Tag: Moderate Party

  • Kristersson speaks at the Moderatstämman

    Kristersson speaks at the Moderatstämman

    The moderate party meeting is underway in Umeå and party leader Ulf Kristersson is speaking. Among other things, it will be about NATO membership, gang crime and European cooperation. Hear analysis and commentary with Helen Gissén in Ekot’s broadcast.

  • Right now: Hear the political commentator’s analysis of Ulf Kristersson’s speech

    Right now: Hear the political commentator’s analysis of Ulf Kristersson’s speech

    Moderate party leader Ulf Kristersson gave the opening speech during this year’s Almedal Week. “Don’t forget that hopefulness is not a feeling. Hopefulness is an obligation,” Kristersson said at the end of his Almedal speech. “There was an unusual amount of talk about preventive work,” says Ekot’s domestic policy commentator Fredrik Furtenbach about Kristersson’s speech.

  • Right now: The polling stations in Denmark have closed

    Right now: The polling stations in Denmark have closed

    The polling stations have now closed in Denmark. Follow Ekot’s live broadcast of the polling station survey directly from Copenhagen. A total of thirteen parties are running in Tuesday’s election in Denmark. The incumbent Social Democratic Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s biggest challenger is the blue party Venstre with party leader Jakob Ellemann-Jensen. However, his opinion…

  • New Swedish government tightens migration policy

    New Swedish government tightens migration policy

    Sweden has historically been seen as Europe’s most welcoming country to refugees, but observers say that changed in 2015 when the government decided to close its borders. The election in September of a new government led by the far-right Sweden Democrats has further tightened migration policy. Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson’s Moderate Party, the Liberals and…

  • Prime Minister Modi congratulates Sweden’s Ulf Kristersson on becoming the new Prime Minister

    Prime Minister Modi congratulates Sweden’s Ulf Kristersson on becoming the new Prime Minister

    New Delhi [India], October 19 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday congratulated Ulf Kristersson, the Moderate party leader, on becoming the next Prime Minister of Sweden. The Prime Minister said he looks forward to working together to strengthen bilateral relations. “Congratulations to HE Mr. Ulf Kristersson on his election as the next Prime Minister…

  • The Riksdag approves Ulf Kristersson as the new prime minister

    STOCKHOLM, October 17 (Xinhua) — The leader of the Moderate Party, Ulf Kristersson, was voted by the Riksdag to be Sweden’s new prime minister on Monday. Kristersson received 176 yes votes in the Riksdag with 349 seats, while 173 voted no. There were no abstentions. Kristersson is expected to announce his new cabinet on Tuesday.…

  • Right now: The Moderates’ Ulf Kristersson is questioned

    Right now: The Moderates’ Ulf Kristersson is questioned

    Ekot’s party leader hearing with Monica Saarinen and Johar Bendjelloul. First up is Moderate party leader Ulf Kristersson.

  • The NCP and the Swedish moderates form the NATO working group

    The NCP and the Swedish moderates form the NATO working group

    The Finnish Center-Right Coalition Party (NCP) and its Swedish counterpart, the Moderates, have formed a special NATO working group. The parties want Finland and Sweden to submit joint applications to the military alliance by the end of June, when NATO will host a summit in Madrid, Spain. The cross-border working group will meet for the…

  • Prime Minister under fire for employing illegal immigrants

    Prime Minister under fire for employing illegal immigrants

    The Swedish politician says that anyone can be deceived by? Dishonest companies? Sweden’s recently appointed Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson has been the subject of increased scrutiny by the media and political opponents after an illegal immigrant cleaner was found working in her home. According to the newspaper Expressen, which was the first with the news…

  • The Swedish government is accused of failure in handling the COVID-19 pandemic

    The Swedish government is accused of failure in handling the COVID-19 pandemic

    The Swedish government was accused on Thursday by the parliamentary constitutional committee of having failed with several aspects of its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the committee, the center-left minority administration was not fast enough to implement a test and tracking system, failed to protect the elderly and did not clearly distinguish lines…

  • Ekot’s Saturday interview

    Ekot’s Saturday interview

    Moderate party leader Ulf Kristersson is this week’s guest in Ekot’s Saturday interview. Comment: Fredrik Furtenbach, domestic policy commentator at Ekot. Then about Preem in Lysekil and the Green Party’s narrow seat in the government. Is the oil refinery threatening government cooperation? Conversation with Tomas Ramberg, domestic policy commentator at Ekot and Annika Digréus, environmental…