“In the EU elections M stands on the wrong side of history”

“Aftonbladet’s leader board is the independent social democrat.”

“Believe it or not, but today it is just a month to go until the EUROPEAN elections. Along with half a billion other europeans to the Swedish people then choose a new european Parliament. The choice is set against a backdrop of ten years of the financial crisis, the refugee crisis and the climate crisis, with Russian aggression towards Ukraine, a messy Brexit and, not least, the… Donald Trump.”

“judging by the polls boils in the electorate. Experts warn that a new – more brutal – right-hand-can get great success in the elections. In Sweden, we should expect that the SD increases but also to the future of the parliamentarians from the M and KD become more and more provincial than we were accustomed to. The time when the Conservatives of the party wore a faded yellow shirt with the text ”

“Today’s European högerkrafter combines rather than different degrees of nationalism to counter gender equality and climate change.”

“So exactly everything the EU does not need.”

“We meet with the social Democrats EU candidate Jytte Guteland, 39, over a cup of coffee and ask how the option looks like.”

“– I try to talk about it as a sustainable Europe, in which the environment, economy and social issues are interrelated. If you forget the social sustainability there will be protests against the climate policies, as the yellow vests in France. We know that a EUROPE that is changing the climate also provides more jobs in the long term, but at the same time, some industries will be hit harder, as the coal mines, ” she says.”

“Jytte Guteland has the third place on the social democratic list and is the only one of the five existing S-meps who are standing for re-election. So far she has sat in the Committee on the environment and identifies nature conservation as one of the members that has done the most for the environment.”

“She lives in Stockholm with her husband Johan, who is a police officer and their two children, 6 and 2 years old. And the belgian shepherd dog Wild. In order to reduce the veckopendlingen have children has got to come to Brussels and go on to kindergarten. So work-life balance is the least complicated. If she gets re-elected waiting another five years in the european hot spot. Her core issues is the environment.”

“”Conservatives resisting””

“– The conservative group have actively been putting the brakes on climate policy, both what the EU should do and in terms of individual sectors, as diesel cars. The conflict in the field of environment between the right and the left is simply expressed between low or high ambitions, ” she says.”

“the social democrats want to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 55% by 2030. M, the KD and SD have voted no. In the long term like Jytte Guteland to have a completely climate-neutral Europe. At the same time she wants to use EU trade agreements to spread the climate policy globally in the same way as the EU has already done in the case of chemicals. The EU is the world’s largest trading bloc and have real influence in the negotiations”

“– There are political scientists who claim that the EU’s chemicals are affected more by the trade than the EU market, ” she says.”

“the Business community is far ahead of the game’

“That the right wing is interested so little, the climate is in some ways strange. At the same time, the Swedish business sector are far ahead in the transition, through the new climate-smart technology, they hope to be able to compete even when the giants such as China and India want to be in the game. They know that a small country must be first with the latest, best and most innovative. Otherwise, we will be omsprungna. The right wing is trampling around in a forty-year-old nuclear debate instead.”

“According to the UN intergovernmental panel on climate change, we have just ten years to curb climate change. Then, perhaps, it is not possible anymore.”

“So the Climate should be the biggest issue in the EUROPEAN elections. This year’s season of drought and skogbränder has already begun, the changes are no longer theories in a book. In Europe’s cities are hundreds of thousands of young people after Greta Thunberg and now requires action by the politicians.”

“Many of them have not even the right to vote in the election 26 may – but they’ll live in the future, the choice is all about.”