Ylva Anna Maria Lindh,was a Swedish lawyer and Social Democratic politician who was a Member of the Riksdag for Södermanland County until her assassination during her third term in office. Four days before a referendum on replacing the Swedish krona with the euro as currency,Lindh was stabbed by Mijailo Mijailovićon September 10,2003 at 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.
John Fredrik Reinfeldt is a Swedish economist,lecturer,and former politician who was Prime Minister of Sweden from 2006 to 2014,and chairman of the liberal conservative Moderate Party from 2003 to 2015. He was the last rotating President of the European Council in 2009.
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.
Carin Jämtin is a Swedish civil servant and former politician who has been serving as the Director General of the Swedish International Development Agency since 2017. She served as party secretary of the Social Democrats from March 2011 until her resignation in August 2016 and previously served as Minister for International Development Cooperation in the Swedish Government between 2003 and 2006. She was a Member of the Riksdag from 2014 to 2017,representing Stockholm Municipality.
Jan Kenneth Eliasson is a Swedish diplomat who was Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations from July 2012 to December 2016. A member of the Swedish Social Democratic Party,Eliasson served as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 24 April to 6 October 2006. Eliasson was appointed as Governing Board Chair of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute in April 2017 and assumed his role as of 1 June 2017.
Anders Per-Arne Björck is a Swedish politician who was Minister for Defence from 1991 to 1994 and Governor of Uppsala County from 2003 to 2009.
Jan Olof Scherman is a Swedish journalist and previously CEO for the Sweden-based TV company TV4 AB. He is active in political debate and was a major critic of the Göran Persson cabinet. He is also second cousin of the recording artist Cat Stevens.
Erik Åsbrink is a Swedish politician and former minister in two Social Democratic governments led by Ingvar Carlsson and Göran Persson. Later Åsbrink took part in shaping the informal guidelines called the 'business code of ethics'. Since July 2011 Åsbrink has been an international advisor to Goldman Sachs. In this position Åsbrink gives the bank strategic consultancy on growth opportunities in Sweden and the Nordic countries.
Tobias Lennart Billström is a Swedish Moderate Party politician who has served as Leader of the Moderate Party in the Riksdag since October 2017. He has been a Member of the Riksdag for the MalmöMunicipality since September 2002. He previously served as First Deputy Speaker of the Riksdag from 2014 to 2017,Minister for Migration and Asylum Policy from 2006 to 2014 and Minister for Employment from July 2010 to October 2010.
Håkan Juholt is a Swedish politician who was Leader of the Social Democrats from 2011 to 2012. He was member of the Swedish parliament from 1994 to 2016,representing Kalmar län. Juholt served as Sweden's Ambassador to the Republic of Iceland from September 2017 to August 2020,and has served as Ambassador to the Republic of South Africa since September 2020.
The Almedalen Week is an annual event taking place in week 26 in and around Almedalen,a park in the city of Visby on the Swedish island Gotland.
The Lars Vilks Muhammad drawings controversy began in July 2007 with a series of drawings by Swedish artist Lars Vilks that depicted the Islamic prophet Muhammad as a roundabout dog. Several art galleries in Sweden declined to show the drawings,citing security concerns and fear of violence. The controversy gained international attention after the Örebro-based regional newspaper Nerikes Allehanda published one of the drawings on 18 August as part of an editorial on self-censorship and freedom of religion.
Lars Mikael Damberg is a Swedish politician of the Social Democratic Party. He has served as Minister for Finance since November 2021. He previously served as Minister for Enterprise from October 2014 to January 2019 and as Minister of the Interior from January 2019 to November 2021.
The Malexander murders were the murders of two police officers,Robert Karlström and Olle Borén,at Malexander,Sweden on 28 May 1999. The murders were committed after a bank robbery in Kisa earlier that day. Three men were convicted of the crimes,Tony Olsson,Andreas Axelsson and former mercenary Jackie Arklöv. The murders in Malexander were among the most high-profile cases in Sweden. The three perpetrators were active neo-Nazis and the robbery spree before the murders was committed as part of their plan to collect money to fund and create a "revolutionary" Nazi organization.
Eva Magdalena Andersson is a Swedish politician and economist serving as leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party and Prime Minister of Sweden since 2021.
Events from the year 2002 in Sweden
Events from the year 1999 in Sweden
Jasenko Selimović is a Bosnian-born Swedish director,artistic director,writer and politician representing the Liberal People's Party. He was a Member of the European Parliament from 2015 until 2019.
Alternative for Sweden is a far-right political party in Sweden. It was founded in March 2018. The party was founded by Gustav Kasselstrand and William Hahne.
