Carl Schlyter
Swedish politician and MEP
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Carl Schlyter (born 7 January 1968) 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.
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 | 7 January 1968 |
| Party | Partiet Vändpunkt |
| Alma mater | Royal Institute of Technology |
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.
Leaving Miljöpartiet and starting up a new party called Partiet Vändpunkt
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]
Career
- Chemical engineering specialising in biotechnology and the environment (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, 1987–1994)
- Research study Impurities in coal (Miami University, Ohio, 1989)
- Museum guide (1994)
- Political secretary of the Green Party in Stockholm City Hall (1994–1995)
- Assistant, European Parliament (1996)
- Responsible for Agenda 21 and the environment, culture and sports administration Stockholm (1997)
- Adviser to the Green Group in the Committee on Budgetary Control (1997–2004)
- Member of the party's Executive (2000–2008)
- Sweden's representative in the European Green Federation (since 2001)
- Sweden's representative in the Global Greens (since 2002)
