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  • Support for Ukraine, security cooperation and Sweden’s neighbourhood in the spotlight in this year’s Statement of Foreign Policy

    • Ukraine's Ambassador to Sweden and Sweden's Minister for Foreign Affairs outside the entrence of the Swedish Parliament.

      Minister for Foreign Affairs Maria Malmer Stenergard walked with Ukraine's Ambassador to Sweden, Andrii Plakhotniuk, to the Swedish Parliament for the presentation of the 2025 Statement of Foreign Policy.

      Photo: Frida Drake/Government Offices of Sweden

    • Ukraine's Ambassador to Sweden and Sweden's Minister for Foreign Affairs in the Swedish Parliament outside the chamber.

      Andrii Plakhotniuk, Ukraine's Ambassador to Sweden, and Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard.

      Photo: Frida Drake/Government Offices of Sweden

    • The Minister for Foreign Affaris at the podium in the Swedish Parliament.

      Minister for Foreign Affairs Maria Malmer Stenergard is presenting the Statement of Foreign Policy 2025.

      Photo: Frida Drake/Government Offices of Sweden

    • Overview image of the chamber in the Swedish Parliament where the Statement of Foreign Policy was presented.

      The 2025 Statement of Foreign Policy was presented in the Swedish Parliament.

      Photo: Frida Drake/Government Offices of Sweden

    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.

  • Prime Minister announced national minute of silence following Örebro attack

    Flags at half mast following attack in Örebro
    Flags at half mast following attack in Örebro. Photo: Ninni Andersson/Government Offices of Sweden

    To honour the victims of the attack in Örebro, a minute of silence was observed on Tuesday 11 February at 12.00.

Paulina Brandberg, Minister for Gender Equality and Working Life sitting in a sofa..
Paulina Brandberg, Minister for Gender Equality and Working Life. Photo: Government Offices

Proud and safe - a new action plan for equal rights and opportunities for LGBTIQ people

The Government is announcing a new action plan for an inclusive and equal society. The action plan aims to further strengthen efforts to support rights and opportunities for LGBTIQ people by consolidating, supplementing and mobilising these efforts.

Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, Minister for Culture Parisa Liljestrand, HRH Crown Princess Victoria and the Speaker of the Riksdag Andreas Norlén at Auschwitz memorial ceremony.
Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, Minister for Culture Parisa Liljestrand, HRH Crown Princess Victoria and the Speaker of the Riksdag Andreas Norlén at Auschwitz memorial ceremony. Photo: Tom Samuelsson/Government Offices of Sweden.

Prime Minister and Minister for Culture attended Auschwitz memorial ceremony

Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and Minister for Culture Parisa Liljestrand attended a ceremony on Monday 27 January 2025 to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp.

Illustration: The Government Offices of Sweden

Key acts and ordinances entering into force in late 2024/early 2025

This compilation contains a selection of the acts and ordinances – both new and amended – that enter into force in the second half of 2024 or in early 2025.

Illustration: Government Offices

Sweden's new migration policy

Sweden’s migration policy is undergoing a paradigm shift. The Government is intensifying its efforts to reduce, in full compliance with Sweden’s international commitments, the number of migrants coming irregularly to Sweden. Labour immigration fraud and abuses must be stopped and the ‘shadow society’ combated.

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