"If we are to boost results in Swedish schools we need clearer and earlier knowledge requirements, to ensure that students can receive the support they need."This was the comment of Minister for Education Jan Björklund on the bill Tydligare mål och kunskapskrav - nya läroplaner för skolan (Clearer goals and knowledge requirements - new school curricula) (Government Bill 2008/09:87), which the Government presented to the Riksdag today.
10 December 2008
Ministry of Education and Research
The Government has taken a decision to establish a Partnership Programme to deepen cooperation with the new EU Member States in development assistance to Eastern Europe. The Partnership Programme is to harmonise procedures and develop new, creative methods for common development assistance initiatives.
11 December 2008
Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Today the Government will present measures to meet the challenges facing the Swedish automotive industry. These will take the form of increased investment in research and development and state credit guarantees for raising loans in the European Investment Bank.
Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and Communications,
11 December 2008
On 11-12 December, Russia's minister for industry and energy Viktor Christenko is to visit Sweden together with a delegation of 30 people to take part in the Swedish-Russian steering committee meeting.
11 December 2008
Ministry for Foreign Affairs
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It is a global document that has had enormous impact and that still remains surprisingly modern.
Ministry for Foreign Affairs 10 December 2008
Gunilla Carlsson, Minister for International Development Cooperation
"If we are to boost results in Swedish schools we need clearer and earlier knowledge requirements, to ensure that students can receive the support they need."This was the comment of Minister for Education Jan Björklund on the bill Tydligare mål och kunskapskrav - nya läroplaner för skolan (Clearer goals and knowledge requirements - new school curricula) (Government Bill 2008/09:87), which the Government presented to the Riksdag today.
10 December 2008
Ministry of Education and Research
"Sixty years ago today, the UN General Assembly adopted the Genocide Convention against the grim backdrop of the Holocaust. The Genocide Convention itself represents a very important milestone in preventing genocide. The Member States obligated themselves to prevent and punish the crime of genocide. Unfortunately, we have still been forced to admit that adoption of the Convention in itself has proved insufficient to prevent the acts of genocide committed after 1948. The importance of taking action to prevent genocide is thus just as timely today as it was sixty years ago," says Mr Bildt.
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Today marks the sixtieth anniversary of the adoption and announcement by the United Nations General Assembly of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on 10 December 1948. The Government's commemoration of the Universal Declaration will take place in the Chamber of the Riksdag on 10 December. Minister for Foreign Affairs Carl Bildt will be present.
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