Eva-Britt Svensson [SEP] occupation
Eva-Britt Svensson
Eva-Britt Svensson (born 5 December 1946 in Värnamo, Småland) is a Swedish politician and former Member of the European Parliament. She is a member of the Left Party.
Svensson has been vice-chair of the GUE/NGL group, and chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality. She was also a member of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, a substitute for the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, a member of
votes to 89 votes over his opponent Eva-Britt Svensson (EUL-NGL, Sweden).
The two candidates were:
- For the right of centre European People's Party, former Polish PM Jerzy Buzek was nominated by his group EPP-ED and supported by the PES and ALDE groups.
- On the left, Swedish MEP Eva Britt Svensson was nominated by her group EUL-NGL.
MEPs voted in a secret ballot on Tuesday morning 14 July 2009.
The two largest groups in Parliament