Charlie Andreas Weimers (born 12 November 1982) is a Swedish politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Sweden since 2019.
He subsequently worked as a public relations consultant for a marketing company and then as a political secretary to former Christian Democrats chairman Göran Hägglund and as a staffer for Lars Adaktusson.
During his time in the KDU, he was seen as part of a force along with future leader Ebba Busch Thor to shift the party to the right and in a more conservative direction by calling for stricter punishments for violent crime, preservation of Swedish culture and for Sweden to consider NATO membership.
"[16][17] In March 2024, Weimers was one of twenty MEPs to be given a "Rising Star" award at The Parliament Magazine's annual MEP Awards[18] On 26 October 2022 the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran announced that Weimers was one of six Members of the European Parliament personally sanctioned in retaliation for EU sanctions announced on 17 October.
[26] Following hybrid warfare operations by Belarus against Poland, Lithuania and Latvia during 2021 and 2022, similar proposals enjoy support by a dozen EU Member States.
[27] A survey of 10 EU Member States conducted in late 2021 showed broad public support for EU-financing of physical border barriers.
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.
They propose the introduction of a referendum lock modeled on the UK European Union Act 2011 and call for Swedish EU-exit to be enabled by removing references to membership in the constitution in order to signal to Brussels that Sweden is willing to walk away from the table.
[37][38][39] In February 2021 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.
The government of Taiwan praised the adoption of the report calling it a "history-making text, adroitly drafted by @weimers, charts a course for the development of bilateral relations.
[48] In February 2022 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.
[50] On 19 April 2022, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, when German Bundestag member Tino Chrupalla from right-wing populist party AfD praised Chancellor Olaf Scholz's decision not to send heavy weapons to Ukraine and demanded for sanctions against Russia to be ended and peace negotiations to start, Weimers responded by quoting Prussian General Carl von Clausewitz: "The Conqueror is always a lover of peace: he would prefer to take over our country unopposed" and commented that "patriots should stand with patriots, not with imperialists like Vladimir Putin.