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On this page you will find articles and statements by members of the Swedish government or members of the Embassy.

Mar 26 2009
"Economic migration: brain drain or brain gain?"
Minister for Migration and Asylum Policy, Tobias Billström's speech at European Business Summit in Brussels
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Mar 19 2009
Swedish Testimony on Banking Crisis
The Director General of the Swedish national Debt Office, Mr. Bo Lundgren, testified before the U.S. Congressional Oversight Panel on Thursday, March 19th, during a public hearing on government responses to major banking crises of the 20th century.
In the 1990's, Director General Lundgren was the minister responsible for financial and fiscal affairs in Sweden.
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March 2, 2009
Speech by Carl Bildt, Minister for Foreign Affairs, at China Foreign Affairs University
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February 4, 2009
Speech by Andreas Carlgren, Minister of the Enviroment, at the Baltic Sea Seminar
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January 26, 2009
Speech by Tobias Billström, Minister for Migration and Asylum Policy, at "Conference on the Global Forum on Migration and Development" in Athens
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November 7, 2008
Speech by Gunilla Carlsson, Minister for International Development Cooperation, on Rights Work!
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October 30, 2008
Speech by Andreas Carlgren, Minister for the Environment at ELDR Congress, Stockholm
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September 30, 2008
Speech by Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt at the Stakeholder conference - EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region
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September 9, 2008
Lars Leijonborg, Minister for Higher Education and Research. Speech at the opening of the pilot plant for carbon capture at Schwarze
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September 9, 2008
Speech by Beatrice Ask (Minister for Justice) at the conference "Building a Europe for and with children
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September 5, 2008
Sweden on the sentence against Parvin Ardalan
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September 4, 2008
Speech by Tobias Billström, Minister for Migration and Asylum Policy at the Council of Europe Conference "Economic migration, social cohesion and development: towards an integrated approach"
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September 3, 2008
Speech by Cecilia Malmström, Minister for EU Affairs at the SIEPS annual conference. Global challenges to development: The EU's role in a changing
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September 2, 2008
The Government informs the Riksdag on the conflict between Georgia and Russia, 2 September 2008
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August 26, 2008
Fredrik Reinfeldt on Russia's recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia
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August 18, 2008
Speech by Gunilla Carlsson, Minister for International Development Cooperation at World Water Week in Stockholm
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August 7, 2008
Carl Bildt on the military coup in Mauritania
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July 30, 2008
Carl Bildt on the Turkish court decision
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November 26, 2007
Sweden as the leading model for environmentally driven growth. Speech by Sweden's Minister of the Environment, Mr. Andreas Carlgren
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