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Swedish government wants to strengthen ties with American tech giants (omni.se)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by DreasNil@feddit.nu to c/buyfromeu@feddit.org

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"The Swedish government wants to strengthen ties with US tech giants, despite the Trump administration's potential influence over these companies. This is according to Minister for Public Administration Erik Slottner (KD) in Ny Teknik. "What is happening in the US is rather proof that we need to have a strong relationship with these tech companies – perhaps even stronger than we have today. Europe is an important market for them, and they are very keen to have a good relationship with us." He mentions Google, for example, as a partner he wants to continue to have on his digitalization council."

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[–] cabbage@piefed.social 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Context for those not keeping up with Sweden: It's run by idiots at the moment, as the billionaire coalition did really well at the previous election.

This guy is a Christan Democrat (KD). His party is in government alongside the "Moderates" and the "Liberals", which is both liberal conservative parties running on platforms of economic liberalism and lower taxes. They're in power because of the Swedish Democrats, aka the right wing lunatics, who rode on a wave of xenophobia last election and gained more than 20% of the vote.

So yeah, nothing surprising about this.

Next election in Sweden is in September. Hopefully things will improve then. The Swedish Democrats are still polling at over 20% and it is not looking particularly promising at the moment.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Social Democrats being the largest party by vote but still not in majority when it comes to ruling because of alliances between idiot parties. Pretty sad.

[–] tutter@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago

Happened in Denmark as well, almost identically. Hoping it was the last deathspasms of the middle-class petite bourgeois entitlement politics. And here's to hoping it dies quietly instead of wandering out into more violent fascistoid ideological landscapes.

[–] starlinguk@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Same thing happened (and is still happening) in the Netherlands and Germany.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Quite annoying innit