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Sweden Democrats supporters ahead of the 2014 EU election (Photo: Wikimedia)

Sweden's far-right is most anti-Green Deal party in EU

Since 2020, the Sweden Democrats have voted the most against environmental regulations regarding or involving the Green Deal. Out of the 222 times the Sweden Democrats voted, 69.4 percent of the votes were against these green legislation.

The Green Deal is a plan proposed by the European Parliament so the EU has no net emission of greenhouse gasses by 2050 and a more circular economy. The Green Deal, which began in 2020 with a budget of €503bn, will affect every corner of Europe's econ...

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Greta Hirschberg and Anna Hallgren. Data analysis by Marine Delrue. This article is part of the "Crossborder Journalism Campus", an Erasmus+ project of the University of Gothenburg, Leipzig University and Centre de Formation des Journalistes in Paris. Additional reporting: Marine Delrue, Lena Eggert, Chiara Sterk, Claudia Karmann and Ange Torlotting.

Sweden Democrats supporters ahead of the 2014 EU election (Photo: Wikimedia)

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Greta Hirschberg and Anna Hallgren. Data analysis by Marine Delrue. This article is part of the "Crossborder Journalism Campus", an Erasmus+ project of the University of Gothenburg, Leipzig University and Centre de Formation des Journalistes in Paris. Additional reporting: Marine Delrue, Lena Eggert, Chiara Sterk, Claudia Karmann and Ange Torlotting.

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