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Alice Teodorescu Måwe
MEP
Alice Teodorescu Måwe MEP
	Official portrait, 2024
Member of the European Parliament; for Sweden
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 16 July 2024
Personal details
Born	Alice Alexandra Teodorescu; 2 May 1984 (age 40); Bucharest, Romania
Citizenship	Sweden • Romania
Political party	Christian Democrats (2024–present)
Other political; affiliations	Moderate Party (2019–2024)
Spouse	Henrik Måwe (m. 2019)
Alma mater	Lund University
Occupation	Politician

Alice Alexandra Teodorescu Måwe (born 2 May 1984) is a Swedish politician and former legal professional with the Företagarna organisation of Swedish entrepreneurs and a liberal-conservative commentator on social and political issues. Since 2024, she is a Member of the European Parliament.

Early life

Alice Teodorescu was born in Bucharest, Romania.^[1] She attended the Sture Academy, a training programme for young people run by liberal think tank Timbro.^[1]^[2]

Career

After completing her legal training, she worked as an intern in the Brussels office of Svenskt Näringsliv and then became a communication strategist for the newspaper.^[1] She has also been an editorial writer for newspapers including Barometern in Oskarshamn and Gotlands Allehanda.^[3]^[4] In 2009, she founded a women's network called En plats i himlen för kvinnor som hjälper varandra (a place in heaven for women who help each other).^[5]

Teodorescu criticised gender quotas on corporate boards and advocated a policy of equality based on individualism rather than collectivism. She has also written on integration and education. In February 2014 she attracted much attention by calling in a debate on the Sveriges Radio channel 1 programme P1 Debatt for a clear definition of the term "racism" and questioning whether racism in Sweden was structural.^[2]^[6]^[7]^[8] She also argued that it was time for a more nuanced, less dogmatic and polarising debate on the issue.^[9] During the Almedalen week in June and July 2014 Ali Esbati refused to shake hands with Teodorescu after a live broadcast debate between the two, this after a discussion about racism in Sweden.^[10] After the debate both Teodorescu and Esbati received criticism for not considering each other's opinions.^[11] In a subsequent opinion piece in Svenska Dagbladet, Teodorescu complained about what she saw as the lenient treatment of the Green Party by the press.^[12]

In 2019 Teodorescu married pianist Henrik Måwe at Lund Cathedral, after which she also assumed his surname.^[13]

Teodorescu Måwe was running to become a Member of the European Parliament for the Christian Democrats in the upcoming EP elections for 2024.^[14] She replaced Sara Skyttedal as the party's top name for the election.^[14]^[15] She was voted into the parliament as the only Christian Democrat and took office on 16 July 2024. ^[16]

During the ongoing war in the Middle East since 2023, Teodorescu Måwe has taken a strong pro-Israel stance in the public debate in Sweden. In 2024, she proposed that everyone, especially immigrants from the Levant who becomes a citizen of Sweden must recognize Israel as a state. In an interview with Swedish Television, she said: "Many of those who engage in "Hamas-hugging" in these demonstrations also do not support other values that we take for granted in a Swedish context".^[17]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Hagenblad, Åsa (2 May 2009). "Drömde om en karriär som diplomat". Sydsvenskan (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 17 July 2014. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
^ ^a ^b "De obekväma: Alice Teodorescu" (in Swedish). Sveriges Utbildningsradio. 18 April 2014. Archived from the original on 4 July 2014. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
^ "Alice Teodorescu". Helsingborgs Dagblad (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 20 May 2014. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
^ "Ny på ledarsidan: Alice Teodorescu" (in Swedish). Helagotland.se. 6 July 2010. Archived from the original on 18 July 2014. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
^ Teodorescu, Alice. "Nätverkets Historia" (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 16 September 2014. Retrieved 15 July 2014. Enplatsihimlen.se
^ Teodorescu, Alice (3 February 2014). "Antirasister och rasister gör gemensam sak" (in Swedish). Sveriges Television. Archived from the original on 17 July 2014. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
^ Pascalidou, Alexandra; Welander, Louise; Löfgren, Marie-Jeanette (4 February 2014). "Vi ber om ursäkt, Alice Teodorescu" (in Swedish). Sveriges Television. Archived from the original on 17 July 2014. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
^ "P1 ber om ursäkt efter rasismdebatt". Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). 4 February 2014. Archived from the original on 2 March 2014. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
^ "P1 Debatt: Hur mycket rasism tål Sverige?" (in Swedish). Sveriges radio. 2 February 2014. Archived from the original on 17 July 2014. Retrieved 18 April 2014.
^ Britts, Malvina (4 July 2014). "Vägrade skaka hand efter storbråk i sändning". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 7 July 2014. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
^ Andersson, Robert (12 July 2014). "Inte ens när värden som mångfald" (in Swedish). Nyheter24. Archived from the original on 8 July 2015. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
^ Teodorescu, Alice (18 July 2014). "Varför tar inte journalisterna MP på allvar?". Svenska Dagbladet. Archived from the original on 27 July 2014. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
^ Gerdemark
^ ^a ^b "Skyttedal petad – Alice Teodorescu nytt toppnamn för KD i EU-valet". Europaportalen. Retrieved 23 May 2024.
^ Parham, Babak (23 May 2024). Christian Democrats: "We need a new way of seeking asylum". Retrieved 13 June 2024 – via Sveriges Radio.
^ "Glädje på KD-vaka trots tappad EU-plats". Göteborgs-Posten. 9 June 2024. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
^ Sjödin, Kajsa; Törnmalm, Kristoffer (28 October 2024). "KD-toppen: Personer som ansöker om medborgarskap ska erkänna Israel". SVT Nyheter (in Swedish). Retrieved 9 December 2024.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)