Sweden takes over EU presidency

The Local ^ | July 1 | AFP/The Local

[Bushwacker777]

"Stockholm wants to get the EU to sign up to a new UN global warming treaty to be negotiated in Copenhagen in December and which would replace the Kyoto Protocol on cutting carbon emissions that expires in 2012.

"We need a global answer to this global problem," Reinfeldt said.

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Other priorities include EU enlargement, of which Sweden is a fierce advocate, improving European judicial cooperation, and developing a strategy to improve the Baltic Sea's marine environment and the region's growth potential.

Reinfeldt's government will host the European Commission for a meeting in Stockholm on Wednesday that will formally open the Swedish presidency.

That will be followed by festivities at Stockholm's Skansen open air museum attended by the Swedish government, the Commission and Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia and the public."

[Bushwacker777]

Well, the EU presidency swings back to the left.

[WesternCulture]

It’s a nice thing my country, as a member of the EU, is given this opportunity.

It’s saddening though that my Sweden doesn’t wish to make full use of the opportunities this presidency contains.

Okay, that sounded overly pessimistic perhaps.

Sweden will probably demand more of budget discipline from its sloppy, siesta, zero growth southern neighbors and if change appear down there, that is good news.

Scandinavian discipline!