The Brussels Report Podcast Episode 30 – with Swedish MP Martin Kinnunen
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🗓️ 15 March 2023
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Summary
Martin Kinnunen is a Member of the Swedish Parliament (SD-ECR). He has been a Member of the Riksdag since 2014, elected for the Stockholm constituency since 2018. Before, he was elected for the Gothenburg constituency. He is a member of both the EU Committee and the Environment and Agriculture affairs Committee, and serves as the climate and environmental policy spokesperson for his party.
Kinnunen has been press secretary for the Sweden Democrats in 2010–2014 and also served as Chairman of Sweden Democratic Youth between 2005 and 2007. Kinnunen is a trained economist (PhD) and has completed a bachelor of philosophy degree in economics at Stockholm University.
In this this episode of the Brussels Report podcast, BrusselsReport.eu editor Pieter Cleppe discusses the following topics with him:
- The EU's energy crisis: how did it came so far and are EU member states on the right path?
- The EU's green deal and ever more expensive climate policies: is the Swedish EU Council Presidency putting the brakes on?
- Is there a chance to put a stop to EU legislative plans to ban the combustion engine?
- The latest on the European Union's protectionist response to the American "Inflation Reduction Act"
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| 0:00.0 | The Brussels Report Podcast. |
| 0:14.0 | Welcome to a new episode of the Brussels Report podcast. |
| 0:18.0 | My name is Peter Klepper. I'm the editor-in-chief of Brusselsreport. |
| 0:23.4 | EU. And I'm very happy to have as my guest today, Martin Kinenen, who is the climate and |
| 0:33.1 | environment spokesman of the Swedish Democrats, the Sweden Democrats. |
| 0:42.5 | He's a member of the Swedish Parliament, also a member of the EU Affairs Committee in the Swedish Parliament. |
| 0:44.6 | So, very welcome, Martin. |
| 0:46.3 | Thank you very much for having me. |
| 0:48.4 | Yes, absolutely. |
| 0:49.2 | It's very timely because, as I think my listeners know, Sweden is currently chairing the EU Council, |
| 0:59.0 | so the body where the member states of the European Union gets together to decide all kinds of |
| 1:06.0 | important legislation. So perhaps first we can start with the topic of energy independence. I mean, |
| 1:14.4 | looking back at the last year, we could see that this was clearly a big challenge for the European |
| 1:21.5 | Union, specifically Germany had become way too dependent on Russia for its energy provision. |
| 1:27.4 | So looking back, do you think we have made progress on this? |
| 1:32.5 | Yeah, we have made some progress in a short period of time. |
| 1:36.9 | We're not dependent on Russian energy anymore. |
| 1:40.5 | I'm surprised. |
| 1:43.4 | It was fast |
| 1:44.7 | anyway but |
| 1:45.6 | everything is more expensive |
| 1:48.2 | these days so it has been |
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