Hans Göran Persson is a Swedish politician who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1996 to 2006 and leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1996 to 2007.
Gösta Ingvar Carlsson is a Swedish politician who twice served as Prime Minister of Sweden,first from 1986 to 1991 and again from 1994 to 1996. He was leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1986 to 1996. He is best known for leading Sweden into the European Union.
Ylva Anna Maria Lindh was a Swedish Social Democratic politician and lawyer who served as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1998 until her death. She was also a Member of the Riksdag for Södermanland County until her assassination. On 10 September 2003,four days before a referendum on replacing the Swedish krona with the euro as currency,Lindh was stabbed by Mijailo Mijailovićat the NK department store in central Stockholm;she died the next morning at Karolinska University Hospital. Anna Lindh had been seen as a likely candidate to succeed Göran Persson as Social Democratic party leader. Her greatest commitment was to international cooperation and solidarity,as well as to environmental issues. She worked on these issues throughout her career,serving as Environment Minister from 1994 to 1998,and then as Foreign Minister for the last five years of her life.
Jan Olov Karlsson was a Swedish politician;former Minister for Development Cooperation,Migration and Asylum Policy (2002-2003) and acting Minister for Foreign Affairs,following the murder of Anna Lindh. He also served as President of the European Court of Auditors.
Laila Ligita Freivalds is a Swedish Social Democratic politician who served as Minister for Justice from 1988 to 1991 and again from 1994 to 2000,as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2003 to 2006 and as Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden briefly in 2004.
Mona Ingeborg Sahlin is a Swedish politician who was leader of the opposition and leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 2007 to 2011.
Thomas Lennart Bodström is a Swedish former politician of the Swedish Social Democratic Party. He is also a former footballer,and is best remembered for representing Allsvenskan side AIK between 1987 and 1989.
Pär Anders Nuder is a Swedish Social Democratic politician. He was minister for finance from 2004 to 2006,minister for policy co-ordination and state secretary and chief of staff to the prime minister,Göran Persson,1997–2002.
The Swedish Social Democratic Youth League is a branch of the Swedish Social Democratic Party and the Swedish Trade Union Confederation in Sweden. The president has been Lisa Nåbo,since August 2021.
Leif Pagrotsky is a Swedish politician,economist,and diplomat. He served as Minister of Culture from 2004 to 2006 and Minister for Business and Industry from 2002 to 2004 under Prime Minister Göran Persson. After this,he held the position of Consul General of Sweden in New York City from 2016 to 2018.
Jens Olov Heinrich Orback is a Swedish Social Democratic politician. He was Minister for Democracy,Metropolitan Affairs,Integration,and Gender Equality in the Ministry of Justice in the Cabinet of Göran Persson (2004-2006).
Ibrahim Baylan is a Swedish politician who served as Minister for Schools from 2004 to 2006,as Minister for Energy from 2014 to 2019,Minister for Policy Coordination from 2016 to 2019 and as Minister for Business,Industry and Innovation from 2019 to 2021.
Hans Karlsson is a Swedish Social Democratic politician. From 2002 to 2006,he served in the Cabinet of Göran Persson as Minister for Employment in the Ministry of Enterprise,Energy and Communications of the Swedish government. His responsibilities included health and work injury insurance and sick pay.
Gamla Enskede is a district of Enskede-Årsta-Vantör borough,South Stockholm,Sweden. In addition to housing areas,the district includes the Skogskyrkogården woodland cemetery and the smaller Sandsborgskyrkogården cemetery.
Göran Persson served as Prime Minister of Sweden between 22 March 1996 and 6 October 2006. Persson took over after Ingvar Carlsson,who retired as party leader and Prime Minister. Following the 2006 general election,he and the Persson Cabinet lost power to a centre-right coalition government.
After a period of rapid growth and unprecedented economic prosperity during the late 1980s,by 1990 the Swedish economy overheated,and after a controversial bill freezing salaries and banning strikes failed in the Riksdag,the social democratic government led by Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson resigned in February 1990. At this time the respected Finance Minister Kjell-Olof Feldt left the government in protest over what he saw as irresponsible economic policies. Carlsson soon formed a new government,but by the time of the general election in September 1991 the economy was in free fall,and with rapidly rising unemployment,the social democrats received the smallest share of votes in sixty years (37.7%),resulting in the loss of office to the opposition,a centre-right coalition led by Carl Bildt.
Lars Mikael Damberg is a Swedish politician of the Social Democratic Party. He served as Minister for Finance from 2021 to 2022. He previously served as Minister for Enterprise from October 2014 to January 2019 and as minister for home affairs from January 2019 to November 2021.
Events from the year 2001 in Sweden
Budgetpromenaden,or the budget walk,is a traditional biannual procession when the Swedish finance minister walk with a copy of the budget bill from the Ministry of Finance to the Riksdag,a distance of 400 metres (440 yd).
