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    staff, a group of young aides such as Ingvar Carlsson and Bengt K. Å. Johansson, a group that became known as "the boys". From 1955 he was a board member...
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    Retrieved 11 December 2021. "Coronasituasjonen i Sverige: – Vær forberedt på å avlyse jula". Dagbladet (in Norwegian). 7 December 2021. Archived from the...
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  • Folkhemmet (Swedish: [ˈfɔ̂lkˌhɛmːɛt], "the people's home") is a political concept that played an important role in the history of the Swedish Social Democratic...
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    After finishing studies Carlsson got a job in Erlander's staff, along with other young aides such as Palme and Bengt K. Å. Johansson. Erlander called this...
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    Persson (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈjœ̂ːran ˈpæ̌ːʂɔn]; born 20 January 1949) is a Swedish politician who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1996 to 2006...
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    Per Albin Hansson (28 October 1885 – 6 October 1946) was a Swedish politician, chairman of the Social Democrats from 1925 and two-time Prime Minister...
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  • Ungdomsförbund [ˈsvæ̌rjɛs sʊsɪˈɑ̂ːldɛmʊˌkrɑːtɪska ˈɵ̂ŋdʊmsfœrˌbɵnd] ; abbr. SSU) is a branch of the Swedish Social Democratic Party and the Swedish Trade Union...
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  • Magdalena Andersson, is a member of the Social Democratic Party. Founded in 1889 as a member of the Second International, a split occurred in 1917 when...
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    pronunciation: [ˈstěːfan lœˈveːn]; officially Löfvén; born 21 July 1957) is a Swedish politician who has served as the President of European Socialists...
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    consisting of young Social Democrats such as Palme, Ingvar Carlsson, and Bengt K. Å. Johansson. In the 1960s, Erlander began to call his group of young aides...
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    1957) is a Swedish politician who was leader of the opposition and leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 2007 to 2011. Sahlin was a Member...
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  • Organisation in Sweden"), commonly referred to as LO (Swedish: [ˈɛ̂lːuː] ), is a national trade union centre, an umbrella organisation for fourteen Swedish...
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    pronunciation: [ˈjǎlmar ˈbrânːtɪŋ] ; 23 November 1860 – 24 February 1925) was a Swedish politician who was the leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party...
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  • The Olof Palme International Center is a Swedish non-governmental organization and the Swedish labour movement's cooperative body for international issues...
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  • Sweden invited the Palestinian-British academic Azzam Tamimi to hold a speech at a seminar at the Stockholm Mosque entitled Islam and Democratic Development...
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    to a pause on 26 October 2010, and was completely dissolved (according to a spokesperson for the Green Party) on 26 November. The Red-Greens as a political...
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    Regeringen Hansson II) was the cabinet of Sweden from 1936 to 1939. It was a coalition cabinet consisting of the two parties: Social Democrats and the...
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    2021 during a formal government meeting with King Carl XVI Gustaf, but Andersson decided to resign due to a precedent regarding changes in a government's...
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  • the funding of a national women’s league was to promote and activate women politically, as well as to acquire access to power and provide a political power...
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    Swedish labour movement. ABF conducts seminars, classes and study circles on a variety of subjects, including workshops, languages and music. ABF was founded...
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  • prescriptions and paid sickness leave for workers. In 1947, a unanimous Riksdag approved the barnbidrag; a policy of children's allowance for all children younger...
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    It was a coalition, consisting of two parties: the Social Democrats and the Green Party. The cabinet was installed on 9 July 2021, during a formal government...
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  • Sweden between 12 March 1986 and February 1990. The cabinet was formed as a direct consequence of the assassination of the incumbent prime minister Olof...
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    regeringen Löfven I) was the cabinet of Sweden between 2014 and 2018. It was a coalition government, consisting of two parties: the Social Democrats and...
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    League, the People's Party and the National Organization of the Right. It was a national unity government formed for reasons of national stability during...
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    been applied in 1889–1896. He was a tailor by occupation. In the years 1880–1890 he worked in Copenhagen and became a member of the tailor's union board...
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  • organisation to argue for a Swedish EU (EC) membership and also the first to call for a common European currency. The organisation also has a strong relationship...
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    election, he and the Persson Cabinet (Swedish: Regeringen Persson) lost power to a centre-right coalition government. When Ingvar Carlsson in the fall of 1995...
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    In a vote of no-confidence held on 21 June 2021, the prime minister was voted out of office. The cabinet remained a caretaker government until a new...
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  • Leif Linde (born 1955) is a Swedish politician who was the secretary general of the Swedish Social Democratic Party between 1994 and 1996. He has been...
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