Enn Kokk (19 June 1937 – 19 August 2019) was a Swedish

Social Democrat Social democracy is a Social philosophy, social, Economic ideology, economic, and political philosophy within socialism that supports Democracy, political and economic democracy and a gradualist, reformist, and democratic approach toward achi ...

ic politician, journalist and writer. Kokk was born in

Juminda Juminda is a village in Kuusalu Parish, Harju County in northern Estonia. (retrieved 27 July 2021) It is located on the coast of the Gulf of Finland, on top of the Juminda Peninsula, on the territory of Lahemaa National Park. Juminda has a popu ...

Estonia Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Ru ...

and his family fled to Sweden in 1944. For many decades, Kokk was active within the leadership of the

Social Democratic Party The name Social Democratic Party or Social Democrats has been used by many political parties in various countries around the world. Such parties are most commonly aligned to social democracy as their political ideology. Active parties Form ...

as an official, starting 1968. He was, amongst other things, chief editor for the party's magazine ''

Aktuellt i Politiken ''Aktuellt i Politiken'' (Swedish language, Swedish: ''Current Issues in Politics''; abbreviated as ''AiP'') is a Swedish language political and news publication which is one of the media outlets of the Social Democratic Party (Sweden), Social De ...

'' for a few years. In 2000, he left the work in the program commission of the party due to his disagreement with the party's decision to support a Swedish membership in the

Eurozone The euro area, commonly called the eurozone (EZ), is a Monetary union, currency union of 20 Member state of the European Union, member states of the European Union (EU) that have adopted the euro (Euro sign, €) as their primary currency ...

. During the referendum campaign on the issue in 2003, Kokk was a board member in the organisation ''Social Democrats Against the

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''. He married Birgitta Dahl in 1986. He died on 19 August 2019 at the age of 82.S-veteranen Enn Kokk är död

External links

Official blog

References

1937 births 2019 deaths People from Kuusalu Parish Swedish Social Democratic Party politicians Estonian emigrants to Sweden Estonian World War II refugees Swedish male bloggers Swedish magazine editors {{Estonia-writer-stub