responsible for Immigration, home affairs and justice; relations with the Ombudsman; Financial Control and Fraud prevention.

Hans Hoogervorst Dutch politician

Johannes Franciscus "Hans" Hoogervorst is a retired Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) and economist. He is the chairman of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) since 1 July 2011.

Kristina Axén Olin

Anna Kristina Axén Olin is a Swedish Moderate politician and member of the Riksdag, she is currently a member and the Second vice-Speaker of the Education Committee. She currently takes up seat number 244 in the Riksdag. She was a member of the Justice Committee from her entry in the Riksdag until February 2019. She held the post of Mayor of Stockholm between 2006–2008, being the city's second female mayor. She also served as deputy chairman of the party from 2003 to 2009, when she was replaced by Beatrice Ask.

Olle Schmidt Swedish politician

Torsten Olof "Olle" Fredrik Schmidt is a Swedish politician. He served as a Member of the European Parliament for the Swedish Liberal People's Party, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, between 1999 and 2004, and again between 2006 and 2014.

Kathleen Van Brempt

Kathleen Van Brempt, is a Belgian social-democratic politician and member of the sp.a. She currently serves as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) as part of the Party of European Socialists and is leader of the local branch of her party in Antwerp.

Imre Szekeres Hungarian politician

Imre Szekeres is a Hungarian politician of the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) and former Minister of Defense.

Željko Reiner

Željko Reiner is a Croatian physician, politician, university professor, member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts and former Minister of Health and Social Welfare who served as the 10th Speaker of the Croatian Parliament since independence, and the 20th Speaker overall, from December 2015 until October 2016.

1992 Dissolution Honours

The 1992 Dissolution Honours List was gazetted on 5 June 1992 following the advice of the Prime Minister, John Major.

2005 Dissolution Honours

The 2005 Dissolution Honours List was issued after the General Election of the same year on the advice of the Prime Minister, Tony Blair.