Sweden in the EU

Syria: Statement by the High Representative on behalf of the European Union on the recent wave of violence

Poland, which holds the EU presidency in the spring of 2025, has invited Minister for Education Johan Pehrson and his counterparts in other EU countries to an informal meeting of the Competitiveness Council (COMPET). The meeting will take place on March 10-11.

Minister for EU Affairs Jessica Rosencrantz is visiting Albania and Montenegro on 10–12 March to meet political representatives and discuss their reform efforts towards EU membership.

On the third anniversary of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, the EU has adopted the 16th sanctions package since the launch of the full-scale invasion in February 2022. The new sanctions package includes additional measures targeting the ‘shadow fleet’ and expanded import and export bans on Russian natural resources such as primary aluminium. The package also includes additional anti-circumvention measures.

Opinion piece, Financial Times, 24 February 2025,by Maria Malmer Stenergard, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Sweden, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Denmark, Margus Tsahkna, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Estonia, Elina Valtonen, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Finland, Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Iceland, Baiba Braže, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Latvia, Kęstutis Budrys, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Lithuania, and Espen Barth Eide, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Norway.

On 19 February 2025, Minister for Civil Defence Carl-Oskar Bohlin received Poland’s Minister of the Interior and Administration Tomasz Siemoniak for bilateral talks. The two ministers signed a Letter of Intent to work further on the strategic partnership agreement between Sweden and Poland.  

Today, 12 February, Minister for Foreign Affairs Maria Malmer Stenergard presented the Government’s 2025 Statement of Foreign Policy in the Riksdag. The Government’s foremost foreign policy priorities are support to Ukraine, security cooperation, and gender equality and women’s empowerment.

On 12 February, Minister for Foreign Affairs Maria Malmer Stenergard presented the 2025 Statement of Foreign Policy in the Riksdag. Check against delivery.

The new support – totalling SEK 100 million – is expected to be channelled into Moldova’s energy vulnerability fund, which assists vulnerable households in managing elevated energy costs following the Russian Gazprom’s halting of its gas supplies. SEK 200

On 30–31 January, State Secretary Anders Hall took part in an informal meeting of the EU Justice and Home Affairs Council (JHA) in Warsaw, Poland. In conjunction with the meeting, Mr Hall paid a visit to Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency.

Opinion piece by Minister for EU Affairs Jessica Rosencrantz, Dagens Industri, 8 January 2025

Minister for Foreign Affairs Maria Malmer Stenergard, along with her Nordic and Baltic colleagues, has written a letter urging the EU Commission proposing to lower the oil price cap within the G7.

The EU has adopted a fifteenth sanctions package in response to Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. These sanctions are one of the primary tools to counteract Russia and support Ukraine by constraining the Russian State’s revenues and military capability. The new sanctions package includes additional measures against the ‘shadow fleet’, circumvention of sanctions and third-country support to Russia.

Today, 16 December, Minister for Foreign Affairs Maria Malmer Stenergard is taking part in the EU Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels.

We welcome the revision of the Directive on combating sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child sexual abuse material and wish to declare the following.

Syria: Statement by the High Representative on behalf of the European Union on the fall of the Assad regime

The Government’s strategy Sweden in a digital world – a strategy for Sweden’s foreign and security policy on cyber and digital issues is being launched on 9 December.

On 3–4 December, Minister for Foreign Affairs Maria Malmer Stenergard will take part in the Meeting of NATO Ministers of Foreign Affairs in Brussels, which will lay the groundwork ahead of the NATO Summit in The Hague in mid-2025. The agenda includes support to Ukraine and cooperation with countries in North Africa and the Middle East.

Statement from Minister for Health Care Acko Ankarberg Johansson.

Statement by the High Representative on behalf of the European Union.