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May 28, 2012
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Maud to advise Hillary on women's business
Politics: 21 Aug 11
Sweden’s Centre Party leader, Maud Olofsson, due to retire from her post later this year, has been asked to sit on newly-formed International Council on Women’s Business Leadership, for U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton.
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'Wild card' Juholt faces challenge of mending a party in crisis
Analysis & Opinion: 10 Mar 11
The choice of Håkan Julholt as candidate to take over as leader of the Social Democrats, while answering one question, leaves much about the party's future unresolved, The Local's David Landes discovers.
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Sweden wakes up to a new reality
Analysis & Opinion: 23 Sep 10
The 2010 Swedish general election has left Swedes facing a radically changed political landscape, writes The Local's James Savage.
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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.
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Reinfeldt pushes for consensus on EU leader
Politics: 19 Nov 09
Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt made a last ditch effort on Wednesday night to get EU leaders to agree on a candidate to become the European Union’s first president.
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Swedes cast about for EU job candidates
Politics: 16 Nov 09
Sweden, the current head of the EU's rotating presidency, is ratcheting up its hunt for consensus candidates for two new EU top jobs. Stockholm intends to have the positions filled at a summit later this week.
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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.
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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.
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Reinfeldt a 'dark horse' for EU president job
Politics: 31 Oct 09
With reports emerging over the frontrunners for the permanent position of EU president, a new contender has emerged in the international media in the shape of Sweden's Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt.
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Wallström: EU president 'should be a woman'
Politics: 27 Oct 09
Amid discussions by EU foreign ministers about the need for strong leadership, Swedish EU commissioner Margot Wallström has called for the appointment of a woman to serve as EU president.
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Reinfeldt steps up pressure to ensure Lisbon treaty adoption
Politics: 5 Oct 09
Sweden's Fredrik Reinfeldt on Monday pushed the Czech Republic and Britain not to further delay approval of the European Union's Lisbon reform treaty.
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Clinton and Blair in Stockholm climate conference
Science & Technology: 2 Apr 09
Tony Blair, Bill Clinton and Nobel prize-winner Wangari Maathai, met Swedish prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt in Stockholm on Wednesday to discuss the impact of the financial crisis on work to arrest climate change.
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Wallström laments lack of women named for top EU jobs
Politics: 7 Mar 08
Only men's names have been put forward for top positions being created in the European Union, Commission Vice President Margot Wallström lamented on Friday.
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Wallström blasts EU as "boys' club"
Politics: 8 Feb 08
European Commission Vice President Margot Wallström says she is tired of male politicians bargaining over top EU jobs in secret back-room discussions.
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Mugabe in attack on Sweden
Politics: 9 Dec 07
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has added Sweden to his list of hate objects. PM Fredrik Reinfeldt says he is honoured.
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Reinfeldt and Blair 'agree' on climate change
Politics: 6 Mar 07
Swedish prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt and his British counterpart Tony Blair have said the EU needs to be more ambitious in its plans to tackle climate change.
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Reinfeldt to meet Tony Blair
Politics: 27 Feb 07
Sweden's prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt is to travel to London for talks with Tony Blair, it has been announced. The environment is expected to be a key topic of conversation.
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British Tories hope to learn from Reinfeldt
Politics: 13 Feb 07
British Conservative leader David Cameron has been in Stockholm to learn from Fredrik Reinfeldt how to eject a left-wing government after more than a decade in opposition.
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Swedish teacher at Holocaust denial conference
Society: 14 Dec 06
A teacher at an adult education college in Stockholm has been suspended for participating in a Holocaust denial conference in Iran. Jan Bernhoff claims that only 300,000 Jews died in Hitler's extermination campaign.
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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.
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International reaction: Persson's lesson for Britain
Analysis & Opinion: 19 Sep 06
Sweden's election has reverberated well beyond the country's borders. In Britain, politicians on both sides on the political divide think they have lessons to learn in Stockholm.
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Reinfeldt: Sweden's cool-headed winner
Politics: 18 Sep 06
He's hauled his party from the unelectable Right of Swedish politics to the centre ground. A good listener, he has persuaded Swedish voters that their cherished welfare state is safe in his hands.
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Alliance wins - Persson concedes
Politics: 17 Sep 06
Fredrik Reinfeldt is to be Sweden's new prime minister. He has declared victory, Göran Persson has said he will resign as prime minister and as leader of the Social Democrats. "We have won as the new Moderates," Reinfeldt said, paraphrasing Tony Blair.
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Profile: Fredrik Reinfeldt, the Alliance's clean-up man
Politics: 13 Sep 06
Swedish opposition leader Fredrik Reinfeldt enjoys washing up in the kitchen - "I like when things are clean" - yet the cool-headed 41-year-old's biggest clean-up job is the one he has carried out within his conservative Moderate Party.
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Blair to back Persson in election
Politics: 15 Mar 06
Speaking after a meeting in London, British prime minister Tony Blair has thrown his weight behind Göran Persson and the Social Democrats in the run up to the Swedish election in September.
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Persson: Attitudes to Jews 'shameful'
Smörgåsbord: 14 Mar 06
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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.
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Persson opens UN summit
Smörgåsbord: 14 Sep 05
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"EU lacks leadership" say delegates at Swedish global forum
Smörgåsbord: 2 Aug 05
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Persson sets out his objections to the EU budget
Politics: 3 Jul 05
Sweden was one of the countries which rejected the EU budget at the dramatic summit in Brussels two weeks ago, plunging the organisation into crisis. In DN today, prime minister Göran Persson explains why.
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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.
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Swedish party leaders congratulate Blair
Politics: 6 May 05
Prime minister Göran Persson and opposition leader Fredrik Reinfeldt sing the praises of Britain's Tony Blair, following his party's "historic" third election victory. But Sweden's party-pooping papers are more interested in when Blair will resign.
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L?emploi en Suède
Smörgåsbord: 5 May 05
Qu’il s’agisse des discours du premier mai, des propositions des syndicats pour réagir face au chômage, ou encore d’un nouveau site internet d’offres d’emplois aux méthodes très controversées, les problèmes lies à l’emploi sont au cœur de l’actualité de la semaine.
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Blair and Schröder "snub Persson"
Politics: 24 Feb 05
Swedish prime minister Göran Persson hosts a summit in Stockholm for Europe's labour party leaders - except that two biggest hitters, Tony Blair and Gerhard Schröder, couldn't make it.
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Spain criticises Persson decision
Politics: 2 Apr 04
Spain's foreign minister joins the quarrel over Göran Persson's decision to stay away from the Madrid memorial.
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Meet Sanna, 9 years old
Sanna is one of 2 million people in Sweden under the age of 18. Sweden is seen as a good place to grow up. The law makes sure children are well-protected and defends their rights and any organizations work with children's well-being. Read more »
Strindberg, king of drama
August Strindberg's plays shocked society, dazzled audiences and revolutionized drama. A century after his death, Strindberg, with his powerful, timeless themes, is celebrated around the world. Read more »
Prime Minister Reinfeldt chats with The Local »
"If you missed it yesterday, here’s The Local’s editor David Landes snagging Prime Minister Reinfeldt for a chat before Princess Estelle’s baptism. Always nice to know the PM has time for TL!" READ »
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