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The Government of the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish: Konungariket Sveriges regering) is the national cabinet of Sweden, and the country's executive authority.. The Government consists of the Prime Minister—appointed and dismissed by the Speaker of the Riksdag—and other cabinet ministers (Swedish: Statsråd), appointed and dismissed at the sole discretion of the Prime Minister.
Sweden is also very active in international peace efforts, especially through the United Nations, and in support to the Third World. [citation needed] In 1995 Sweden, together with Finland and Austria, joined the European Union which extended the number of member countries from 12 to 15. Membership and its issues are among the most important ...
1672-1697 : King Charles XI of Sweden; 1697-1697 : Privy Council, government under the minority of the monarch; 1697-1718 : King Charles XII of Sweden; 1718-1738 : Chancellery President Arvid Horn, leader of a Cap Party government; 1738-1765 : Parliamentary rule with a Hat Party government; 1765-1769 : Parliamentary rule with a Cap Party government
In most parliamentary democracies, the head of state commissions a politician to form a government. Under the new Instrument of Government [12] (one of the four fundamental laws of the Constitution) enacted in 1974, that task was removed from the Monarch of Sweden and given to the Speaker of the Riksdag. To make changes to the Constitution ...
The name for Sweden is generally agreed to derive from the Proto-Indo-European root *s(w)e, meaning "one's own", referring to one's own tribe from the tribal period. [16] [17] [18] The native Swedish name, Sverige (a compound of the words Svea and rike, first recorded in the cognate Swēorice in Beowulf), [19] translates as "realm of the Swedes", which excluded the Geats in Götaland.
This category focuses on the work of national and local governments in Sweden. For other aspects of the political process in Sweden see Category:Politics of Sweden . Subcategories
This is because of its formal separation from the state but its lasting ties with official Sweden, most notably the Riksdag and the monarch. The Church of Sweden is also the only religious organization regulated by its own law, the Church of Sweden Act, which stipulates that the Church of Sweden has to be a democratic, Lutheran, Folk church.
Sweden–NATO relations; China–Sweden relations; Denmark–Sweden relations; Finland–Sweden relations; France–Sweden relations; Germany–Sweden relations; Italy–Sweden relations; Norway–Sweden relations; Russia–Sweden relations; Sweden–Turkey relations; Sweden–United Kingdom relations; Sweden–United States relations