Margot Wallström

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Margot Wallström (2018)

Margot Wallström [ ˈmargɔt ˈvalstrøːm ] (born September 28, 1954 in Kåge ) is a Swedish social democratic politician . She accompanied various ministerial offices between 1988 and 2019. Most recently she was foreign minister of her country from 2014 to 2019 . From 1999 to 2010 she was a member of the European Commission .

career

Margot Wallström initially worked as a bank clerk for two years from 1977. From 1979 to 1985 she was a member of the Swedish parliament. From 1986 to 1987 she was an auditor at Sparkasse Sparbanken Alfa .

In 1988 Wallström was appointed Swedish Minister for Consumers , Churches and Youth (until 1991). From 1994 to 1996 she was Minister of Culture , then Minister of Social Affairs until 1998.

She has been a member of the Social Democrats' executive committee since April 2015. She had already been a member of this body from the mid-1990s to March 2000.

Environment and European policy

From 1999 to 2004 she was responsible for the environment in the Prodi Commission . From 2004 to 2010 she was Commissioner for Institutional Relations and Communication Strategy and Vice-President of the European Commission . Wallström came under fire when it became known that attempts were being made under her aegis to financially promote positive reporting about the EU in order to improve the EU's image.

Sexual violence against women

From February 2, 2010 to June 2012, Wallström was the UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflicts.

In the course of the public debate about the suspected abuse case Harvey Weinstein in October 2017, she announced that she had been sexually harassed at a formal dinner by a high-ranking politician at the highest European level. It was about being grabbed, about a hand on her thigh, as she published in her autobiography in 2014. She called for effective action against sexual violence and participated in the Twitter movement under hashtag #MeToo .

Foreign Minister

In August 2014 she returned to Swedish politics and was part of Stefan Löfven's campaign team . On October 3, 2014, she became Foreign Minister in the Löfven I government . As the longest serving minister, she was also Deputy Prime Minister. She also initially remained foreign minister in the Löfven II government , which took office in January 2019. On September 6, 2019, she announced her resignation for personal reasons. During a government reshuffle on September 10, 2019, she was replaced by the previous Minister of Commerce, Ann Linde .

Wallström coined the term “ feminist foreign policy” and announced that he would work for women, peace and security.

In her function as Foreign Minister, she implemented the recognition of the State of Palestine by Sweden. Official recognition took place on October 30, 2014.

She saw the causes of the terrorist attacks on November 13, 2015 in Paris by the Islamic State in the Middle East conflict and the situation of the Palestinians . Israel then called the Swedish ambassador. On January 12, 2016, Wallström asked the Swedish parliament to "thoroughly investigate" the legality of the killing of alleged Palestinian bombers during the recent wave of violence. 23 Israelis and one US citizen were murdered and numerous injured, while around 150 Palestinians were killed in acts of terrorism or clashes with Israeli security forces. The next day, Wallström was declared an undesirable person by the Israeli government .

As Foreign Minister, Wallström campaigned for a Swedish place on the United Nations Security Council . The Swedish government had already expressed its interest in 2005, but the bourgeois government under Fredrik Reinfeldt had not continued the efforts. In the vote in June 2016, Sweden prevailed against the Netherlands and Italy and was elected to the Security Council for 2017 and 2018.

Wallström continued to advocate a nuclear weapon ban . In 2017, Sweden approved the Nuclear Weapons Prohibition Treaty in the United Nations General Assembly . However, Wallström's announcement that he would look benevolently into ratification of the treaty met with criticism both domestically and within NATO. An expert appointed by the government advised against ratification of the treaty in January 2019. In July 2019, Wallström finally announced that Sweden would not sign the contract.

Observers characterized Margot Wallström's foreign policy as a link with the time of the Social Democratic Prime Minister Olof Palme . Their idealism and activism have often led to controversy. Commentator Mats Knutson described that Wallström found it difficult to combine her idealism with realistic government policy, for example in the case of the failed nuclear weapons agreement. Membership in the UN Security Council was a great success of her term in office.

