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Our country is considered to be a non-corrupt, well-working society characterized by equality, democracy and a caring nature. But at the same time Sweden scores below average in the culture dimension, especially �cultural heritage.� Well, we have no Thebe,...
Tags: Sweden, European Central Bank, Swedish EU, cultural heritage, Stockholm, Gothenburg, Metropolitan Gothenburg, Volvo, Hisingen, Northern Europe, Scandinavia, Geats
The European Union has spent eight years trying to modernize its rules and become a bigger global player. But now, facing a vote Thursday to finally pick a slate of new and more powerful leaders, it is falling back on old-fashioned backroom deal-making...
Tags: European Union, European Council, European Parliament, Swedish EU, Lisbon Treaty, Turkey, Brussels, eu presidency, eu leaders, prime minister, Belgium, Economy of the European Union, Federalism, Herman Van Rompuy, President of the European Council, Paavo Lipponen, Jean-Claude Juncker, Treaty of Lisbon, Vaira Vᅣᆱᅣᄋe-Freiberga, Politics, Tony Blair, Nicolas Sarkozy, Angela Merkel, European Commission, Carl Bildt, Ed Miliband, Miliband, Jewish atheists, David Miliband, Common Foreign and Security Policy, United Nations, Future enlargement of the European Union, International recognition of Kosovo, Political systems
Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has a week of tightrope diplomacy ahead of him as he tries to pin down some names for top EU posts without actually revealing to a potentially unforgiving electorate in any of the 27 member states that their top...
Tags: Swedish EU, First EU, Fredrik Reinfeldt, European Union Struggles, eu presidency, prime minist, Brussels, minist fredrik, foreign minist, policy chief
The Lhasa violence involving beating, smashing, looting and burning in 2008 was a sabotage activity "premeditated, organized and masterminded" by the Dalai Lama group, who instigated Tibetan separatists in and out of China to fuel up the incident, Ma...
Tags: China, Swedish EU
The European Parliament is later this morning set to call for the establishment of a European diplomatic college as the EU looks to firm up its presence on the international stage with a coherent foreign policy. The proposal, contained in a parliament...
Tags: EU Presidency, lisbon treaty, Swedish EU, Czechoslovakia, Lisbon, European Union, European Parliament, European Commission
Countries such as China and India must turn public pronouncements on limiting greenhouse gases into "concrete actions," the Swedish EU presidency stated on Friday. "Recent encouraging public statements from the big emerging economies about limiting their...
Tags: Swedish EU, eu presidency, Belgium, Brussels
Liberal Democrat Party head Vlad Filat was approved as the prime minister of Moldova by the Parliament Friday, the U.S...State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said in a release the United States congratulates Filat's election as prime minister and welcomed...
Tags: Moldovan, prime minister, Swedish EU, Moldova, Chişinău
Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremi� and his Israeli counterpart Avigdor Lieberman have signed an agreement to abolish visas between the two countries. The two ministers welcomed the signing, stating that it was an important step in the development of...
Tags: Israeli, Serbian, Jeremic, Kosovo, signing visa, Swedish EU, Vuk Jeremi, Priština
Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić is today in Sweden, the country that currently holds the rotating EU presidency. Jeremić met with his Swedish counterpart Carl Bildt this morning, and will later hold talks with Minister for EU Affairs Cecilia Malstrom and...
Tags: Swedish EU, Mr Jeremic, EU Affairs Cecilia Malstrom, Serbia, Vuk Jeremi, eu presidency
12 CET Greenhouse gases in the European Union have fallen again for the fourth year in a row...As parties to the protocol, the EU-15 are committed to reducing emissions by eight percent on the baseline level by 2012. For the whole of the EU, emissions...
Tags: Swedish EU, emissions trading