On Friday Sweden got a new government lead by PM Fredrik Reinfeldt. My favourite political blogger and former PM Carl Bildt was appointed Foreign Minster. Jyllands Posten ran the news already on Thursday night quoting an inside source, which on Friday morning turned out to be true. The appointment caught most people by surprise since Carl Bildt on the election night said that he didn’t wanted to be part of the government. He was an old PM and to have old PMs in a new government is not good.
But Sweden, as a small country, doesn’t have that many persons with great knowledge on what goes on in the world and a network of contacts that the rest of us just dream about. Probably just resigning Foreign Minster Jan Eliasson, who was a diplomat most of his life before becoming the President of the United Nations General Assembly and then by March this year Foreign Minister. So they exist, but they are rare breed. And no wonder are wanted in the govermnet.
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