AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Sweden's PM Challenges U.S.(Goran Persson, environment, global warming)(Brief Article)
According to published reports, Swedish Prime Minister Goran Persson told his national parliament, "The climate issue is a key item on the European Union's (EU) agenda." Goran opened Sweden's new presidency of the 15-nation EU with a clarion call to save the environment, including a threat to extend the controversial "precautionary principle" to the chemical industry.
Reports published by UPI and the Environmental News Network categorized these statements as threatening an early clash with the new U.S. administration of George W. Bush.
In his remarks, Persson stressed that Europe would swiftly reopen the talks on controlling global warming that stalled late last year amid bitter recriminations between Americans and Europeans.
President-elect Bush was skeptical of alarmist concerns ...
- Goran Persson, Sweden's forceful new head of Government
- Magazine article from: Scandinavian Review Jonsson, Anders January 1, 1996 700+ words
...not want to become prime minister. Goran Persson's response to questioners was NO...have been far from uncontroversial. Goran Persson had not been particularly popular...decision-making takes place. Revenge Goran Persson sees himself as a person who has had...
- Undesirable Persson; Sweden's government.(Goran Persson contemplates electoral...
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) August 13, 2005 700+ words
...Social Democrats face an uphill struggle to win next year's election THE short Swedish summer is over by mid-August. As Goran Persson, the Social Democratic prime minister, returns to the political fray, he faces a long autumn trying to revive his party...
- COUNCIL OF MINISTERS: SWEDEN TAKES ON THE EUROSCEPTICS.(European Union: six...
- Newspaper article from: European Report January 13, 2001 700+ words
...a new type of Presidency." It was with these words that Goran Persson officially kicked off this six-month Presidency of the...and the countries of the Union".Referendum on the Euro.Goran Persson readily concedes, "I know that we are viewed very negatively...
- GoRAN PERSSON EMBARKS ON TOUR OF EUROPE'S CAPITALS.
- Newspaper article from: European Report May 30, 2001 700+ words
Swedish Prime Minister and acting President of the European Council Goran Persson, embarked on a tour of EU capitals on May 29 with a view to preparing for the Gothenburg European Council on June 15 and 16 with...
- Goran Persson, a Swede leading Europe.(ideas of the Swedish prime minister, who...
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) February 10, 2001 700+ words
FROM Goran Persson's office high in the Rosenbad building you look out across the water that laps Stockholm and stretches into the Baltic Sea...
- Stockholm: the right Persson. (Goran Persson accepts leadership role of Social...
- Magazine article from: Europe Weiss, Jonas February 1, 1996 700+ words
No, no, no, no finally gave way to a yes, as Goran Persson, despite repeated and numerous denials, finally accepted the leadership role of his Social Democratic Party and, consequently...
- Former Swedish Prime Minister, Goran Persson, Joins Manning Selvage & Lee's...
- Press release article from: Business Wire May 8, 2007 700+ words
NEW YORK -- Manning Selvage & Lee (MS&L) today announced that Goran Persson, Sweden's Prime Minister from 1996 to 2006, will join The JKL Group (JKL) as senior advisor and will work with MS&...
- Perssona grata: Sweden. (finance minister Goran Persson)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) January 14, 1995 700+ words
"NO OTHER government in Europe has the strength to do what we are doing," boasted Goran Persson, Sweden's jovial Social Democratic finance minister when he unveiled the 1995-96 budget on January 10th. In announcing tax...