Amelia Andersdotter

Amelia Andersdotter (born August 30, 1987 in Enköping ) is a Swedish politician . She was a member of the European Parliament from 2011 to 2014 and chairwoman of the European Pirate Party from 2014 to 2015 .

Andersdotter ran for second place in the list of the Swedish Pirate Party in the European elections in Sweden in 2009 . Originally, the Pirate Party received only one seat in this election, which went to Christian Engström . With the Treaty of Lisbon , which came into force on December 1, 2009 , the EU Parliament was expanded, whereby Andersdotter moved up into the European Parliament. On December 1, 2011 she was able to take her seat and joined the group of the Greens / European Free Alliance .

From 2007 to 2010 she was a board member of Ung Pirat , the youth organization of the Pirate Party. On March 21, 2014, she was elected President of the European Pirate Party. Since July 18, 2015, Smári McCarthy has been chairman of the European Pirate Party.

In the European Parliament, Andersdotter was a member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and a member of the delegation for relations with the Korean Peninsula . After the 2014 European elections , Andersdotter lost her seat in the European Parliament after the Swedish Pirate Party had only received 2.2% of the vote.

Andersdotter studied at Lund University . She has lived in Brussels since January 2010 .

She initiated the company Dataskydd.net (Swedish for "data protection"), which also operates the web analysis software Webbkoll (Swedish for "webb" and "koll", meaning "web review").

Web links

Commons : Amelia Andersdotter - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Entry on Amelia Andersdotter in the European Parliament 's database of deputies

Official website (German version)

Individual evidence

↑ Jessica Balksjö: Ung pirat på väg mot Bryssel. In: Dagens Nyheter . June 13, 2009, accessed March 17, 2010 (Swedish).
^ Pirate Party Gets Second Seat in European Parliament. November 4, 2009, accessed March 17, 2010 .
↑ European Parliament: MEPs: Amelia Anderdotter , accessed on 29 November 2012.
↑ Limits of Webbkoll. Accessed March 28, 2018 (English).

personal data
SURNAME	Andersdotter, Amelia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swedish politician, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH	August 30, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH	Enkoping

[1] Jessica Balksjö: Ung pirat på väg mot Bryssel. In: Dagens Nyheter . June 13, 2009, accessed March 17, 2010 (Swedish).

[2] Pirate Party Gets Second Seat in European Parliament. November 4, 2009, accessed March 17, 2010 .

[3] European Parliament: MEPs: Amelia Anderdotter , accessed on 29 November 2012.

[4] Limits of Webbkoll. Accessed March 28, 2018 (English).