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Statement of Foreign Policy
Published · Speech from Maria Malmer Stenergard, Ministry for Foreign Affairs
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.
To honour the victims of the attack in Örebro, a minute of silence was observed on Tuesday 11 February at 12.00.
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 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.
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.
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.
Published · Speech from Maria Malmer Stenergard, Ministry for Foreign Affairs