The prime ministers of the Nordic countries gathered on Iceland’s Västamannasaari. Sweden, which used to play a leading role, is now even quieter, ‘s Nordic correspondent Pirjo Auvinen estimates.
The prime ministers of the Nordic countries meet every summer, and now it was Iceland’s turn to be invited to hold the presidency of the Nordic Council of Ministers.
Prime minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir is the vivacious chairman of the Green Left, who you wouldn’t expect to be the first to run the government’s beautiful wooden villa in the center of Reykjavík.
An Icelandic colleague described Jakobsdóttir as a down-to-earth politician. On Sunday, the Prime Minister wore peach-colored sneakers.
The composition of Pohjola’s five prime ministers has changed by two within a year. The prime minister of Sweden changed From Magdalena Andersson to Ulf Kristersson. In Finland, the prime minister is Sanna Marini after Petteri Orpo.
Orpo had not been prime minister for a week before his trip to Iceland. Maybe that’s why Orpo started defending his government’s program at the prime minister’s official residence on Sunday, even though no one asked anything about it.
However, Orpo was the focus of the entire meeting and enthusiastic unlike the leader of his sister party from Sweden. Ulf Kristersson seemed so quiet that he felt as if he was being killed. At the same time, Sweden, the former number one country in the Nordic region, disappeared from the line of prime ministers.
There could be many reasons for Kristersson’s silence. It is certainly unheard of for Swedes that they have applied to a club where they don’t even think they will be accepted. It is certainly just as embarrassing to listen to how other countries are now trying to help Sweden’s NATO. A bit like trying to get a friend to the bar.
Sweden has its NATO papers in order and everyone else knows that, but Turk thinks they’re missing their watermark. And Hungary accompanies without any demands of its own.
Kristersson’s government’s support is decreasing, and not a single Swedish journalist traveled to Iceland after the prime minister.
Kristersson refused to give an interview to others, such as the Icelandic Broadcasting Company and , citing busy meetings. “With the fewest votes” left the impression of the Swedish Prime Minister.
Granted: The prime ministers of Finland and Sweden had to move in charismatic company in Iceland. of Denmark Mette Frederiksen it is predicted that the defense alliance will be the next Secretary General of NATO, and the Danish media remembered that it was also displayed in the Vestmanna Islands.
But the actual gestures of the big world were the special guest of the Icelandic meeting, the Prime Minister of Canada With Justin Trudeau. Flashings on the ship’s shore went like in the big world. And he doesn’t seem to move anywhere without being followed by a small busload of journalists.
But Trudeau also talked about it. Cooperation in the Arctic regions is now rarely clear, as no country wants to have anything to do with Russia.
But geographically, Russia is such a large arctic area that without it the projects are falling short. A big problem that remained unsolved even in Vestamannasaari.