UK Only Article:
standard article
Issue:
Fight this war, not the last one
Fly Title:
Sweden and America
Rubric:
Star-struck enthusiasm for Barack Obama
Location:
STOCKHOLM
Main image:
A very welcome visitor
A very welcome visitor
LOOMING American military strikes in Syria and controversy about American internet spying could not dampen the Swedish government’s excitement over the visit of America’s president, Barack Obama, to Sweden on September 4th. “Happy to see the sun is shining as President Obama approaches Stockholm,” tweeted Carl Bildt, the foreign minister, shortly before Air Force One, the presidential plane, landed at the Arlanda airport near Stockholm.
The 24-hour stopover en route to a G20 summit in St Petersburg is Sweden’s first-ever bilateral visit by a sitting American president and a feather in the cap for Fredrik Reinfeldt, the prime minister, and his centre-right coalition. The Swedish media have been ...
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