After finishing two parts of the first part of this collection, I made its third and last part with the same image maker. Also, it's got 12 more portraits of 12 world politicians.
Sweden will speed up its review of security policy, which includes a view on possible NATO membership, with the result to be published in mi
Sweden will speed up its review of security policy, which includes a view on possible NATO membership, with the result to be published in mid-May rather than at the end of that month, Foreign Minister Ann Linde said on Tuesday.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has left Sweden and neighbouring Finland - neither of which is a member of NATO - scrambling to react to a more threatening security environment.
"We have agreed that we will bring forward the publication of the report to May 13. That's roughly two weeks earlier than we have said until now," Linde told reporters after meeting leaders of Sweden's other political parties.
"If Finland finally makes this decision (to join NATO), and everything points in that direction ... it will naturally have a big influence on our analysis," she added.
Russia's war in Ukraine, which it calls a "special operation", has forced Sweden and Finland to examine whether their deep-rooted reliance on military neutrality is still the best means of ensuring national security.
Sweden's ruling Social Democrats, who have always opposed NATO membership, are rethinking their position, and the all-party security review could confirm that a majority of parliament backs an application.
Earlier this week, Finland's parliament expressed support for joining some kind of military alliance and a decision on whether to apply form membership of NATO is expected within weeks.
Finland is Sweden's closest military ally. If Helsinki goes ahead with an application to join NATO, that would heap pressure on Stockholm to follow suit.
Finland's President Sauli Niinisto has held discussions with a number of NATO countries to ensure a smooth process should the country decide to apply for membership.
Linde said that Sweden had also undertaken "preparatory work," in order to make sure that all avenues are open to Sweden. She declined to give further details.
Russia has repeatedly warned of serious consequences if Finland and Sweden join NATO, most recently saying it would respond by deploying nuclear weapons and hypersonic missiles to its Kaliningrad exclave, just 500 km from the Swedish capital.
Choose your fighter: Kamala Harris being the first female American president for 85 min or Magdalena Andersson being the first female Swedish prime minister for 7 h
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The 54-year-old economist will have to face a fragmented parliament.
Sweden will be getting its first female prime minister. She is Social Democrat Magdalena Andersson who had been finance minister in the government of Stefan Löfven.
As in many countries these days, there are deep divisions in Swedish politics. The new prime minister won by one vote.
Magdalena Andersson, Sweden’s Social Democratic Party chief, vowed to push back violent crime and support low-income workers after she narrowly secured the parliamentary support she needed to become her country’s first female prime minister on Wednesday.
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A fragmented Swedish parliament backed Andersson as Löfven’s successor by one vote. Under the Swedish system, a candidate cannot become prime minister if they are rejected by a majority in parliament, or 175 votes. Only 174 lawmakers rejected Andersson.
After the vote, Andersson said she would focus on law and order and the welfare state, seeking to use her first comments as prime minister to reach out to voters on the right and left with an election looming next September.
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A ministerial adviser between the mid-1990s and 2009, she was brought back into politics in 2012 by Löfven as his spokesperson for the economy. She became finance minister in 2014 when the Social Democrats won that year’s election.
In that role, she has secured a reputation as a competent operator prepared to debate fiercely with opponents.
Sweden was the last of the five fully independent Scandinavian countries to get a female president or prime minister. The first was Vigdís Finnbogadóttir who served as president of Iceland from 1980 to 1995
