Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, representing the Swedish Presidency, spoke on the telephone with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin this evening about the fact that Ukraine risks not being able to meet its payment commitments to the company Gazprom.
Jörgen Samuelsson is chair of the Council Working Party on Telecommunications and Information Society. The most important issue during the autumn is the formulation of future IT policy, and here Jörgen is hoping to get help from those who are most familiar with the network, namely the users.
Czech President Vaclav Klaus has signed the Treaty. Thus the final hurdle in the way of the Treaty of Lisbon has been cleared.
Climate was the most important issue during Tuesday's summit between the European Union and the United States. Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, representing the EU Presidency, European Commission President José Manuel Barroso and EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana, met with U.S. President Barack Obama in the White House. The situation in Afghanistan, Iran and a new energy cooperation were also among the topics on the agenda.
On 6 November, Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt will meet Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at an EU-India summit in New Delhi. Fredrik Reinfeldt is hoping for constructive discussions, not least ahead of the upcoming Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.
On 20 November a high-level conference on the rights of the child is being organised within the framework of the Swedish Presidency of the European Union. The conference will be held at Frösundavik in Stockholm on the 20th anniversary of the introduction of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
In connection with the EU–India Summit, a Business Summit between the EU and India was held in New Delhi on Friday 6 November. European participants included Sweden’s Minister for Trade Ewa Björling, EU Trade Commissioner Catherine Ashton and business leaders.
“It was a fantastic experience. I remember the fall of the Berlin Wall very well. On that very evening my wife and I were invited to dinner at my colleague’s, the Danish Consul-General’s, house. While waiting for the taxi we turned on the TV”, Ingemar Stjenberg, who was Swedish Consul-General in West Berlin at the time of the fall of the wall, recounts. On Monday it was twenty years to the day that the Berlin Wall fell, on 9 November 1989, and the border between East and West Berlin was opened.
