Meet the commissioners: Class of 2024
Everything you need to know about Ursula von der Leyen’s team for her second term.
Tobias Billström
Sweden names Maria Malmer Stenergard as new foreign minister
Jessica Rosencrantz will be the country’s new EU minister.
Swedish foreign minister with term marked by NATO accession resigns
Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billström unexpectedly announced his resignation on Wednesday evening, halfway through a term marked by his country’s accession to NATO, amid speculation of a rift between him and Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson.
Ukraine’s Kursk invasion ‘devastating’ for Putin, says Sweden
Foreign minister Tobias Billström says incursion into Russian region has more political than territorial value
Swedish Foreign Minister opens the door to new sanctions against Chinese companies
Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billström opened the door to new EU sanctions against Chinese companies, accused of circumventing EU sanctions against Russia, to export goods via third countries into the country.
‘Leave now,’ UK tells British nationals in Lebanon
U.S. embassy in Beirut encourages American citizens in the country “to book any ticket available.”
EU diplomat Johan Floderus freed by Iran in prisoner exchange
In exchange for Floderus, Sweden has agreed to release Iranian former prison official Hamid Nouri.
As Russia’s shadow fleet menaces Sweden, here’s how the EU could help
Though it’s impossible to block this subversive armada, there are steps the bloc could take that would at least make Russia’s business harder to execute.
EU agrees to tackle Russia’s shadow oil fleet, Sweden says
The dark fleet camouflaged by Moscow “fuels the war chest of Russia,” Swedish foreign minister says.
Relieved by US progress on Ukraine aid, Europe grapples with its own support for Kyiv
Estonia and Sweden are among European countries warning against complacency, as EU foreign ministers are set to discuss Ukraine on Monday.
‘Russia doesn’t care’: Sweden sounds alarm over unsafe oil fleet
Foreign minister warns of environmental catastrophe in Baltic Sea as he accuses Moscow of using unseaworthy vesselsRussia appears prepared to create “environmental havoc” by sailing unseaworthy oil tankers through the Baltic Sea in breach of all mariti…
‘We just want Johan back’ — an EU diplomat has spent 2 years in Iran’s most notorious prison
Authoritarian governments have learned they can trade Western humanitarian workers and journalists for convicted killers and intelligence agents.
NATO must create ‘more strategic difficulties for Russia’, Sweden’s FM says
The West should aim to create more “strategic difficulties” in a bid to reign in Russia’s behaviour, with the first priority being to “stop the aggression against Ukraine”, an area where NATO is not doing enough, Sweden’s Foreign Minister Tobias Billst…