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New Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billström (foreground): »Labels tend to obscure the content«
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Sweden 's new right - wing government is overturning the concept of
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feminist foreign policy
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Foreign Minister Tobias Billström of the conservative Party of Moderates told the TT news agency on Tuesday:
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Gender equality is a fundamental value in Sweden and also a fundamental value for this government.
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The expression
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feminist foreign policy
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will be deleted,
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because labels tend to obscure the content
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The term
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feminist foreign policy
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was coined by the then department head Margot Wallström in 2014.
Their policy was seen as
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an answer to the systematic discrimination and subordination that characterizes the everyday life of countless girls and women around the world
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Several countries had copied the concept, and the Greens in Germany also refer to it.
The new Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, party leader of the conservative moderates, presented his new cabinet on Tuesday, which consists of 13 men and eleven women.
The government of moderates, Christian Democrats and Liberals is tolerated by the far-right Sweden Democrats.
In his government statement, Kristersson prepared parliament for difficult times in view of the many crises.
"It's a serious situation that can get worse," he said on Tuesday.
His coalition of moderates, Christian Democrats and liberals, who wants to work closely with the right-wing Sweden Democrats, wants the country to be united: "I will form a government for everyone who lives here."
The left and right camps fought an extremely close race in September's parliamentary elections.
The conservative-right four-party bloc, including the right-wing populist Sweden Democrats, won 176 seats, while the left-wing camp led by former Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson won 173 seats.
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