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  • The Prime Minister presents Royal Order of the Polar Star to Jens Stoltenberg

    Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson presented the Royal Order of the Polar Star to former NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg
    Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson presented the Royal Order of the Polar Star to former NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg Photo: Tom Samuelsson/The Government Offices

    Saturday 15 February, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson presented the Royal Order of the Polar Star to former NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. The Order was conferred on Stoltenberg for his extraordinary efforts for Swedish interests.

  • Joint statement from the Nordic-Baltic leaders

    Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and President Volodymyr Zelensky walking and talking in an urban landscape.
    Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and President Volodymyr Zelensky in Stockholm. Photo: Tom Samuelsson/ The Government Offices

    Nordic-Baltic leaders’ statement (Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden, 14 February 2025).

  • 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.

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.

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

Prime Minister announced national minute of silence following Örebro attack

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

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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