Name Lars Adaktusson | Role Journalist | |
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Full Name Lars Goran Peter Adaktusson Children Madeleine Adaktusson, Marcus Adaktusson Similar People Ebba Busch Thor, Goran Hagglund, Alf Svensson, Emma Henriksson, Sara Skyttedal Profiles | ||
Aktuelltslut med lars adaktusson 1993
Lars Göran Peter Adaktusson (born 6 August 1955) is a Swedish politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Sweden. He is a member of the Christian Democrats, part of the European People's Party.
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- Aktuelltslut med lars adaktusson 1993
- Lars adaktusson kandiderar till europaparlamentet
- Early career
- Member of the European Parliament
- References
Lars adaktusson kandiderar till europaparlamentet
Early career
An employee of public broadcaster Sveriges Television (SVT) for many years, Adaktusson has worked both as a reporter and a news anchor for the nightly news show Aktuellt, and has in addition also been stationed as a foreign correspondent in Vienna, Washington DC, and in Amman.
Member of the European Parliament
Adaktusson was elected as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) in the 2014 European Parliament elections in Sweden. He has since been serving on the Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET) and the Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI). In addition to his committee assignments, he serves as vice-chairman of the parliament’s delegation for relations with Afghanistan.
In February 2016, Adaktusson tabled a resolution recognizing the Islamic State militant group’s (ISIS) systematic killing and persecution of religious minorities in the Middle East as a genocide, which the European Parliament unanimously passed.
