Kjell Olof Feldt was the Swedish Finance minister for many years. Later in his life he - among other things - bravely posed when we made a series of summer-articles for the newspaper “Expressen”. His wife Birgitta von Otter happily talked him into wearing the snazzy swim-trunks. He passed away January 8,l 2025.
Bo Lundgren was Tax and deputy Finance minister 1991-1994 in Sweden. My assignment was to, somehow, illustrate the fact that Sweden’s fiscal management was good - and with a little help from the physically adept minister it succeeded. I think that the hardest thing for the minister, was to not crack a smile.
The Swedish Prime minister meets the Auschwitz survivor Hédi Fried. During the meeting he promised her to never cooperate with the Swedish Democrats - a party with Neo-Nazi roots. He later claimed this was a misunderstanding and that the promise was made as a possible leader of an Alliance of parties - not as the leader of his own, Moderaterna. However, this had earlier been contradicted - by his own words in several interviews.
The visual anatomy of new government in Sweden. Led by Ulf Kristersson.
The visual anatomy of new government in Sweden. Led by Stefan Löfven.