The Brussels Report Podcast Episode 22 – with ECR MEP Charlie Weimers
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🗓️ 26 July 2022
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Summary
Charlie Weimers is a Swedish MEP (ECR-SD), elected to the European Parliament since 2019.
He serves at the European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs and is is a substitute member of the European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and the Delegation to the U.S. He is the co-chair of the European Conservatives and Reformists Migration Working Group.
Before he moved to SD, he has served as the chairman of the Swedish Young Christian Democrats between 2008 and 2011.
In the 2021 Brussels Report Ranking of MEPs, Weimers came second. He has been regularly publishing comment pieces on Brussels Report, amongst others supporting the migration policies of the Danish government.
In this this episode of the Brussels Report podcast, BrusselsReport.eu editor Pieter Cleppe discusses the following topics with him:
- The Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE). How did it all go so wrong and why does it lack legitimacy?
- Migration policy and the EU Commission: is there any hope for change?
- EU funding to Islamofascist groups: is attention for this problem increasing?
- The upcoming Swedish election: What to expect?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The Brussels Report podcast. |
| 0:14.0 | Welcome to a new episodes of the Brussels Report podcast. |
| 0:20.0 | My name is Peter Klepper. I'm the editor-in-chief of |
| 0:24.1 | BrusselsReport.com. I'm very happy to have as my guest today, ECRMEP Charlie Weimer. |
| 0:33.5 | So he's a member of parliament, of European Parliament, for the European Conservatives and Reformists, |
| 0:39.8 | and of course for the Sweden Democrats in his home country of Sweden. |
| 0:45.6 | So welcome, Charlie. |
| 0:47.3 | Thanks a lot, Peter. |
| 0:49.1 | So Charlie, maybe I should give a quick introduction. |
| 0:51.9 | We know each other a long time. |
| 0:53.9 | I would consider you as one of |
| 0:56.2 | the best MEPs from my personal perspective from the Brussels report perspective you fight for |
| 1:03.3 | decentralization free markets you know standing up for democracy in in the. And that's, of course, something great. |
| 1:13.1 | Originally, you come from the Christian Democrats in Sweden, but then you sort of change party, |
| 1:22.6 | not ideas, I would say. You've always stick to, as as far as i know more or less the same ideas |
| 1:29.8 | and uh now since 2019 you are um i would say a very influential mp uh for for eCR and sweden |
| 1:38.4 | democrats right well thank you for that introduction peter um yeah, we go back a long time and one could maybe brand us as reformists in our perspective on what's going on here in Brussels and sort of, yeah, my EU interest goes back all the way to 2004 when I attended my first event with the youth of the European People's Party. |
| 2:13.6 | And that was in Ukraine. |
| 2:16.1 | And we were listening to Viktor Yushenko, if anyone remembers that old presidential candidate who was poisoned, by whom, well, you go figure. |
| 2:29.5 | And then he was elected president and Russia started making problems with gas prices. |
| 2:36.9 | And that's when I realized the importance of energy security some 15, 20 years before the Germans. |
| 2:46.7 | So, and then I went on and became vice president of the youth of the EPP and really learned how to argue against EU centralism, EU federalism. |
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