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Mats Engström

Mats Engström

Mats Engström is editorial writer at the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet. He was special advisor and deputy state secretary to Anna Lindh from 1994-2001, and is author of Rebooting Europe: Digital Deliberation and European Democracy (Foreign Policy Centre, 2002). His website is here.

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Latvia’s crisis: the Swedish factor

Latvia’s financial meltdown raises questions of a neighbour: are you more regional power or friendly partner? Mats Engström, in Riga, reports.

Europe and terrorism: the wrong path

A strategy to counter terrorism that reinforces the exclusion of and discrimination against young Muslims won't work. An approach based on the establishment of trust and legitimacy is needed, says Mats Engström.

Europe's green power

The addition of a serious environmental dimension to the European Union's internal reform and soft-power diplomacy could yet make 2007 a year of vision, says Mats Engström.

We still love the Swedish model

Sweden's election turnaround is less of a shift to the right than it appears, says Mats Engström in Stockholm.

The fear haunting Europe

The secret meetings of Europe's political authorities are sanctioning public policies that feed racist sentiment, argues Mats Engström.

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