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Riga - Lithuania still has some reservations regarding the launch of a new European Union partnership agreement with Russia ahead of an officials' meeting in Brussels. There are a few buts remaining to be solved, but I hope the new mandate will be a...
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/11888/ Foreign minister Carl Bildt remains convinced that Soviet submarines entered Swedish waters in 1982 despite Monday's revelations that sounds recorded in the Stockholm archipelago may actually have emanated from a Swedish charter boat. Writing in his blog, the...
For the first time Foreign Minister Carl Bildt has commented on the debate on planned cuts in the national defense budget. In an interview with Swedish Radio news Bildt maintained that the open argument between Minister of Defense Sten Tolgfors and the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, Håkan...
Lars Danielsson - the inevitable candidate? Sweden’s center-right coalition government is facing a dilemma as it has only one applicant for the top job of Sweden’s Ambassador to the European Union in Brussels. The applicant is Lars Danielsson, the right hand of former Social Democratic Prime...
Since early May, Georgian officials have turned up to full blast the rhetorical heat of their arguments that the international community should unequivocally condemn recent Russian moves perceived in Tbilisi as tantamount to the creeping annexation of the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South...
Serbia faced an uncertain political future Monday as nationalists and their pro-Western rivals scrambled to forge alliances that would let them take power after bitterly divisive weekend elections. ... At stake was President Boris Tadic's drive to bring the impoverished...
The foreign ministers of Slovenia, Sweden, Poland, and Lithuania have begun a visit to Tbilisi, the second high-profile EU visit to the Georgian capital in less than a week. While Georgia interprets the visits as clear EU backing in its escalating standoff with Russia over the breakaway regions...
Sweden's Foreign Minister Carl Bildt Monday expressed his satisfaction with the results of Serbia's latest elections. Speaking to Swedish Radio, the minister said the pro-European Union (EU) forces have won a clear victory in Serbia ... ... Sweden's Foreign Minister Carl...
Serbia's rival pro-Western and nationalist camps each geared up for talks on forming a new government Monday after parliamentary elections left the Balkan nation sharply divided. ... Serbia's rival pro-Western and nationalist camps each positioned themselves to begin...
Stockholm - Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt Monday lauded the outcome of the parliamentary elections in Serbia that indicated a victory for a coalition of pro-European parties headed by President Boris Tadic. The result of Sunday's polls was muc...
