Minister for EU Affairs, Prime Minister’s Office
« Sweden must be an involved and proactive force in the European Union. Our objective is to work in cooperation with the EU to promote greater security, democracy, freedom and prosperity in the world. Sweden must work for an EU that concentrates on fewer and genuinely cross-border assignments, where emphasis is given to issues that concern the everyday lives of European citizens. »
Aims for the Presidency
The Government’s aims for the Presidency are as follows:
- The Government will conduct an effective, open and results-oriented Presidency in the interests of the whole of Europe.
- The Government will advance the EU’s common issues and Sweden’s priority issues.
- The Government will strengthen Sweden’s role in the EU, serve the EU’s interests and strengthen the EU’s role as a global actor.
- The Government has high ambitions for the Presidency. At the same time, it is important to have realistic expectations of what the country holding the Presidency can do in its six months.
- The Presidency will « inherit » a large portion of its agenda, since most of the matters to be dealt with by the EU in the second half of 2009 will already have opened before our Presidency.
- The country holding the Presidency must also be prepared to deal with unexpected events and therefore has limited opportunities to pursue its own issues.
Work programme for the presidency
The work programme for the Swedish Presidency presents the Government’s priority issues, i.e. those issues that Sweden particularly wants to highlight during its Presidency. The programme also presents the issues that are important to Sweden in each policy area.
Première femme à atteindre le pole SUD.
Cecilia Malström – Lecturer / Antarctica & South Pole
Cecilia Malström was born in the north of Sweden. She obtained her Master’s Degree in geography at University of Stockholm. As the first female technician of the Amanda Project, South Pole Antarctica, she worked with a team of scientists to build the world’s largest telescope. This also made her the first Swedish woman ever to reach the Geographical South Pole. Stationed there for four months, she lived in a tent and endured freezing, -58°C weather. Cecilia continues to travel around giving presentations about her experiences at the South Pole. She is planning to go back to the South Pole to work and then document her work as a technician. Her profession in Sweden is as a lecturer in tourism management at the University in Gavle, where she is working on a project starting a new tourism programme for high schools. In her free time, she loves to drive her 21 sledge dogs with her family in the Swedish mountains.
Guadeloupe Attitude 