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unusual facts about Swedish Government



Carta marina

The map was created in Rome by the Swedish ecclesiastic Olaus Magnus (1490–1557), who arrived on a diplomatic visit for the Swedish government and stayed on, likely because his brother Johannes Magnus became involved in a religious feud with King Gustav I of Sweden.

Eddie Meduza

Sometimes they were also politically oriented, many aimed against the Swedish Government in power at the time Swedish Moderaterna/Centern/Folkpartiet and Swedish Social Democrats (Conservativ resp. Labour-parties).

Gotland-class submarine

In 2004, the Swedish government received a request from the United States of America to lease HMS Gotland – Swedish-flagged, commanded and manned, for a duration of one year for use in anti-submarine warfare exercises.


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Ebbe Carlsson affair

The reason for this was supposedly that Palme had stopped the Iranians from acquiring the Swedish Air Defence Missile System RBS 70 and that the Swedish government had listed PKK as a terrorist organization.

The affair came to public knowledge on 1 June 1988, when the evening newspaper Expressen revealed that Ebbe Carlsson, a journalist and publisher and former secretary at the Swedish Government, was carrying out an independent and illegal investigation into the assassination of prime minister Olof Palme, secretly supported by the minister for justice Anna-Greta Leijon.

Förbifart Stockholm

According to The Local, the project was approved by the Swedish government in September 2009 and construction is expected to start in 2010 and take 8 years to complete.

Roland Adlerberth

Adlerberth was a co-worker at magazines such as Dast-Magazine, Jules Verne-Magasinet, and Häpna! He was also a member of the Swedish government's Cultural Council Committee for Magazines and Journals.

Stockholm-class corvette

In early 2009 the Swedish government decided that the two ships in the class was to join the EU-lead taskforce outside Somalia, where its would fight piracy.

Swedish East India Company

The reaction from the Swedish government was reluctant: the closing of the Ostend Company in 1731, based in Ostend in the Austrian Netherlands and closed down in 1731 following British pressure as part of the Treaty of Vienna boded ill for the Swedes' competition against the main powers, where trade and politics were so intimately associated.

WMDC

Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission, an organization funded by the Swedish government and led by Hans Blix