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Bildt Cabinet
The cabinet of Carl Bildt () was the Cabinet (government), cabinet of Sweden from 4 October 1991 to 7 October 1994 with Carl Bildt as the Prime Minister of Sweden, prime minister. It was a coalition government between the Moderate Party, the Centre Party (Sweden), Centre Party, the Liberal People's Party (Sweden), Liberal People's Party and the Christian Democrats (Sweden), Christian Democrats. Ministers External linksThe Government and the Government Offices of Sweden {{Cabinets of Sweden 1991 establishments in Sweden Cabinets of Sweden, Bildt, Carl Politics of Sweden 1994 disestablishments in Sweden Cabinets established in 1991 Cabinets disestablished in 1994 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic country by both area and population, and is the List of European countries by area, fifth-largest country in Europe. Its capital and largest city is Stockholm. Sweden has a population of 10.6 million, and a low population density of ; 88% of Swedes reside in urban areas. They are mostly in the central and southern half of the country. Sweden's urban areas together cover 1.5% of its land area. Sweden has a diverse Climate of Sweden, climate owing to the length of the country, which ranges from 55th parallel north, 55°N to 69th parallel north, 69°N. Sweden has been inhabited since Prehistoric Sweden, prehistoric times around 12,000 BC. The inhabitants emerged as the Geats () and Swedes (tribe), Swedes (), who formed part of the sea-faring peopl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cabinet (government)
A cabinet in governing is a group of people with the constitutional or legal task to rule a country or state, or advise a head of state, usually from the executive branch. Their members are known as ministers and secretaries and they are often appointed by either heads of state or government. Cabinets are typically the body responsible for the day-to-day management of the government and response to sudden events, whereas the legislative and judicial branches work in a measured pace, in sessions according to lengthy procedures. The function of a cabinet varies: in some countries, it is a collegiate decision-making body with collective responsibility, while in others it may function either as a purely advisory body or an assisting institution to a decision-making head of state or head of government. In some countries, particularly those that use a parliamentary system (e.g., the United Kingdom), the cabinet collectively decides the government's direction, especially in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minister For Defence (Sweden)
The Minister for Defence of Sweden (; formal title: ) is a member of the Government of Sweden (). The Minister heads the Ministry for Defence and is appointed and dismissed at the sole discretion of the prime minister of Sweden. Although the Minister for Defence heads the Ministry of Defence, the Minister cannot as a general rule issue directives in his/her own right to the Supreme Commander or any other agency director-general in the defence portfolio due to the Swedish prohibition on ministerial rule, unless such authority is provided for in specific statutory provisions. Between 1840 and 1920, what corresponds to the Ministry for Defence today, was divided in two separate ministries with their own minister: one for Army affairs, the Ministry of Land Defence, and one for Naval affairs, the Ministry for Naval Affairs. The current Minister for Defence is Pål Jonson, who was appointed on 18 October 2022. List of Swedish Ministers for Defence Ministers for War (1840-1920) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Defence (Sweden)
The Ministry of Defence () is a Ministry (government department), ministry in the Government of Sweden responsible for policies related to Defense (military), national defence and civil defence. The ministry is currently headed by the Minister for Defence, Pål Jonson of the Moderate Party. History The ministry was established on 1 July 1920 when the Ministry of Land Defence and the Ministry for Naval Affairs (Sweden), Ministry for Naval Affairs was merged into one ministry. It's located at Jakobsgatan, Jakobsgatan 9 at Gustav Adolfs torg, Stockholm, Gustaf Adolfs torg in Stockholm, where it has been located since 1966. Government agencies The Ministry of Defence is principal for 12 government agencies, one partly state-owned company (SOS Alarm) and one fund. Government funds * Gällöfsta Education Fund () State-owned companies * SOS Alarm, SOS Alarm AB, partly owned by the state (50%) with the other half being owned by the :sv:Sveriges Kommuner och Regioner, Swedish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulf Dinkelspiel
Ulf Adolf Roger Dinkelspiel (4 July 1939 – 9 January 2017) was a Swedish Moderate Party politician and financier. Early life Dinkelspiel was born on 4 July 1939 in Stockholm in 1939, the son of Max Dinkelspiel and his wife Brita (née Björnstjerna). He attended the University of Arkansas in the United States from 1956 to 1957 and graduated from the Stockholm School of Economics in 1960. Dinkelspiel became a reserve officer in 1961. Career Dinkelspiel worked at Bankirfirman E. Öhman J:or. AB from 1957 to 1959 and from 1961 to 1962. He was an employee at Stockholms Enskilda Bank in 1960 and became an attaché at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1962. Dinkelspiel served at the Swedish Embassy in Tokyo from 1963 to 1965, at the OECD delegation in Paris from 1965 to 1967 and at the Foreign Ministry in Stockholm from 1967 to 1975. Dinkelspiel served at the Swedish Embassy in Washington, D.C. from 1975 to 1979 and was state secretary at the Ministry of Commerce and Industry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alf Svensson (politician)
