Alice Teodorescu Måwe

Alice Teodorescu was born in Bucharest, Romania.^[1] She attended the Sture Academy, a training programme for young people run by liberal think tank Timbro.^[1][2]

After completing her legal training, she worked as an intern in the Brussels office of the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise and then became a communication strategist for the newspaper.^[1] She has also been an editorial writer for newspapers including Barometern in Oskarshamn and Gotlands Allehanda.^[3][4] In 2009, she founded a women's network called "En plats i himlen för kvinnor som hjälper varandra" ("A place in heaven for women who help each other").^[5]

Teodorescu criticised gender quotas on corporate boards and advocated a policy of equality based on individualism rather than collectivism. She has also written on integration and education. In February 2014 she attracted much attention by calling in a debate on the Sveriges Radio channel 1 programme P1 Debatt for a clear definition of the term "racism" and questioning whether racism in Sweden was structural.^[2][6][7][8] She also argued that it was time for a more nuanced, less dogmatic and polarising debate on the issue.^[9] During the Almedalen week in June and July 2014 Ali Esbati refused to shake hands with Teodorescu after a live broadcast debate between the two, this after a discussion about racism in Sweden.^[10] After the debate both Teodorescu and Esbati received criticism for not considering each other's opinions.^[11] In a subsequent opinion piece in Svenska Dagbladet, Teodorescu complained about what she saw as the lenient treatment of the Green Party by the press.^[12]

Teodorescu Måwe was running to become a Member of the European Parliament for the Christian Democrats in the upcoming EP elections for 2024.^[13] She replaced Sara Skyttedal as the party's top name for the election.^[13][14] She was voted into the parliament as the only Christian Democrat and took office on 16 July 2024.^[15]

During the ongoing war in the Middle East since 2023, Teodorescu Måwe has taken a strong pro-Israel stance in the public debate in Sweden. In 2024, she proposed that everyone, especially immigrants from the Levant who becomes a citizen of Sweden must recognize Israel as a state. In an interview with Swedish Television, she said: "Many of those who engage in 'Hamas-hugging' in these demonstrations also do not support other values that we take for granted in a Swedish context".^[16]

She is a parliamentary candidate in the 2026 Swedish general election.^[17][18]

In 2018, Måwe wrote that Holocaust survivors were “fronts” for the political left.^[19] The statement was criticized by Dagens Nyheter’s Johan Hilton, who described it as ”shocking” and ”an appallingly vulgar statement”.^[20]

Måwe has also received criticism for accepting financial support from an anonymous donor. According to SVT Nyheter, the support is disclosed in a transparency document submitted to the European Parliament, but Måwe has declined to identify the donor or disclose the amount.^[21]

In 2019 Teodorescu married pianist Henrik Måwe [sv] at Lund Cathedral, after which she also assumed his surname.^[22][23]