Christian Engström

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Lars Christian Engström (born February 9, 1960 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish programmer and politician . He is vice chairman of the Swedish Piratpartiet and was the top candidate of the party in the European elections in Sweden in 2009 , when he became the first representative of a Pirate Party in the European Parliament moved in. He lost this seat after the 2014 European elections , in which the Swedish Pirate Party, of which he was the top candidate, did not reach the 4% threshold with 2.2% of the vote.

Personal

Engström is married and has one son. He lives with his family in Nacka , in the Stockholm metropolitan area.

Career

He studied at Stockholm University , which he left in 1983 with a degree in mathematics and computer science. During his studies, he worked for a company that specialized in phonetic comparisons of protected brand names. After graduating, he worked there full time. In 1987 he became a partner and in 1991 Vice President of the company. In 1997 the company was sold to CompuMark . Engström stayed with the company until 2001 when he started his own company, Glindra AB.

Political work

For five years, Engström was a volunteer activist in the Friends' Association for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) against software patents. He was actively involved in the campaign against the EU software patent directive, which was rejected by the European Parliament in July 2005. He was also involved in the founding of the Swedish FFII and was vice chairman for the first year. In the late 1980s he became a member of the Swedish People's Party of Liberals . From 1992 to 1998 he worked as a lay judge for the party in the Stockholm District Court and was active in local politics in Bromma in Stockholm. After the founding of the Swedish Pirate Party on January 1, 2006, he left the Liberal People's Party and switched to the Swedish Pirate Party. In the European Parliament, Engström had joined the group The Greens / European Free Alliance . He was a member of the Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection and the Legal Affairs Committee , as well as the Delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) and deputy in the Delegation for relations with Mercosur .

Engström was the only Swedish member of the European Parliament to vote against Mary Honeyball's report "Sexual exploitation and prostitution and its impact on gender equality", which recommended that the Swedish model of criminalizing the purchase of sexual services be adopted across Europe.

Web links

Commons : Christian Engström  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Val till Europaparlamentet - Valsedlar ( Swedish ) Swedish Election Authority . May 21, 2009. Retrieved May 22, 2009.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Christian Engström ( Swedish ) Christian Engström. Archived from the original on January 6, 2007. Retrieved May 22, 2009.
  3. ↑ Your MPs: Christian ENGSTRÖM . European Parliament. Retrieved November 12, 2009.
  4. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.votewatch.eu
personal data
SURNAME Engström, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Engström, Lars Christian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish programmer and politician (Pirate Party), MEP
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm