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Borg calls on EU partners to disclose deficit cuts

Business & Money: 17 May 10
Sweden's Finance Minister Anders Borg has demanded that Spain and Portugal disclose their plans to reduce budget deficits at a meeting of eurozone finance ministers in Brussels that begins later on Monday. READ »

'Don't force mothers to stay at home'

Analysis & Opinion: 25 Feb 10
The European Commission's proposed new directive on maternity leave is well-meaning but fatally flawed, argues Minister for EU Affairs Birgitta Ohlsson. READ »

From Silicon Valley to Stockholm: Meeting the US Ambassador, Part 1

Analysis & Opinion: 28 Dec 09
In Part 1 of a two-part interview, The Local's David Landes speaks to new US Ambassador Matthew Barzun about fundraising for Obama, adjusting to life in Sweden, Alfred Nobel's legacy, and engaging citizens in online networks. READ »

Sweden slapped with hefty Development Days limousine bill

Politics: 22 Dec 09
Sweden has received a bill of almost 3.5 million kronor ($480,000) limousine services transporting delegates during a five-day summit meeting of European development aid ministers hosted this autumn by the Swedish EU presidency. READ »

Opposition poll lead 'very worrying': Reinfeldt

Politics: 14 Dec 09
Swedish prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has admitted he is concerned by poll results showing the opposition in a commanding lead over the centre-right coalition government. READ »

EU pledges climate cash to poor nations: Reinfeldt

Business & Money: 11 Dec 09
Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has announced that the European Union's member states have agreed to give $10.6 billion to help developing nations tackle climate change. READ »

Reinfeldt calls on US to raise climate targets

Politics: 10 Dec 09
Swedish Prime Minster Fredrik Reinfeldt implored the United States on Wednesday to implement more ambitious goals for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. READ »

Sweden pledges billions in climate aid

Politics: 10 Dec 09
Sweden has agreed to provide the EU with 8 billion kronor ($1.12 billion) to help developing countries cope with the effects of climate change, the government announced on Wednesday. READ »

Big fat Greek bailout 'unlikely': Borg

Business & Money: 9 Dec 09
Sweden’s finance minister Anders Borg warned Greece on Wednesday that European countries were unlikely to help the Mediterranean nation solve its current budget crisis. READ »

UK MPs back Swedish presidency on Jerusalem

Politics: 7 Dec 09
A group of nearly 50 members of the British parliament have written a letter voicing their support for a controversial Swedish EU presidency proposal to recognize East Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state. READ »

Nobel Week kicks off with feast and fancy

Society: 6 Dec 09
Nobel Week is once again in full swing, with the 12 Nobel laureates and their respective entourages arriving in the Swedish capital over the weekend. The week’s festivities will culminate with the Nobel Ceremony and Banquet on Thursday. READ »

Reinfeldt hails first day of EU's Lisbon Treaty

Politics: 1 Dec 09
Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt welcomed “a new era” for the European Union on Tuesday, the first day the changes laid out in the Lisbon Treaty came into force. READ »

Sweden reaches deal over top EU positions

Politics: 20 Nov 09
Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has announced that Belgian Prime Minister Herman van Rompuy will be the first permanent President of the European Council following negotiations in Brussels on Thursday evening. READ »

Bildt fears insipid EU top job compromise

Politics: 19 Nov 09
Sweden's foreign minister Carl Bildt has given voice to apprehensions that the EU may settle on an uninspiring compromise candidate for the new post of president when the union's leaders meet in Brussels on Thursday. READ »

EU expresses Russia human rights concerns

Politics: 18 Nov 09
Swedish prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt expressed concern on Wednesday over human rights deficiencies in Russia. Reinfeldt, whose country holds the rotating EU presidency, was speaking at the end of an EU-Russia summit. READ »

Swedish culture – a forgotten promotional tool

Analysis & Opinion: 18 Nov 09
Sweden’s cultural heritage is virtually unknown outside the country’s borders. Swedes should be better at using culture to promote their own country, writes Olle Wästberg, Director-General of the Swedish Institute. READ »

Sweden hopes gas talks don't turn poisonous at EU-Russia summit

Analysis & Opinion: 16 Nov 09
EU and Russian leaders will open summit talks in Sweden on Wednesday in an atmosphere clouded by uneasy relations between Moscow and Stockholm over human rights and last's year's war in Georgia. READ »

Israel accuses Sweden of 'diplomatic coup'

National: 14 Nov 09
Israel has accused Sweden of trying to change the EU’s stance on Jerusalem and refer to the city as the official capital of Israel and Palestine while at the helm of the rotating EU presidency. READ »

Sweden calls summit over EU top jobs

Politics: 11 Nov 09
Sweden, which currently hold the rotating EU presidency, has called an extraordinary meeting in Brussels next week with the aim of presenting candidates for the new positions of president and foreign policy chief. READ »

Social Democrats slam Nord Stream approval

Business & Money: 6 Nov 09
Sweden’s decision to allow the Russian-led Nord Stream gas pipeline to pass through its territorial waters has prompted a scathing response from the political opposition. READ »

Reinfeldt warns India of climate change dangers

Politics: 6 Nov 09
Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt on Friday cautioned India about the impact of climate change if upcoming UN climate talks fail to produce a new agreement to reduce emissions. READ »

Reinfeldt criticizes US climate bill

Politics: 5 Nov 09
Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt on Thursday criticized US efforts to adopt new climate change legislation, casting fresh doubt on whether the upcoming Copenhagen conference would result in a binding deal on carbon emission cuts. READ »

Sweden gives all clear to Baltic Sea gas pipeline

National: 5 Nov 09
The Swedish government on Thursday gave its permission for German firm Nord Stream AG to lay down pipelines for transporting natural gas from Russia to Germany through the Swedish economic zone of the Baltic Sea. READ »

Morocco expels Swedish diplomat

National: 5 Nov 09
Morocco on Wednesday ordered the immediate departure of a Swedish diplomat accused of handing over official Moroccan documents to Western Saharan separatists. READ »

Sweden hails Balkan border deal

Politics: 4 Nov 09
Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt on Wednesday oversaw a deal aimed at resolving a divisive border dispute between Croatia and Slovenia. READ »

Swedish relief as Czechs sign Lisbon Treaty

Politics: 3 Nov 09
The Swedish EU presidency can begin its hunt for a new EU Council president after Czech President Vaclav Klaus put pen to paper on Tuesday to make his country the last in the union to sign the Lisbon Treaty. READ »

Reinfeldt targets US and China in climate message

Politics: 3 Nov 09
Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt on Tuesday put pressure on both the United States and China to do more to fight climate change ahead of a UN-sponsored summit on the issue set to take place in Copenhagen in December. READ »

Reinfeldt urges EU unity on climate change aid

Politics: 29 Oct 09
Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt pushed European leaders to commit to concrete figures for helping poor countries fight climate change as EU heads gathered for a summit in Brussels on Thursday. READ »

Bildt's inaction breeds suspicion in Israel

Politics: 26 Oct 09
Israel’s government remains surprised that Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt has yet to reschedule a previously cancelled trip to Israel. READ »

Czechs praise Swedish input on Lisbon treaty

National: 23 Oct 09
Sweden was lauded on Friday by the Czech President Vaclav Klaus for framing a solution to his demands for an opt-out from the bloc's Lisbon Treaty. READ »

Sweden slams Zimbabwe over PM aide arrest

National: 16 Oct 09
The Swedish EU Presidency has slammed a decision by a Zimbabwe court to send a close aide to Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai to jail, calling it an act of "politically motivated abuse." READ »

Sweden cautions Czechs over Lisbon 'opt outs'

Politics: 9 Oct 09
The Swedish EU presidency has cautioned the Czechs that their demands for an extra "footnote" on the Lisbon treaty sends out "the wrong message at the wrong time". READ »

Sweden pushes India and China to act on climate

Politics: 26 Sep 09
Sweden is calling for less talk and more action from major emerging economies in climate issues after Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt raised concerns over progress while addressing world leaders this week. READ »

Sweden wants EU 'snus' tobacco ban to go up in smoke

Analysis & Opinion: 15 Sep 09
As countries across the EU curb smoking in public, Sweden is fighting to get a European-wide ban lifted moist tobacco, AFP's Marc Preel reports. READ »

Sweden refuses SA request to drop Zimbabwe sanctions

Politics: 12 Sep 09
The Swedish EU presidency has resisted pressure from South African President Jacob Zuma to drop sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe. Development aid minister Gunilla Carlsson will meanwhile head an EU delegation to Harare on Saturday. READ »

EU to offer billions in climate aid to poor nations: Reinfeldt

Politics: 10 Sep 09
Swedish prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt on Wednesday announced plans for the European Union to offer developing countries €15 billion ($22 billion) a year to help combat climate change. READ »

Paul Simon speaks out on Swedish theatre ban

National: 7 Sep 09
Paul Simon has said he had nothing to do with steps taken by Universal Music to block a Stockholm performance of The Sound of Silence, a play by a Latvian theatre company based around the music of Simon & Garfunkel. READ »

Israel: Bildt to scrap scheduled visit

Politics: 6 Sep 09
Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt has cancelled his upcoming visit to Israel, the Israeli foreign ministry announced on Sunday, amid strained relations between the two countries over a controversial newspaper story. READ »

Sweden says EU ready for 'talks or confrontation' with Iran

Politics: 5 Sep 09
The Swedish EU presidency is ready to talk to or confront Iran over its nuclear programme, characterizing as a “provocation” the appointment of a terror suspect as the country’s defense minister. READ »

Reinfeldt calls September EU summit

Politics: 4 Sep 09
Sweden's prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has called a an extraordinary EU summit on September 17th to prepare for the upcoming G20 summit in Pittsburgh, the Swedish EU presidency announced in a statement on Friday. READ »

Sweden navigates complex waters of EU foreign policy

Analysis & Opinion: 3 Sep 09
With an important meeting of EU's foreign ministers taking place in Stockholm this weekend, David Stavrou examines the changing roles of Sweden and the EU in world affairs. READ »

Bildt to Afghanistan for talks

Politics: 31 Aug 09
Foreign Minister Carl Bildt arrived in Kabul on Sunday to begin two days of talks with international representatives and Afghanistan's president and foreign minister. READ »

Sweden mulls EU summit to discuss crisis

Politics: 26 Aug 09
The Swedish EU presidency is considering calling an extraordinary EU summit in September to find common ground ahead of a G20 meeting about the global economic crisis in Pittsburgh. READ »

Swedish tabloid reported for racial agitation

National: 25 Aug 09
Swedish tabloid newspaper Aftonbladet has been reported to the Chancellor of Justice after publishing an article forwarding claims about the alleged organ harvesting of dead Palestinians by Israeli defence forces. READ »

Sweden announces EU immigration reform plans

Politics: 25 Aug 09
The Swedish EU presidency announced on Monday that proposals to reform immigration policy will be presented in September. READ »

Reinfeldt rejects Israeli calls to condemn paper

National: 24 Aug 09
Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt rejected demands from Israel on Monday to condemn claims put forward in an article in a Swedish tabloid about alleged organ harvesting. READ »

Israel presses Sweden for 'condemnation'

Politics: 23 Aug 09
Israel on Sunday ratcheted up pressure on Sweden to condemn a Swedish newspaper report about alleged organ harvesting that has heightened tensions between the two countries. READ »

Presidency condemns Iran executions

Politics: 6 Aug 09
The Swedish EU presidency has spoken out against Iran's recent execution of 24 people by hanging. READ »

Developing world to wait for climate change cash

Politics: 26 Jul 09
Developing countries may have to wait until December UN climate talks before being told how much EU money will be available to help fight the effects of global warming, the Swedish EU presidency said on Saturday. READ »

Anders Borg: Sweden's long-haired maverick minister

Analysis & Opinion: 22 Jul 09
With Anders Borg, Sweden’s pony-tailed Minister of Finance, now helping the EU navigate through the global economic slump, the AFP’s Marc Preel takes a look back at the rise of this self-described pragmatist. READ »

Bildt: Iranian government facing 'legitimacy' issues

Politics: 22 Jul 09
Speaking for the EU Presidency, Sweden's Carl Bildt reiterated on Tuesday that the government of Iran was dealing with questions about its legitimacy in the eyes of its voters. READ »

EU mulls diplomatic pullout in Iran: Sweden

Politics: 3 Jul 09
The Swedish Foreign Ministry has said the EU is considering taking action if Iran fails to release British embassy staff being held in the capital Tehran. READ »

Russia snubs Sweden summit plans

Politics: 1 Jul 09
Sweden's fraught relationship with Moscow has come to the fore on the first day of the Swedish EU presidency as Russia objects to plans to hold a major summit in Stockholm. READ »

Sweden urges EU states to tighten belts

Politics: 1 Jul 09
Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has said the country's EU presidency will push member states to curtail spending and work towards sustaining public finances across the union. READ »

Sweden takes over EU presidency

Politics: 1 Jul 09
Sweden on Wednesday assumed the six-month rotating presidency of the European Union, promising to combat climate change as well as the rising joblessness in the wake of the global economic crisis. READ »

Reinfeldt and Bildt: tactician and veteran diplomat at EU helm

Analysis & Opinion: 30 Jun 09
A calculating tactician and an impulsive veteran: Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt and Foreign Minister Carl Bildt are Sweden's tag team for the upcoming EU presidency, writes AFP's Pia Ohlin. READ »

European leaders impatient for Swedish EU presidency

National: 28 Jun 09
European leaders have expressed impatience for the Swedish EU presidency to start after a troubled six months under the Czechs. READ »

Euro support hits six-year high: poll

Business & Money: 23 Jun 09
Support for Sweden joining the eurozone has reached its highest point since the 2003 referendum, with voters in favour of retaining the krona maintaining a lead of just one percentage point in a new poll. READ »

Sweden braces for 'trying' EU presidency

Politics: 23 Jun 09
Financial crisis, climate change and the possibility of a fast-tracked Icelandic membership are at the top of Sweden's agenda when it takes over the EU Presidency in July. READ »

Keg of Czech beer marks EU presidency handover

Politics: 21 Jun 09
Sweden accepted the EU presidency on Saturday with the symbolic handover of a barrel of Czech beer. READ »

Reinfeldt pushes for carbon tax in Europe

Politics: 10 Jun 09
Speaking in Brussels in Tuesday, Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt urged other countries in Europe to implement a tax on carbon dioxide to help reduce greenhouse gases emissions. READ »

Economic crisis tops Sweden's EU presidency agenda

Analysis & Opinion: 5 Jun 09
Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt and Minister of Finance Anders Borg outline Sweden's priorities for the upcoming EU presidency. READ »

Sarkozy snubs Sweden: French press

Politics: 29 May 09
French president Nicolas Sarkozy has cancelled an official visit to Sweden in reaction to comments made by Sweden's foreign minister advocating Turkish EU membership, according to French media reports. READ »

Reinfeldt extracts EU presidency 'truce' from opposition

Politics: 6 May 09
Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt on Tuesday urged party leaders from the political opposition to agree to a truce on contentious domestic issues during Sweden’s upcoming European Union (EU) presidency. READ »

EU commissioner Wallström praises Swedish government

Politics: 4 May 09
The Alliance government is doing a better job in the EU than the previous Social Democratic government headed by Göran Persson, the Swedish EU commissioner and Social Democrat Margot Wallström has said. READ »

'Unity in Cyprus a chance for peace': Bildt

National: 25 Apr 09
Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt declared on Friday that the negotiations on reunification in Cyprus brokered by the UN offer an unprecedented chance for peace in the region as a whole. READ »

Reinfeldt: 'Turkey belongs to Europe'

Politics: 22 Apr 09
Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt on Tuesday expressed his support for Turkey’s bid to join the European Union. READ »

Sweden plans for move to heart of Europe

Analysis & Opinion: 14 Apr 09
With just a couple of months remaining until Sweden assumes the reins of the EU presidency, The Local's Thanh Dinh speaks to Minister for EU Affairs Cecilia Malmström about the challenges ahead. READ »

'You couldn't hope for a better presidency'

Analysis & Opinion: 1 Apr 09
In a time of severe economic crisis, the European Union is fortunate to have Sweden taking up the presidential reins this summer, British Ambassador to Sweden Andrew Mitchell tells The Local's James Savage. READ »

Swedish dads could lose out under EU plans

Society: 9 Mar 09
An EU proposal intended to improve rights to maternity leave could lead to Swedish fathers losing out, ministers have said. READ »

Sweden unveils EU presidency logo

Politics: 2 Mar 09
Sweden on Monday released the official logo and website for the government’s upcoming chairmanship of the rotating European Union presidency. READ »

Reinfeldt: multinational approach for eastern Europe aid

Business & Money: 24 Feb 09
Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt on Monday urged the International Monetary Fund to take a leadership role in helping eastern European countries weather the current financial crisis. READ »

