30 Facts About Charlie Weimers

Charlie Andreas Weimers was born on 12 November 1982 and is a Swedish politician and Member of the European Parliament from Sweden since 2019.

Charlie Weimers was re-elected in the 2024 European Parliament election in Sweden.

Charlie Weimers is a member of the Sweden Democrats, part of European Conservatives and Reformists.

Charlie Weimers subsequently worked as a public relations consultant for a marketing company and then as a political secretary to former Christian Democrats chairman Goran Hagglund and as a staffer for Lars Adaktusson.

Charlie Weimers was a volunteer for the College Republicans during his studies in America.

Charlie Weimers served as the district chairman of KDU-Varmland from 2000 to 2001 and again from 2003 to 2004.

Charlie Weimers was elected vice president of the Youth of the European People's Party at the 6th YEPP Congress in Stockholm in May 2007.

Charlie Weimers was elected to the KDU national board in 2003.

Charlie Weimers lost a close race for chairmanship of the KDU in 2005 to Ella Bohlin, a more centrist candidate.

Charlie Weimers was later elected first vice chairman of KDU at the national convention in 2005.

Charlie Weimers was elected to the Hammaro Municipal Council in 2002.

Charlie Weimers was elected again in 2006, and currently serves as party leader for the Christian Democrats in the council.

Charlie Weimers has been a member of the Varmland Regional Council since 2006.

Charlie Weimers was elected chairman of the KDU in 2008.

On 6 September 2018, Charlie Weimers announced he had joined the Sweden Democrats.

Charlie Weimers is a member of the European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs and of the Delegation to Iraq and a substitute member of the European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and Delegation to the US.

In March 2024, Charlie Weimers was one of twenty MEPs to be given a "Rising Star" award at The Parliament Magazine's annual MEP Awards.

On 26 October 2022 the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran announced that Charlie Weimers was one of six Members of the European Parliament personally sanctioned in retaliation for EU sanctions announced on 17 October.

Charlie Weimers is co-chair of the European Conservatives and Reformists Migration Working Group.

Charlie Weimers has called on the EU to build a wall on its border with Turkey and adopt a migration policy based on the Australian model.

Charlie Weimers has called for the EU-commission to change its position and support financing of physical border barriers.

Charlie Weimers argues that population growth in Africa will force a new asylum system in the EU and that it should build on the principles of the Danish asylum plan.

In 2022, Charlie Weimers proposed that the EU urgently launch wide-reaching Australia-style communication campaigns targeting diaspora communities, transit countries and countries of origin to deter illegal migration and people smuggling.

Charlie Weimers sought to delete the section empowering the European Commission to "borrow funds on the capital markets on behalf of the Union up to an amount of EUR 750 000 000 000" from the agreement underpinning Next Generation EU.

In February 2021 Charlie Weimers published an essay arguing for a referendum lock that would limit transfers of power and urging other net-paying member states to do the same.

In October 2021, Charlie Weimers called on a potential future conservative Swedish government to ensure the Swedish public will have a say on the issue of enlargement of the EU to include the Western Balkan countries Albania, Serbia, Montenegro and North Macedonia by activating a "referendum lock".

Charlie Weimers was the rapporteur for the first ever European Parliament report on EU-Taiwan relations.

In October 2021, Charlie Weimers announced that his initiative to establish a Special Committee to examine the origins of COVID-19 and EU funding for the Wuhan Institute of Virology had received preliminary support from a majority of political groups in the European Parliament and that a formal decision to establish the committee is expected in the autumn of 2021.

In February 2022 Charlie Weimers informed the public that leftist forces in the European Parliament most likely will succeed in watering down his original proposal for a Special Committee.

In February 2022 Charlie Weimers announced that the conservative group had managed secure agreement in the European Parliament to add the specific mention of the origins of COVID-19 "in Wuhan, China" to the Annual report 2021 on the implementation of the Common Security and Defence Policy.