Carl Schlyter
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{{Short description|Swedish politician and MEP}}
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| birth_date ={{Birth date and age|1968|1|7}}
| birth_place =Danderyd, Sweden
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| office = Member of the Swedish Riksdag
for Stockholm County
| term_start = 29 October 2014
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| office2 = Member of the European Parliament
for the Kingdom of Sweden
| term_start2 = July 2004
| term_end2 = July 2014
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| party = Partiet Vändpunkt
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| alma_mater = Royal Institute of Technology
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Carl Schlyter (born 7 January 1968 in Danderyd, Stockholm County) 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.
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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.etc.se/debatt/carl-schlyter-darfor-lamnar-jag-miljopartiet|title=Carl Schlyter: Därför lämnar jag Miljöpartiet|last=Gäst|date=2019-01-17|website=ETC|language=sv|access-date=2019-02-13}} 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.{{Cite news|url=https://www.svd.se/schlyter-startar-nytt-parti--siktar-pa-eu-valet|title=Schlyter startar nytt parti – vill införa ett "folkligt veto"|last=Delling|first=Hannes|date=2019-02-13|work=Svenska Dagbladet|access-date=2019-02-13|language=sv|issn=1101-2412}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/uppgifter-mp-avhoppare-bildar-nytt-parti/|title=Uppgifter: MP-avhoppare bildar nytt parti|last1=Am|last2=am|first2=a Möller Berg|website=www.expressen.se|date=13 February 2019 |language=sv|access-date=2019-02-13}} The party intends to focus on tackling climate change and claims to be critical of neoliberalism{{Cite web|url=https://www.aftonbladet.se/a/J1mdA7|title=MP-rebeller bildar nytt parti: Ett kraftcentrum|website=Aftonbladet|date=13 February 2019 |language=sv|access-date=2019-02-13}}
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)
References
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External links
- [https://archive.today/20130418074640/http://www.mp.se/carlschlyter.asp Official website]
- [http://wwwdb.europarl.eu.int/ep6/owa/whos_mep.data?ilg=EN&iucd=28139 European Parliament biography]{{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
- {{Declaration of financial interests of the 6th term|28139_17-06-2004.PDF|sv}}
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Category:Green Party (Sweden) MEPs
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