in early 2020. Special Committee in the European Parliament to investigate the origins of COVID-19 In October 2021, Weimers announced that his initiative to establish a Special Committee to examine the origins of COVID-19 and EU funding for the Wuhan Institute of Virology had received preliminary support from a majority of political groups in the European Parliament and that a formal decision to establish the committee is expected in the autumn of 2021. 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. In February 2022 Weimers announced that the conservative group had managed secure agreement in the European Parliament to add the specific mention of the origins of COVID-19 "in Wuhan, China" to the Annual report 2021 on the implementation of the Common Security and Defence Policy. References 1982 births Living people Christian Democrats (Sweden) politicians People from Karlstad MEPs for Sweden 2019–2024 Sweden Democrats MEPs Swedish city councillors