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Turkey withdraws its ambassador to Sweden in protest at Armenia vote. A diplomatic row is brewing between Sweden and Turkey after Sweden's parliament yesterday voted to...

EU's foreign policy chief to try to secure support for EEAS from foreign ministers. Catherine Ashton, the EU's foreign policy chief, is to present her plans for the Union's...

Carl Bildt, Sweden's foreign minister, has written to Catherine Ashton, the European Union's foreign policy chief, complaining that member states were not consulted on...

A reader unappeased by the Swedish foreign minister's defence of the EU's policy towards Bosnia. Carl Bildt's attempted riposte (“Not appeasing, but seeking to advance...

Hoping for peace in Bosnia. Carl Bildt, Sweden's foreign minister, is back to shuttle diplomacy in the Balkans. He served as the EU's mediator at the Dayton peace talks that...

The EU membership bids of Croatia and Turkey could pose the biggest external relations problems for the Swedish presidency. The Swedish presidency will inherit two big...

Swedish MEP may get to spend quality time with her husband. It is sometimes said that people become MEPs to be able to spend time away from their families. This is not a...

Carl Bildt says trip was planned with French and UK foreign minister who were given visas. Sweden recalls ambassador to Colombo. Carl Bildt, Sweden's foreign minister, has...

As the wind of change turns chillier, the favourite comfort blanket for defenders of Western liberalism is the EU Barack Obama, Nicolas Sarkozy and Dmitry Medvedev are...

Swift resumption of talks on a partnership agreement with Russia appears unlikely. EU leaders have confirmed that they will hold a summit meeting with Russia on 14 November,...

Could the European Parliament bring together the Parmesan-loving wife of Carl Bildt and a homestead unionist? Marita Ulvskog, the Eurosceptic party secretary of the Swedish...

Professor Žiga Turk, 45, the technological wizard who helped attune his native Slovenia to the digital world in the 1980s, was “surprised and flattered” to be appointed,...

While UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown delayed his appearance for the signing of the Lisbon treaty on 13 December, Sweden stole the show with a guest appearance by Princess...

Launching a Swedish defence study last week, Carl Bildt, the Swedish foreign minister, said that his country would no longer be passive if Norway or Iceland was attacked by a...

There is not a week without an attempt to stick Carl Bildt with some factitious filth invented by the malevolent and hypocritical Swedish press. Just after his inauguration...

Hans Blix, the former chief weapons inspector of the United Nations, has cast doubt on the EU's offer to Iran aimed at preventing Tehran from developing nuclear weapons. He...

Do I miss editing European Voice? It's a question I've often been asked since stepping down from one of the best jobs I had in journalism. I was in the editorial hot-seat...

The truth can now be told about how EV reporter Martin Banks scooped the rest of the media with his exclusive report from New York last week on what UN weapons inspector Hans...

“The situation with Iraq is that we're at the end of the string. We've tried diplomacy for 12 years, we've tried economic sanctions, and they have not worked.”US Defense...