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Prime Minister to meet new NATO Secretary General and hold joint press conference
Prime Minister of Sweden, Ulf Kristersson and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. Photo: NATO Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson met with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday 16 October. Following the meeting, they held a joint press conference.
A video from the press conference can be downloaded from the NATO Multimedia Portal.
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New total defence resolution for a stronger Sweden
Minister for Civil Defence Carl-Oskar Bohlin and Minister for Defence Pål Jonson. Photo: Niklas Forsström/Government Offices The Government has now presented a Total Defence Bill for the period 2025–2030. It includes substantial reinforcements of the total defence. Additional funding totalling SEK 170 billion will be allocated to the military defence and SEK 35.7 billion to the civil defence through 2030. These are historically large investments. Defence expenditures will therefore already reach 2.6 per cent of GDP in 2028.
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Swedish and Belgian Prime Ministers attended memorial on anniversary of 2023 Brussels terrorist attack
Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and Belgium’s Prime Minister Alexander de Croo. Photo: Tom Samuelsson/Gorvermnment Offices Wednesday, 16 October marks the one-year anniversary of the terrorist attack in Brussels, in which two Swedish football fans were killed and a third injured. Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and Belgium’s Prime Minister Alexander de Croo took part in a joint wreath-laying ceremony at the site where the attack took place.
Sweden’s Prime Minister receives President-elect of the European Council
President-elect of the European Council António Costa will take office at the beginning of December. On 8 October, Mr Costa was welcomed to Stockholm by Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson. During a working lunch, they discussed working methods and issues that will be high on the EU agenda going forward.
Government honours victims on anniversary of attack against Israel
On 7 October 2023, Hamas committed the worst mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust. Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson was joined by other ministers in a ceremony at Stockholm’s Great Synagogue on the evening of 7 October 2024 to honour the memory of the victims of the attack.
Enhanced cooperation between Sweden and Finland
In conjunction with the joint meeting between the Swedish and Finnish Governments, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and Finland’s Prime Minister Petteri Orpo held a joint press conference, where they presented a joint declaration on Swedish-Finnish cooperation.
To watch it in Finnish, click the link to the press release below
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.
