Lars Adaktusson


Lars Göran Peter Adaktusson is a Swedish politician and a former Member of the European Parliament from Sweden. He was elected Member of the Riksdag in the 2018 general election. He is a member of the Christian Democrats, part of the European People's Party.

Early career

An employee of public broadcaster Sveriges Television for many years, Adaktusson has worked both as a reporter and a news anchor for the nightly news show Aktuellt, and has in addition also been stationed as a foreign correspondent in Vienna, Washington DC, and in Amman.

Member of the European Parliament

Adaktusson was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in the 2014 European Parliament elections in Sweden. He has since been serving on the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Subcommittee on Human Rights. In addition to his committee assignments, he serves as vice-chairman of the parliament's delegation for relations with Afghanistan.
In February 2016, Adaktusson tabled a resolution recognizing the Islamic State militant group's systematic killing and persecution of religious minorities in the Middle East as a genocide, which the European Parliament unanimously passed.