Åsa Romson

Åsa Romson (2011)

Åsa Elisabeth Romson (born March 22, 1972 in Salem , Stockholm County ) is a Swedish politician of the Greens ( Miljöpartiet de Gröna ). On October 3, 2014, she became Minister of Climate and Environment in the Löfven government . On May 9, 2016, she announced her resignation from this position.

Already in 2006 she was elected to the Swedish parliament, but did not take up the mandate, but began a doctorate in international environmental law at Stockholm University . She accepted her re- election in 2010 and became a member of the Committee on Environment and Agriculture.

From May 21, 2011 to May 13, 2016, she was the Green Party spokeswoman with Gustav Fridolin . In 2012 Åsa Romson completed her doctoral studies with the achievement of a doctorate. It was the first time in 40 years that a leader of a Swedish parliamentary party had a doctorate.

She hit the headlines internationally when her voice broke and tears came at a press conference on November 24, 2015, at which she, as Deputy Prime Minister, announced a tightening of the Swedish asylum laws. On another occasion, she compared the refugees who perished in the Mediterranean with Auschwitz prisoners.

In May 2016, Romson resigned as party leader as well as environment minister after she was under pressure within the party because of falling polls and after the resignation of Mehmet Kaplan .

Romson has formulated a rejection on behalf of her government regarding the further approval of glyphosate as a pesticide in agriculture and horticulture planned in the EU at German instigation :

“We don't want to take any risks with glyphosate. We believe that the current state of science is not clear enough. We suggest that no decision is made at this time, until there is further investigation and until the EFSA scientists have made their views clearer. "

- Romson, March 2016

In March 2017, Åsa Romson announced that she would no longer run in the 2018 Reichstag elections and would end her political career.

Web links

• Åsa Romson Official Blog
• Spokeswoman Åsa Romson appearance on the website of the Greens
• MEP Åsa Romson's short biography on Parliament's website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Åsa Romson leaves the government , Dagens Nyheter (Swedish).
2. ↑ Miljön får stå tillbaka för kommersiella intressen Dagens juridik, April 26, 2012, accessed on July 9, 2012
3. ↑ Ulf Bjereld: Åsa Romson (MP) disputerar! ajour.se, April 13, 2012, accessed on July 9, 2012
4. ↑ Mats Knutson: Darför offrades Åsa Romson. Sveriges Television , May 9, 2016, accessed February 19, 2017 (Swedish). 
5. ↑ according to The Guardian, March 4, 2016. Own trans.
6. ↑ Åsa Romson Leaving Politics , Sveriges television (Swedish), accessed March 16, 2017.