Malmström handed weighty policy portfolio

Police, migration and organized crime? These are the ones that Sweden has shown to be completely unproductive on over the years. Some say clueless!

Still a bit of diplomacy and a lot of Hmmmm's should get her through her spell.

No wonder Britain doesn't want to be part of any federation run by bureaucratic diplomats at the helm.

Police, migration and organised crime, in the hands of a wet swedish liberal...god help what's left of civilised europe.

I hope this is mean't to be a joke story.

In Sweden criminals have carte blanche to do as they please.

Lingonberrie is on the right track, and the slide of the US and Europe into second rate ungovernable liberal impotence is creating a vacuum worldwide, currently being filled by several extreme players and the next few years are going to throw up a lot of bad and dangerous surprises for the west, all of its own making.

@ lingonberrie

I see your friends at the local have deleted my previous comment, suggesting you see a psychiatrist for putting up crazy conspiracy theories. Styrangely at the local they do not delete your obviously unhinged american conspiracy theory.

That I have taken note of.

@lingonberrie

I have had a bad feeling about Obama from the beginning. Nothing I can put my finger on. Call it hocus-pocus, gut feeling or whatever you want.

In any case, the only relevance of my comment to follow to the above statement is to point out that I am not an Obama supporter.

However, you display the same short-sightedness as many millions of people around the world who are unhappy about how their government is running things. These people always jump to voting for the opposition when this happens. Never happy, always complaining.

Same situation goes for those who criticize the curent government in Sweden.

There's only one thing people often forget to look at: the mess is usually created over years, sometimes even decades. It takes AT LEAST twice as long to fix a mess than it does to create it in the first place.

You can't just reverse everything from one day to the other. Bad decisions were taken to implement policy which is now ingrained in the system. Reverse or pull out one piece unxepectedly and you can create a collapse of the whole system. Things have to be done slowly.

People seem to want their newly-elected to perform miracles and fix all the mess overnight. When they can't do that, the people get impatient and vote again on the ones who created the mess in the first place.

This creates two situations:

1. You never give anyone enough time to fix the mess.

2. You perpetuate the mess you are against in the first place.