Bodil Valero

Bodil Valero
MEP
Member of the European Parliament
Assumed office
1 July 2014
Constituency Sweden
Member of the Swedish Parliament
In office
2006–2014
Constituency Gävleborg
Personal details
Born Bodil Lundström
(1958-05-14) 14 May 1958
Jönköping, Sweden
Political party  Swedish
Green Party
 EU
European Green Party
Alma mater Amsterdam University
Website Official website

Bodil Valero (born 14 May 1958) is a Swedish politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Sweden.[1] She is a member of the Green Party, part of the European Green Party.[2] Valero serves as the green coordinator in the Security and Defence Committee (SEDE).

She also serves a member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) and the Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (DACP) and as substitute in the Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET), the Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America (DCAM) and the Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (DLAT)[2]

In addition to her committee assignments, Valero serves as vice-chairwoman of the European Parliament Intergroup on the Western Sahara.[3]

Profile issues

Valero works with the rights of refugees and migrants and for legal roads in the EU. She advocates an open and humane migration policy and has criticized the EU's Migration Policy Agreement with Turkey, in favor of Member States sharing responsibility for refugee reception.

Valero has been committed to minority rights, including Kurds, Assyrians / Syrians and Romans.

Since 2014, she has been the green representative in the negotiations on the European Parliament's annual report on Turkey's accession negotiations.

As reporter for the European Parliament's Annual Report on Arms Export.

References

  1. ↑ "Bodil VALERO - Home - MEPs - European Parliament". www.europarl.europa.eu. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
  2. 1 2 "Bodil VALERO - History of parliamentary service - MEPs - European Parliament". www.europarl.europa.eu. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
  3. ↑ Members European Parliament Intergroup on Western Sahara.



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