News about Jimmie Akesson

Sweden has been rocked by a new bout of gangland horror after a 39-year-old father was fatally shot and killed in front of his young son in broad daylight after allegedly challenging a group of youths. The victim identified in media reports only as Mikael was shot in the head just after 6pm on Wednesday evening as he cycled to a swimming pool with his child, succumbing to his injuries early Thursday, according to police. Several media outlets, including television chain TV4 and tabloids Expressen and Aftonbladet, said he was shot because he confronted the gang. Police have not confirmed those reports.

The Sweden Democrats, who are a small part of the government, have long opposed the country's membership of the European Union. However, with reports that the majority of Swedes want to stay in the bloc, the party has said it will follow the people's will rather than press for 'Swexit.' However, Jimmie Akesson (pictured), the SD party's leader, has now stated that Sweden should not allow any more power to be moved from national politicians and the country's parliament to legislators in Brussels without a referendum. The Swedish government should'take steps and take steps so that our country is ready to leave the EU,' Akesson and Charlie Weimers, a Swedish MEP, wrote.' A change in constitution would be included in the plans to facilitate withdrawal, according to the activists. Akesson and Weimers argue that doing so will place them in a better bargaining position with the bloc.

Pro-EU commentators cautioned that a eurosceptic domino effect may compel other countries to follow suit when Britain voted to leave the European Union on June 23, 2016. However, Brexit did not turn out to be the pandora's box that many European bigwigs feared, and no other member state has officially announced plans to leave the bloc. Nevertheless, euroskeptics are still alive and well across the continent, with Jimmie Akesson, Sweden's second largest political party's leader, saying this week that there are 'good reasons to seriously reevaluate our membership in the union'. And also some of the EU's most influential and long-serving members continue to have reservations about the bloc's involvement in their nations' affairs.

Jimmie Akesson, echoing eurosceptics around the continent, said the European Union's ever-expanding power meant 'German, Polish, or French politicians, who would decide which car you should buy, how expensive petrol should be, and which tree you can cut down on your own house.' As part of a reintegration of ties with the 27-member bloc, the leader of the Sweden Democrats, who form an informal part of the government, said the country should request further exemptions from EU legislation. Akesson, Sweden's right-of-centre government, stopped short of asking for 'Swexit', a referendum on whether or not to leave the European Union, as British voters did in 2016. However, he said that the EU was heading in the wrong direction.

The heir to the throne wore a stunning pink Camilla Thulin gown, paired with the Diamond Six Button Tiara, a diamond necklace and earrings, the Sash and Star of the Order of the Seraphim and King Carl Gustaf's Portrait Brooch. Queen Silvia (pictured right in purple) and King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden were awarded the Nobel Prizes at the annual Stockholm City Hall, with Victoria, 45, and her husband Prince Daniel (pictured right).

As Giorgia Meloni's far-right Brothers of Italy eked to victory in September, cheers erupted and there was a sea of red, white, and green. The 45-year-old hardcore Catholic (left) is now expected to become the country's first female Prime Minister and the country's first right-wing leader since Mussolini, according to the vatican. Following her meteoric rise of her party, her surprising triumph sparked suspicion among some world leaders, including in the United States, where President Joe Biden said the result should act as a warning to American democracy. But it came as no surprise to many in Italy, as well as Europe as a whole, where voters are fed up with elitist politicians who don't appear to worry about their hardships or the effects that immigration and the cost-of-living crisis are having on their lives. According to political observers, left-wing parties and governments are unincapable of providing answers to the problems that ordinary people are worried about. Many voters have shifted to right-wing parties, including Meloni's Brothers of Italy, due to their annoyance and fear of being dismissed as 'uneducated.' Voters from Italy to Sweden have voted right-wing parties into leadership in Europe's space in the space of a few short months. Pictured: Swedish Democrats leader Jimmie Akesson (top right), Hungarian PM Viktor Orban (inset) and protests in Malmo after far-right activists burned a copy of the Koran (bottom right)

The Swedish Democrats chief Jimmie Akesson said in a tweet echoing former US President Donald Trump's "make America great again" proclamation, that negotiations with a new government would be a lengthy process. Never before has a Swedish government depended on the help of anti-immigration and nationalist Sweden Democrats, who have emerged as the primary winners of the election. With the overwhelming majority of votes counted, the party emerged as Sweden's second largest party behind the Social Democrats, who have ruled Swedish politics since the 1930s.

With a majority of 176 of 349 seats in parliament, the right wing bloc was credited with a majority, with the left bloc trailing with 173. With the election too close to calling, election officials said they did not expect a final result until Wednesday, when the last ballots from abroad and advance voting had been counted. Nonetheless, the nefarious, anti-immigration Sweden Democrats were unquestionably the night's greatest winners, with a strong showing of nearly 21%, their highest result (party leader Jimmie Akesson pictured centre). The party gained on promises to crack down on shootings and other gang violence, which have shaken a sense of security for many in Sweden (top right: Moderate leader Ulf Kristersson, bottom right: Social Democrat leader and PM Magdalena Andersson)