Christofer Fjellner Explained

Christofer Fjellner
Honorific-Suffix:MEP
Office:Member of the European Parliament
Term Start:2004
Term End:2019
Constituency:Sweden
Birth Name:Gustav Christofer Ingemar Fjellner
Birth Date:13 December 1976
Birth Place:Västerås, Sweden
Party: Sweden
Moderate Party

European People's Party

Gustav Christofer Ingemar Fjellner (born 13 December 1976) is a Swedish politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2004 until 2019. He is a member of the Moderate Party, part of the European People's Party. Fjellner gained national prominence as chairman of the Moderate Youth League from 2002 to 2004.

Fjellner served on the European Parliament's Committee on International Trade and its Committee on Budgetary Control. In that capacity, he drafted the Parliament's review of EU spending in 2010.[1] He was also a substitute for the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, a member of the delegation for relations with Belarus, and a substitute for the delegation for relations with Iran.

In September 2016, Fjellner joined more than 50 MEPs from six different political groups – including Ashley Fox, Alojz Peterle, Vicky Ford and Beatrix von Storch – in signing a proposal for a two-term limit of the President of the European Parliament. This move was widely seen as an effort to prevent incumbent Martin Schulz from holding onto the presidency for a third consecutive term.[2]

Career

Notes and References

  1. Constant Brand (November 10, 2011), Commission names worst managers of EU money European Voice.
  2. Maïa de La Baume (September 30, 2016), Term limit could take Schulz out of presidential picture Politico Europe.