New website for Sino-Swedish environmental technology collaboration
A brand new website for exchange between Chinese and Swedish government representatives, organisations and companies has just been launched. Relations and trade between China and Sweden within sustainable development is gaining in importance. Sweden, as a world leader in environmental planning, design and technology has a lot to offer to the fast developing China. China, in turn, with its rapid urbanisation, its increasingly excelling innovation culture and great interest for exchange with the world places great interest in cooperation with Sweden.
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The ministers interviewed: Ewa Björling
10 November 2010 -
Raoul Wallenberg Year 2012 inaugurated
Carl Bildt, Minister for Foreign Affairs
20 December 2011 -
Camilla Wagner on women's leadership
Camilla Wagner
15 December 2011 -
Journalist Barbro Hedvall on starting a new phase in life
16 December 2011
The ministers interviewed: Ewa Björling
Minister for Trade Ewa Björling speaks about a range of tools she wants to use and develop in order to double Sweden's exports over the next five years. She also discusses how her new responsibility for Nordic cooperation will affect her work.
Minister for Trade Ewa Björling involved in intensified negotiations over EU patent
Dr Ewa Björling will be representing Sweden at the European Competitiveness Council in Brussels on 10 November. The meeting will focus entirely on the intensified negotiations over an EU patent and the long-outstanding issue of translation arrangements.
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The ministers interviewed: Gunilla Carlsson
9 November 2010 -
Raoul Wallenberg Year 2012 inaugurated
Carl Bildt, Minister for Foreign Affairs
20 December 2011 -
Camilla Wagner on women's leadership
Camilla Wagner
15 December 2011 -
Journalist Barbro Hedvall on starting a new phase in life
16 December 2011
The ministers interviewed: Gunilla Carlsson
Minister for International Development Cooperation Gunilla Carlsson is interviewed about how she wants to see development assistance advance over the next four years. She talks about strengthening the role of women in society and how this helps in reaching children and young people as well. She also explains the importance of a transparency guarantee for development assistance. Ms Carlsson also reveals what led her to become involved in politics.
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Watch Minister for Integration Erik Ullenhag talk about two cornerstones of integration policy. He also discusses the role of openness in building Sweden and how integration will help make Sweden a winner in the future as well. Mr Ullenhag also describes the issues that led him to become involved in politics.
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The ministers interviewed: Ulf Kristersson
3 November 2010 -
Joanna Shields, Managing Director of Facebook
9 February 2012
The ministers interviewed: Ulf Kristersson
Minister for Social Security Ulf Kristersson talk about the Government's reform efforts in the area of social insurance. Mr Kristersson also talks about what he views as the most difficult and important issue as Minister for Social Security: how do we prevent children growing up in benefit-dependent households from inheriting their parents' exclusion? He also describes how former Moderate Party leader Gösta Bohman was, and remains, his role model as a politician.
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The ministers interviewed: Stefan Attefall
3 November 2010 -
Joanna Shields, Managing Director of Facebook
9 February 2012
The ministers interviewed: Stefan Attefall
Minister for Public Administration and Housing Stefan Attefall gives his view of what he considers the most important housing policy issue at the moment: how can Sweden lay the foundations for permanently high levels of housing production? He also talks about the fact that, in his ministerial role, he holds two important tools to promote integration. Mr Attefall also outlines how he became involved in politics at the beginning of the 1970s.
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The ministers interviewed: Maria Larsson
3 November 2010 -
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9 February 2012
The ministers interviewed: Maria Larsson
Minister for Children and the Elderly Maria Larsson talks about priority issues and what she wants to achieve during the electoral period in terms of policy for children and the elderly. As the minister responsible for issues concerning disabilities, she also outlines how she wants to increase accessibility and participation in society for disabled people. Ms Larsson also describes how childcare and interpreting services in her home municipality first encouraged her to become politically active.
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Minister for Defence Sten Tolgfors explains how the historic changes to the Swedish Armed Forces approved last year will be implemented during this electoral period. He describes how the Armed Forces will achieve higher quality and greater accessibility in the immediate term. He also talks about the challenge of recruiting 16 000 young people to the Armed Forces over the next few years. Mr Tolgfors outlines how his work for the Red Cross led to his involvement in politics.
Nordic Council Session in Reykjavik
The Nordic Council Session 2010 will take place in the Icelandic capital Reykjavik from Tuesday 2 November to Thursday 4 November. The Session will begin on Tuesday afternoon with a summit attended by all the Nordic Prime Ministers. The theme of this year's summit is 'Green growth - the way out of the crisis'. Those attending alongside Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt include Minister for Foreign Affairs Carl Bildt, Minister for Trade Ewa Björling and Minister for the Environment Andreas Carlgren.
