https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Sweden in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Jan Eliasson has begun work as Sweden's new Foreign Minister. Eliasson, 65, was appointed on March 27th as Ministry of Foreign Affairs head by Swedish Prime Minister Göran Persson following the resignation of former Swedish Foreign Minister Laila Freivalds. https://www.thelocal.se/20060425/3648-2 Tue, 25 Apr 2006 20:30:00 +0200 3648-2 Sweden's prime minister and former foreign minister are suing low cost airline Ryanair for 75,000 kronor each, reported Swedish Radio Sörmland. https://www.thelocal.se/20060406/3491-2 Thu, 06 Apr 2006 13:24:00 +0200 3491-2 Hans Dahlgren, cabinet secretary at Sweden’s foreign ministry, has resigned along with his boss, foreign minister Laila Frevialds. https://www.thelocal.se/20060321/3337-2 Tue, 21 Mar 2006 15:01:00 +0100 3337-2 Foreign Minister Laila Freivalds has resigned following months of criticism that built to a crescendo in recent days. https://www.thelocal.se/20060321/3330-2 Tue, 21 Mar 2006 09:47:00 +0100 3330-2 Foreign Minister Laila Freivalds should resign for misleading journalists, say opposition parties. They say she did misled the public over how much she knew about her department's contact with an internet hosting company that closed a website belonging to the Sweden Democrats (Sverigedemokraterna). https://www.thelocal.se/20060320/3323-2 Mon, 20 Mar 2006 10:35:00 +0100 3323-2 Sweden's Foreign Minister Laila Freivalds appeared before the parliamentary constitution committee's inquiry into the Swedish government's response to the tsunami disaster on Thursday morning. https://www.thelocal.se/20060216/3066-2 Thu, 16 Feb 2006 10:59:00 +0100 3066-2 Göran Persson has said that it was "inappropriate" for a senior official at Sweden's foreign ministry, Stefan Amér, to act to close the website of the far-right Sweden Democrats, which had published cartoons of the prophet Muhammad. https://www.thelocal.se/20060215/3062-2 Wed, 15 Feb 2006 15:44:00 +0100 3062-2 The Swedish government warned on Thursday that the radical Islamist movement Hamas, which is to form the next Palestinian government, would have to change its ways to win cooperation from the European Union. https://www.thelocal.se/20060126/2940-2 Thu, 26 Jan 2006 17:27:00 +0100 2940-2 The travel industry was let off the hook too easily by the Catastrophe Commission for the failures in its handling of the tsunami disaster, Laila Freivalds has said. https://www.thelocal.se/20051209/2652-2 Fri, 09 Dec 2005 12:21:00 +0100 2652-2 Sweden's opposition parties have agreed to hold fire on a vote of no confidence against Prime Minister Göran Persson until the completion of a Constitutional Committee inquiry in the spring. https://www.thelocal.se/20051206/2634-2 Tue, 06 Dec 2005 23:35:00 +0100 2634-2 The majority of Swedes believe that Foreign Minister Laila Freivalds should be fired. https://www.thelocal.se/20051203/2618-2 Sat, 03 Dec 2005 12:56:00 +0100 2618-2 Göran Persson has been held personally responsible by an official inquiry for the failures in the Swedish government’s reaction to last year’s South Asian tsunami disaster, in which over 500 Swedes died. https://www.thelocal.se/20051201/2604-2 Thu, 01 Dec 2005 11:49:00 +0100 2604-2 Foreign minister Laila Freivalds has dismissed claims that CIA planes could have landed at Swedish airports. https://www.thelocal.se/20051118/2520-2 Fri, 18 Nov 2005 14:35:00 +0100 2520-2