The Centre Party is a liberal political party in Sweden,founded in 1913.
The secretary of state for education,also referred to as the education secretary,is a secretary of state in the Government of the United Kingdom,responsible for the work of the Department for Education. The incumbent is a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.
The Danish Social Liberal Party is a social-liberal political party in Denmark. The party was founded as a split from the Venstre Reform Party in 1905.
Jyrki Tapani Katainen is a Finnish politician who served as the European Commission's Vice-President for Jobs,Growth,Investment and Competitiveness from 2014 until 2019. Katainen was previously Prime Minister of Finland from 2011 to 2014 and chairman of the National Coalition Party from 2004 to 2014. He was succeeded by Alexander Stubb as chairman of Finland's National Coalition Party. After stepping down as Prime Minister,Katainen was elected as European Commission Vice-President in July 2014.
Lars Erik Ansgar Leijonborg is a Swedish politician,Minister for Higher Education and Research 2006-2009 and Head of the Ministry of Education and Research 2006–2007. During a ten-year period from 1997 to 2007,he served as chairman of the Liberal People's Party.
Anna Cecilia Malmström is a Swedish politician who served as European Commissioner for Trade from 2014 to 2019. She previously served as European Commissioner for Home Affairs from 2010 to 2014 and Minister for European Union Affairs from 2006 to 2010. She was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Sweden from 1999 to 2006.
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.
Wolfgang Gerhardt is a German politician and was the leader of the Free Democratic Party of Germany (FDP) from 1995 until he was succeeded by Guido Westerwelle in 2001.
Rickard Johannes Sandler was a Swedish Social Democratic politician. He served as minister without portfolio in the Swedish government from 10 March 1920 to 30 June 1920,minister for finance from 1 July 1920 to 27 October 1920,minister without portfolio from 13 October 1921 to 19 April 1923,minister of commerce and industry from 14 October 1924 to 24 January 1925,Prime Minister from 24 January 1925 to 7 June 1926,and as minister for foreign affairs from 24 September 1932 to 19 June 1936 and again from 28 September 1936 to 13 December 1939. Sandler is the only social democratic prime minister who did not also hold the post of party chairman. He is also the second-youngest prime minister of Sweden,aged 41 when he took office.
Mailis Reps is an Estonian politician,a member of the Estonian Centre Party. She served as the Minister of Education and Research from 2002 to 2003,2005 to 2007 and 2016 to 2020.
Eva Birgitta Ohlsson Klamberg is a Swedish politician who was Minister for European Union Affairs in the Swedish government from 2010 to 2014. She is a member of the Liberals,formerly the Liberal People's Party. Birgitta Ohlsson serves as the National Democratic Institute’s director of political parties.
General elections were held in Sweden on 19 September 2010 to elect the 349 members of the Riksdag. The main contenders of the election were the governing centre-right coalition the Alliance,consisting of the Moderate Party,the Centre Party,the Liberal People's Party and the Christian Democrats;and the opposition centre-left coalition the Red-Greens,consisting of the Social Democrats,the Left Party and the Green Party.
Jan Arne Björklund is a Swedish Liberal politician. He was member of the Riksdag from 2006 to 2019,representing Stockholm County,and served as leader of the Liberals from 2007 to 2019. Björklund served as Minister for Education from 2007 to 2014,and as Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden from 2010 to 2014.
Tobias Lennart Billström is a Swedish politician of the Moderate Party. He has served as Minister for Foreign Affairs in the cabinet of Ulf Kristersson since 18 October 2022 and has been Member of the Riksdag since the 2002 general election,representing MalmöMunicipality (2002–2022) and Stockholm County.
Sten Sture Tolgfors is a Swedish former politician,public affairs executive and government official who is serving as Governor of Västra Götaland County since 1 September 2022,having been appointed to the position on 9 June 2022.
Per Gustav Edvard Fridolin is a Swedish journalist,author,teacher and former politician who served as Minister for Education from 2014 to 2019 and as one of two spokespersons of the Green Party from 2011 to 2019.
Cecilia Karin Maria Wikström,née Sundström,originally Nodbjörk is a Swedish politician who served as Member of the European Parliament from 2009 until 2019. She is a member of the Liberal Party of Sweden,part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe.
Trine Skei Grande is a Norwegian politician who served as the leader of the Liberal Party of Norway from 2010 to 2020. She also served as Minister of Education from January to March 2020,and as Minister of Culture and Gender Equality from 2018 to 2020. She was also a member of parliament for Oslo from 2001 to 2021.
Andreas Pinkwart is a German politician and academic who served as State Minister for Economic Affairs,Digitization,Innovation and Energy in the governments of Ministers-President Armin Laschet and Hendrik Wüst of North Rhine-Westphalia from 2017 to 2022 and as Deputy Minister-President and State Minister for Innovation,Technology and Research from 2005 to 2010. He previously was the Dean of HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management and holder of the Stiftungsfonds Deutsche Bank Chair of Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship.
The Committee on European Union Affairs is a governmental body in the Swedish Riksdag,where the Riksdag and the Swedish Government consult matters and issues about the European Union (EU). In the EU Committee,Sweden's negotiating position is determined prior to a meeting between the European Council and the Council of the European Union.
