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Sweden’s new overseas minister ends “feminist overseas coverage” shortly after taking workplace
Sweden’s new overseas minister, Tobias Billstrom, has introduced that he’s ending the “feminist overseas coverage” spearheaded by his nation, because the label has develop into extra essential than the content material itself.
Billstrom added that they’ll proceed to work for gender equality.
The left authorities, which had been in energy for a few years earlier than the suitable authorities took workplace in Sweden, began this coverage in 2014 and have become the primary nation to place gender equality on the middle of its relations with different international locations.
There have been additionally critics of this coverage.
“Whereas gender equality is vital to Sweden and its authorities, we’ll now not pursue a feminist overseas coverage,” Billstrom stated. As a result of the labels on some issues could make their content material invisible,” he stated.
Margot Wallstrom, the previous overseas minister who carried out this coverage, stated that the idea of the coverage was girls’s rights, illustration and entry to sources.
Alternatively, Paulina Brandberdg, Minister of Gender Equality of the brand new right-wing authorities, who stated she helps feminist overseas coverage, stated, “So long as I’m in workplace, I’ll be certain that the federal government’s insurance policies are feminist.”
The novel overseas coverage of the earlier authorities brought about diplomatic issues with some international locations, and in 2015 Saudi Arabia recalled its ambassador in Stockholm after Wallstrom’s feedback on girls’s rights in Saudi Arabia.
When Saudi Arabia was not happy with this and blocked Wallstrom’s speech on the Arab League, Stockholm responded by canceling the arms sale settlement.
Though the Social Democrats received the election on September 11, the left coalition that has dominated Sweden for years misplaced its majority within the Parliament by 3 seats.
The centre-right, Christian democratic and liberal events shaped a minority authorities on Friday, supported externally by the far-right Sweden Democrats.
The far-rightists, who got here second within the election with about 20 p.c of the vote, introduced that they’d assist the federal government so long as their calls for had been met on immigration and judicial points.