Private

Wallström has been married to Håkan Olsson since 1984 and has three sons, one of whom died in infancy. She lives on Hammarö .

literature

Web links

Commons : Margot Wallström  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dagens Nyheter, Margot Wallström är tillbaka i partitoppen , April 22, 2015 (Swedish)
  2. ↑ The EU buys reporting FAZ, September 30, 2008, accessed on October 14, 2014.
  3. ↑ Secretary-General Appoints Margot Wallström of Sweden as Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict (English), UNO
  4. ↑ Interview with Zainab Hawa Bangura (French), UNO, February 25, 2013
  5. ^ Margot Wallström: Sweden's Foreign Minister accuses EU politicians of sexual harassment. In: Zeit Online. October 19, 2017. Retrieved October 20, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Regeringsformen, Chapter 6, § 10 (Swedish).
  7. ↑ Sweden's new government. Retrieved January 23, 2019 .
  8. ^ Hans Olsson: Margot Wallström slutar som utrikesminister - av familiära skäl. Dagens Nyheter , September 6, 2019, accessed September 11, 2019 (Swedish).
  9. ↑ Här är de nya ministrarna. SVT Nyheter , September 10, 2019, accessed September 11, 2019 (Swedish).
  10. ↑ Robert Egnell: Feministisk utrikespolitik i teori och practice . In: Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift . tape 118 , no. 4 , 2016 ( journals.lub.lu.se [PDF; 1.1 MB ; accessed on September 11, 2019]).
  11. ^ Lova Olsson: Wallström: Vi ska ha en feministisk utrikespolitik. Sveriges Radio , October 3, 2014, accessed September 11, 2019 (Swedish).
  12. ↑ Recognition of Palestine in a storm of criticism, Radio Sweden, October 6, 2014
  13. ↑ Sweden wants to recognize Palestine as a state tagesanzeiger.ch, October 3, 2014
  14. ↑ Sweden recognizes the state of Palestine on tagesschau.de, October 30, 2014
  15. ↑ Times of Israel: Israel slams Sweden for invoking Palestinian plight while discussing Paris attacks . November 16, 2015. Retrieved November 16, 2015.
  16. ^ Diplomatic scandal with Israel. Swedish Foreign Minister undesirable. tagesschau.de, January 13, 2016, accessed on January 13, 2016 .
  17. ↑ Lena Mellin: Margot Wallström slåss för en plats i FN: s säkerhetsråd. June 21, 2016, accessed September 11, 2019 (Swedish).
  18. ↑ Anna Andersson, Staffan Dickson and Katarina Andersson: Sverige invalt i FN: s säkerhetsråd. June 28, 2016, Retrieved September 11, 2019 (Swedish).
  19. ^ Wallström: En värld fri från kärnvapen är möjlig. Svenska Dagbladet , August 25, 2017, accessed September 11, 2019 (Swedish).
  20. ↑ Margot Wallström varnar NATO. SVT Nyheter , January 1, 2018, accessed September 11, 2019 (Swedish).
  21. ^ Wallström: Sverige kommer inte att skriva under FN-förbud mot kärnvapen. SVT Nyheter , July 12, 2019, accessed September 11, 2019 (Swedish).
  22. ↑ a b c Mats Knutson: https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/wallstroms-tid-som-utrikesminister-har-kantats-av-kontroverser. SVT Nyheter , September 6, 2019, accessed September 11, 2019 (Swedish).
  23. ^ Robert Sundberg: Sista med Palmes politics. Sydöstran, September 8, 2019, accessed September 11, 2019 (Swedish).
  24. ↑ Margot Wallström arv av felaktiga val. Världen idag, September 10, 2019, accessed on September 11, 2019 (Swedish).
personal data
SURNAME Wallström, Margot
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Kåge