Jessica Polfjärd
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". Jessica Susanne Zindalai Polfjärd (born 27 May 1971) is a Korean-Swedish politician of the Moderate Party who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since the 2019 European Parliament election in Sweden.[1] She was re-elected in the 2024 European Parliament election in Sweden.[2]
Political career
Career in national politics
Polfjärd has been a member of the Riksdag since the 2006 elections and served as chairman of the Employment Committee of the Riksdag from 2013 to 2014. She was also a member of the Committee on Industry and Trade from 2010 until 2013.[3] She eventually served as the group leader of the Moderate Party in the Riksdag from January 2015 to October 2017.[4][5]
In addition to her committee assignments, Polfjärd was a member of the Swedish delegation to the Nordic Council from 2006 until 2012 and from 2018 until 2019.[6]
Member of the European Parliament, 2019–present
Since becoming a Member of the European Parliament in 2019, Polfjärd has been serving on the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. In this capacity, she has been her group's rapporteur on national climate targets for EU countries and greenhouse gas emission cuts (2022); a law to make batteries more sustainable (2022); a law for the circular economy and second-hand market (2023);[7] and a European Commission proposal to legalize new gene-editing technologies for crops (2023).[8]
Other activities
- Nordisk Kulturfond, Substitute Member of the Board (2019)[9]
References
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- ↑ Final results from European Parliament elections in Sweden Template:Webarchive Read 31 May 2019 (in Swedish)
- ↑ Valpresentation 2024 (Final results from European Parliament elections in Sweden 2024) Template:Webarchive Read 14 June 2024 (in Swedish)
- ↑ Jessica Polfjärd Riksdag.
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- ↑ Jessica Polfjärd Riksdag.
- ↑ Clothilde Goujard (28 December 2022), Swedish presidency of the EU: The Swedes Europe needs to know Politico Europe.
- ↑ Paula Andrés (11 December 2023), Low-speed zone: Europe's super crops revolution hits bottleneck Politico Europe.
- ↑ Board Template:Webarchive Nordisk Kulturfond.
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External links
- Jessica Polfjärd at the Riksdag website
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- 1971 births
- Living people
- Members of the Riksdag from the Moderate Party
- Women members of the Riksdag
- 21st-century Swedish women politicians
- Swedish adoptees
- Politicians from Seoul
- Moderate Party MEPs
- MEPs for Sweden 2019–2024
- 21st-century women MEPs for Sweden
- South Korean emigrants to Sweden
- Swedish people of South Korean descent
- MEPs for Sweden 2024–2029