Toyota City, Japan, Feb 3, 2023 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Sweden was the scene of TGR-WRT’s first victory in 2017 when Jari-Matti Latvala – now Team Principal – claimed a shock win in only the team’s second event. Since then the team has taken three further wins in the rally’s last three editions, […]
In this file photo dated Jan 25, 2023, Finland's Foreign Affairs Minister Pekka Haavisto attends a joint press conference with Latvia's foreign affairs minister (unseen) after talks in Riga, Latvia. (PHOTO / AFP) HELSINKI – Finland is sticking to its plan to join NATO at the same time as Nordic neighbor Sweden, and hopes to […]
In this file photo taken on Jan 27, 2023, Sweden's Minister of Foreign Affairs Tobias Billstrom holds a joint press conference with Latvia's Minister of Foreign Affairs in Riga. (PHOTO / AFP) STOCKHOLM – Sweden's Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom said on Saturday that the country's North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) process has paused, local media […]
Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto talks to the press during an EU foreign ministers meeting in Brussels on Jan 23, 2023. (JOHN THYS / AFP) HELSINKI- Finland's foreign minister said on Tuesday a timeout of a few weeks is needed in the talks between Finland, Sweden and Türkiye on the two Nordic nations' plans to […]
Protesters demonstrate in front of the Consulate General of Sweden after Rasmus Paludan, leader of Danish far-right political party Hard Line and who also has Swedish citizenship burned a copy of the Koran near the Turkish Embassy in Stockholm, in Istanbul, Turkey, on Jan 21, 2023. (YASIN AKGUL / AFP) STOCKHOLM – Protests in Stockholm […]
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu (right) and Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom hold a joint press conference in Ankara, Türkiye, on Dec 22, 2022. (MUSTAFA KAYA / XINHUA) ANKARA – Sweden has not taken enough "concrete steps" to extradite people that Ankara sees as terrorists and freeze their assets, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said […]
Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto signs a petition for NATO membership application in Helsinki, May 17, 2022. (ANNTI AIMO-KOIVISTO / LEHTIKUVA VIA AP) HELSINKI — Following its emergency meeting on Monday, the government of Finland submitted to Parliament a draft proposal on the country's accession to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). However, the speaker […]
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu (right) and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg (left) address a press conference after their meeting at The Foreign Ministry in Istanbul, on Nov 3, 2022. (OZAN KOSE / AFP) ISTANBUL – Sweden and Finland have fulfilled their obligations to Türkiye and should be allowed entry into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization […]
Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson arrives for an EU summit in Brussels, Oct 20, 2022. (GEERT VANDEN WIJNGAERT / AP) HELSINKI – Ways to further enhance cooperation between Finland and Sweden, especially on their path to membership of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), topped the agenda of talks here between the prime ministers of […]
Sweden's newly elected Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (center) walks next to ministers of the new government, after the change of government council at the Royal Palace in Stockholm, on Oct 18, 2022. (JONATHAN NACKSTRAND / AFP) STOCKHOLM – The new government of Sweden was announced on Tuesday, composed of freshly-elected Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and […]
Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson speaks during a press conference after she presented her resignation to the speaker of the Swedish Parliament on Sept 15, 2022, in Stockholm. (JONATHAN NACKSTRAND / AFP) STOCKHOLM – Sweden's outgoing Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson has handed in her resignation to the speaker of parliament, she said on Thursday, paving […]
A woman walks next to election posters of Ulf Kristersson, leader of the Moderate Party in Sweden, and leader of the Social Democrats and Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson in Stockholm on Sept 8, 2022. (JONATHAN NACKSTRAND / AFP) STOCKHOLM – The head of Sweden's Moderate Party, Ulf Kristersson, said on Wednesday he would begin […]
Supporters of the Sweden Democrats cheer during the Party's election night in Nacka, near Stockholm after exit polls were released during the general elections in Sweden on Sept 11, 2022. (JONATHAN NACKSTRAND / AFP) STOCKHOLM – Preliminary results of the 2022 Swedish parliamentary elections showed early Monday morning that the opposition blue bloc gained 49.7 […]
Leader of the Sweden Democrats Jimmie Akesson speaks during an election rally on Sept 10, 2022, in Stockholm, ahead of the general elections on Sept 11, 2022, (JONATHAN NACKSTRAND / AFP) STOCKHOLM – Swedes vote on Sunday in an election pitting the incumbent centre-left Social Democrats against a right-wing bloc that has embraced the anti-immigration […]
A picture taken on Nov 20, 2019 shows a NATO flag at the NATO headquarters in Brussels, during a NATO Foreign Affairs ministers' summit. (KENZO TRIBOUILLARD / AFP) OTTAWA – Canada became the first country to formally ratify Finland and Sweden's accession to NATO in an accelerated process completed shortly after member nations signed off […]