Alf Robert Olof Svensson (born 1 October 1938) is a Swedish politician and author. He was a Member of the European Parliament from 2009 to 2014. Svensson was the leader of the Christian Democrats in Sweden between 1973 and 3 April 2004. He was a Member of Parliament from 1985 to 1988, and again from 1991 until his election to the European Parliament in 2009. Between 1991 and 1994 he was Minister for Development Cooperation in the liberal-conservative Cabinet led by Prime Minister Carl Bildt. Biography Svensson was trained as a teacher, and taught Swedish and history at a high school in Huskvarna from 1963 until 1973.Alf Svensson: Om Alf , accessed 2011-08-14 He was a member of the Christian Democrats from the party's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaretha Af Ugglas
Märta Margaretha af Ugglas (; born 5 January 1939) is a Swedish former Moderate Party politician. She was minister for foreign affairs between 1991 and 1994. Early life She is the daughter of Hugo Stenbeck, a lawyer and the founder of Investment AB Kinnevik, and his wife Märta (née Odelfeldt). She was the sister of Hugo Jr (1933–1976), Elisabeth Silfverstolpe (1935–1985) and Jan Stenbeck (1942–2002). af Ugglas fought a bitter feud with her brother Jan over the family fortune, and subsequently withdrew from her brother and Kinnevik. Career af Ugglas attended the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration from 1960 to 1971 and graduated from the Stockholm School of Economics in 1964 with a degree in business administration and economics ('' Civilekonom''). She then worked for ''Veckans Affärer'' from 1967 to 1968 and ''Svenska Dagbladet'' from 1968 to 1973 as an editorial writer. She was a member of the Stockholm County Council from 1971 to 1973, was publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minister For Foreign Affairs (Sweden)
The Minister for Foreign Affairs () is the foreign minister of Sweden and the head of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs (Sweden), Ministry for Foreign Affairs. The current Minister for Foreign Affairs is Maria Malmer Stenergard of the Moderate Party. History The office was instituted in 1809 as a result of the constitutional Instrument of Government (1809), Instrument of Government promulgated in the same year. Until 1876 the office was called Prime Minister for Foreign Affairs (, commonly known as ''utrikesstatsminister''), similar to the office of Minister for Justice (Sweden), Prime Minister for Justice (). The Prime Minister for Foreign Affairs initially served as head of the Cabinet of Foreign Mail Exchange at the Royal Office. Following the ministry reform in 1840, the Prime Minister for Foreign Affairs became head of the newly instituted Ministry for Foreign Affairs (Sweden), Ministry for Foreign Affairs. In 1876 the office proper of Prime Minister of Sweden was created an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry For Foreign Affairs (Sweden)
The Ministry for Foreign Affairs (, UD) is a ministry in the Government of Sweden responsible for policies related to foreign policy, democracy, human rights, international development cooperation and foreign trade. The ministry is currently headed by the minister for foreign affairs, Maria Malmer Stenergard of the Moderate Party. History The Ministry of Foreign Affairs was added in 1791, when Gustav III established the King's Cabinet for Foreign Correspondence. The organization that was formally named the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1840 was then created in practice. It is possible to speak of a foreign administration to the function as soon as we can discern a Swedish central state administration, and from the end of the 13th century. Under Gustav Vasa, the chancellery developed into the body that handled and expedited government matters. With Gustav II Adolf's reforms in the 1620s, a specialization was carried out within the chancellery so that foreign affairs were d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gun Hellsvik
Gun Birgitta Hellsvik (née Blomgren; 27 September 1942 – 14 November 2016) was a Swedish politician for the Moderate Party, who served as Minister for Justice from 1991-1994. A lawyer by training, she worked as a civil law lecturer at Lund University before becoming a full-time politician. She served as Municipal commissioner of Lund 1983-1991, Minister for Justice 1991-1994, member of the Riksdag, chairman of the Riksdag Committee on Justice 1994-2001, President of the Nordic Council 1999, Director General of the Swedish Patent and Registration Office 2001-2007, and chairman of the board of the University of Borås 2004-2007. Social Democrat Laila Freivalds was both her predecessor and successor to the office of Minister for Justice. Hellsvik was known for her tough stance on drugs. She opposed dispensing clean needles to drug addicts, arguing that it would undermine people's confidence in the legal system. As Minister of Justice, she oversaw a legal change that mad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minister For Justice (Sweden)
The Minister for Justice, (), formally cabinet minister and head of the Ministry of Justice, is a member and minister of the Government of Sweden and is appointed by the Prime Minister. The minister is responsible for policies related to combating terrorism, democracy and human rights, family law, the judicial system and the Constitution of Sweden. The current Minister for Justice is Gunnar Strömmer of the Moderate Party. History The office was instituted in 1809 as a result of the constitutional Instrument of Government promulgated in the same year. Until 1876 the office was called Prime Minister for Justice (), similar to the office of Prime Minister for Foreign Affairs (). Until 1840, the Prime Minister for Justice also served as a member of the Supreme Court. Following the ministry reform in 1840, the Prime Minister for Justice became head of the newly instituted Ministry of Justice. In 1876 the office proper of Prime Minister of Sweden was created and at the same time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
