Cecilia Malmström

Cecilia Malmström

Anna Cecilia Malmström (born May 15, 1968 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish political scientist and politician of the Liberalerna party . From 1999 to 2006 she was a member of the European Parliament and from 2006 to 2010 European Minister in the Swedish government under Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt . Since February 10, 2010 she was a member of the EU Commission . From February 2010 to October 2014 as EU Commissioner for Home Affairs , from November 2014 to November 2019 as EU Commissioner for Trade . The Commission Von der Leyen , who held office since December 2019, it does not belong to more.

Career

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Cecilia Malmström (2011)

Malmström grew up in Gothenburg and France and worked in Stuttgart and Barcelona , among others . She is fluent in Swedish , English , French and Spanish . She also has knowledge of German and Italian . She is married and has twins.

From 1994 to 1998 Malmström was employed at the University of Gothenburg , where she did her PhD in political science. She has taught and researched on European politics, regionalism , immigration policy and terrorism . She has been a member of the Liberals (which was called Folkpartiet liberalerna (FP) until November 2015) since the late 1980s , was a member of the Provincial Parliament of Västra Götaland County, and has been on the presidium of her party since 1997 .

EU commissioner for home affairs

In 2009 she was proposed by the then incumbent Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt as the new EU Commissioner for the Scandinavian. The incumbent EU Commission President José Manuel Barroso subsequently appointed her EU Commissioner for Home Affairs, which Malmström held until 2014.

Efforts to introduce Internet blocking

On March 28, 2010, Malmström announced on the Internet platform of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that he would present a draft directive on the following day to block websites on the Internet at EU level. On March 29, she presented the press with concrete plans to combat child pornography, based on arguments similar to those of Ursula von der Leyen , some of which have already been refuted. In their opinion, these guidelines may limit the distribution of child pornography. Civil rights activists and internet users criticize their approach, as this could pave the way for censorship on the internet . Having been the former German Family Minister Ursula von der Leyen for their efforts to zugangserschwerungsgesetz was known by the nickname "Zensursula" quickly become popular, particularly among Internet activists Cecilia Malmström, the term "Censilia" according taz on the basis of the English term Censorship .

Comprehensive control of European internet content

As the EU Commissioner for Home Affairs, Malmström was responsible for the Clean IT project, which was originally financially supported by the Commissioner for Justice, Freedom and Security . The project is based on the concept of a public private partnership between European security authorities and a wide variety of IT companies. The aim is to develop guidelines for the IT industry, compliance with which is followed on a voluntary basis by corporate partners to prevent end-user access to terrorist content. The aim is to “restrict terrorist use of the Internet” and “fight illegal use of the Internet”. It explicitly takes a non-legislative approach. The consultation of national and supranational parliaments is expressly not intended. The aim of the measure is a comprehensive control of the network content, initially on a European level, and later, if possible, on a global level. After a document of the Clean IT project with possible measures became known, Malmström made it clear that the EU Commission had no substantive influence on the debates within Clean IT and that the recommendations made were not binding on anyone.

Pact with Libya on immigration

On October 5, 2010, Malmström signed an agreement with the Libyan government under which the EU will pay around 50 million euros for technical assistance and equipment by 2013 so that Libya can better secure its borders and treat refugees more humane.

Trans Atlantic Task Force

Malmström has been a member of the Transatlantic Task Force of the German Marshall Fund and the Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt Foundation since 2019 .

literature

• Cecilia Malmström , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 15/2010 from April 13, 2010, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Web links

Commons : Cecilia Malmström  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Cecilia Malmström's website at the European Commission
• Cecilia Malmström's website at the Liberal People's Party. ( Memento from May 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
• Entry on Cecilia Malmström in the database of Members of the European Parliament

Individual evidence

1. ↑ dpa: The new commissioners: From old hands and newcomers - the new EU Commission . In: The time . November 27, 2019, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed December 1, 2019]).
2. ↑ Holger Bleich: EU Commission calls for web blocks against child pornography. In: c't 9/10. Retrieved April 11, 2010 . 
3. ↑ Cecilia Malmström: Child Abuse - “Cleaning up the dark corners of the Internet”. In: Faz.net . March 29, 2010. Retrieved March 29, 2010 . 
4. ↑ Alvar Freude: "Internet blocking is nonsense in the fight against child abuse". AK Zensur , March 29, 2010, accessed on March 29, 2010 (press release). 
5. ↑ Julia Seeliger : Network blocking at the European level - Censursula becomes Censilia. In: taz.de . March 29, 2010. Retrieved March 29, 2010 . 
6. ↑ Internet blocks: Zensursula is dead, long live Censilia , ntv from March 29, 2010
7. ↑ EU Commissioner Malmström on network blocking: "I am denigrated as a Chinese dictator" , FAZ from April 13, 2010
8. ↑ Holger Bleich: Déjà vu , c't 9/2010, p. 53f
9. ↑ Clean IT: The EU wants to keep the Internet “clean” and “healthy” , netzpolitik.org, February 24, 2012, accessed on June 7, 2012.
10. ↑ ^{a b} About the project cleanitproject.eu , accessed June 7, 2012.
11. ↑ Clean IT: Malmström sees "misunderstanding"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , futurezone.at of September 26, 2012, accessed on October 14, 2012.  
12. ^ EU signs pact with Libya on immigration , Die Presse , October 5, 2010
13. ↑ Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt Foundation and German Marshall Fund establish “Transatlantic Task Force”. Accessed April 27, 2020 (German).