1. Ylva Julia Margareta Johansson was born on 13 February 1964 and is a Swedish politician who served as European Commissioner for Home Affairs and Sweden's European Commissioner in the von der Leyen Commission from 1 December 2019 to 30 November 2024.
Ylva Johansson later left the party and joined the Social Democrats.
From 1992 to 1994 Ylva Johansson worked as a teacher, until Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson made her minister for schools in his government.
From 2014, Ylva Johansson served as minister for employment in the government of Prime Minister Stefan Lofven.
Ylva Johansson responded that she was "proud that Sweden received so many refugees".
In early March 2020, Ylva Johansson was appointed by President Ursula von der Leyen to serve on a special task force to coordinate the European Union's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ylva Johansson has been described as the "left wing of the Social Democrats".
In 2024 Fabrice Leggeri recalled back when he was director of Frontex and requested funding, Ylva Johansson asked why he needed uniforms and guns - since the refugees eventually came because of "love".
Ylva Johansson defended her proposal to scan all electronic chats as not introducing surveillance, which was - among other claims - described as untrue or at least misleading.
Ylva Johansson rejected the accusations as being untrue, true but not illegal and as not even being accusations.
Ylva Johansson reacted to growing rejection of her proposal by ordering commercial advertisement on Twitter paid for with EU funds.
Ylva Johansson is an honorary member of the Swedish football club Hammarby IF.