Sweden seen as land of bribes in EU sculpture

Society: 16 Jan 09
A controversial art installation in Brussels has made a less-than-subtle jab at Sweden’s alleged involvement in attempts to bribe Czech politicians into approving a massive fighter jet order earlier in the decade. READ »

Bildt: isolation of Gaza 'morally indefensible'

Politics: 8 Jan 09
Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said Thursday that the only way to halt the smuggling of weapons into Gaza is to stop the fighting and end Gaza’s economic isolation. READ »

Swedes stranded in Gaza

Politics: 5 Jan 09
Around twenty Swedes stranded in Gaza have been in contact with the Swedish consulate in Jerusalem to seek help leaving the war-torn area. READ »

Bildt's behaviour has Russians seeing red

Politics: 1 Oct 08
Comments comparing Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler, and a decision to have dinner in Ukraine have put Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt on Russia's black-list. READ »

Reinfeldt's state secretary resigns

Politics: 19 Aug 08
Nicola Clase, one of Prime Minister Reinfeldt's state secretaries, has resigned from her post in order to take up a prestigious position at Harvard University. READ »

Sweden outlines EU presidency priorities

Politics: 28 May 08
Sweden, France, and the Czech Republic, who will fill the EU's rotating presidency from July, unveiled on Tuesday for their shared priorities in piloting the 27-nation bloc. READ »

Reinfeldt offers suppport to Turkish counterpart

Politics: 3 Apr 08
Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt voiced support for Turkey's ruling party, saying a court hearing on whether the party should be banned could slow Turkey's EU bid. READ »

Bildt presents foreign policy in Riksdag

Politics: 13 Feb 08
The Foreign Minister emphasized the importance of the EU and the UN in Swedish foreign policy. READ »

French Prime Minister in Stockholm for talks

Politics: 23 Nov 07
Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt met for talks with his French counterpart ahead of the countries' forthcoming EU presidencies. READ »

Reinfeldt 'will not boycott summit over Mugabe'

National: 31 Oct 07
Sweden is opposed to inviting Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe to an EU-Africa summit in December in Lisbon but will not boycott the meeting if he attends, Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt said on Wednesday. READ »

Reinfeldt 'must boycott Africa summit' over Zimbabwe

National: 13 Oct 07
Pressure is growing on Fredrik Reinfeldt to boycott a meeting between European and African leaders if Robert Mugabe attends. Liberal Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Birgitta Ohlsson has called on Reinfeldt to follow Gordon Brown's lead. READ »

"Persson is lying" - Carl Bildt

Politics: 21 Mar 07
Part two of a documentary on former PM Göran Persson provided further insights into the mind of the man who led Sweden for over ten years. Carl Bildt, Gudrun Schyman and Yasser Arafat all come in for criticism. READ »

Reinfeldt: climate a top priority

National: 7 Nov 06
Tackling climate change is at the top of Sweden's list of priorities, along with jobs, prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has said. He promised that Göran Persson's oil commission will continue its work under his leadership. READ »

Persson: 50-50 chance of EU deal

Politics: 16 Dec 05
The likelihood of a deal on the EU budget is only "50-50" according to Swedish PM Göran Persson. Leaders are meeting in Brussels to debate the deal put forward by Tony Blair. READ »

Persson: "good chance" of EU budget deal

Politics: 8 Dec 05
Swedish Prime Minister Göran Persson says that there is "a good chance" of an EU budget deal next week, after talks in London with British Prime Minister Tony Blair. READ »

Persson and Annan plot to save UN summit

Politics: 2 Sep 05
Kofi Annan comes to Stockholm to discuss how to save the UN summit with Göran Persson. The Swedes are chairing the summit, which threatens to be overshadowed by scandal and infighting. READ »

Persson and Blair in EU budget alliance

Politics: 21 Jun 05
Sweden's prime minister voices strong support for radical changes to the EU budget, at a meeting with Tony Blair in London. Göran Persson said that the European agricultural budget was a relic of the Second World War. READ »

Persson pessimistic over EU funding agreement

Politics: 17 Jun 05
The Swedish prime minister says the current EU funding deadlock is about more than French-British discord and he doesn't expect a deal. "It is better to take a year more and continue to negotiate than to go for one more bad compromise," he said. READ »

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