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Margot Wallström
Margot Elisabeth Wallström is a Swedish politician of the Swedish Social Democratic Party who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden and Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2014 to 2019 and Minister for Nordic Cooperation from 2016 to 2019.
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Born 28 September 1954 · Q237522
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2016· 2 entries
Career landmark: Minister for Nordic Cooperation (2016–2019).
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2015· 1 entry
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2014· 3 entries
Awarded Commander of the Legion of Honour (2014).
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Career landmark: Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden (2014–2019).
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Career landmark: Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden (2014–2019).
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2012· 1 entry
Awarded Årets väckarklocka (2012).
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2010· 3 entries
Awarded Honorary doctorate of Umeå University (2010).
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Aftonbladet: Margot Wallström får toppjobb inom FN
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Career landmark: Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict (2010–2012).
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2009· 1 entry
Awarded Monismanien Prize (2009).
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2008· 1 entry
Awarded Royal Order of the Seraphim (2008).
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2006· 1 entry
Wallström presented her a plan to transform the EU's Europe by Satellite (EbS) video-broadcast service into an EU news agency; the plan was scrapped after press organizations complained that it would undermine the work o
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2005· 1 entry
Wallström, in her capacity as EU Commissioner responsible for communications, came under pressure to justify her handling of a controversial speech that linked opposition to European integration with Nazi genocide, after
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2004· 4 entries
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Approved the importation of a genetically modified corn from the United States for animal feed after a six-year moratorium, arguing in a statement that the corn produced by biotechnology company Monsanto, known as NK
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Career landmark: vice-president of the European Commission (2004–2010).
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Wallström became the first member of the European Commission to operate a blog
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2001· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of Chalmers University of Technology (2001).
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– Honorary doctor at Chalmers University, Sweden
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1999· 1 entry
Career landmark: European Commissioner for the Environment (1999–2004).
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1996· 1 entry
Career landmark: Minister for Social Affairs (1996–1998).
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1994· 1 entry
Career landmark: Minister for Culture of Sweden (1994–1996).
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1988· 3 entries
Career landmark: Minister for Church Affairs (1988–1991).
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Career landmark: Minister for Consumer Affairs (1988–1991).
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Career landmark: Minister of Youth Affairs (1988–1991).
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1984· 1 entry
Wallström has been married to her husband, Håkan, since 1984.
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1982· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of the Swedish Riksdag (1982–1985).
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Career landmark: member of the Swedish Riksdag (1982–1982).
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1979· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the Swedish Riksdag (1979–1982).
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1973· 1 entry
Started her career as a banking clerk at the Alfa Savings bank in Karlstad
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1954· 1 entry
Born 1954-09-28.
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