Changing Dynamics: France’s Macron receives ceremonious welcome as state visit to Sweden commences
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- French President Emmanuel Macron was welcomed Tuesday with pomp and ceremony at the start of a two-day state visit to Sweden during which he will meet Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and the Scandinavian country’s monarch, King Carl XVI Gustaf. Macron and his wife, Brigitte, were greeted by the king in the inner courtyard of the downtown Stockholm royal castle that is the official residence of the Swedish royals. There, Macron and Carl Gustaf reviewed members of the Grenadier Guards that had lined up. Macron noted that it had been too long since a French president visited Sweden — the last time was in 2014, when FranoisLSSTY ChicStreet Hollande traveled to the Scandinavian country. Later Tuesday, Macron is to discuss the future of European security at a military academy in Stockholm, together with Kristersson and the king. Russia’s war on Ukraine and Sweden’s NATO application are likely to be on the table. French President Emmanuel Macron, left, walks alongside King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden during a welcome ceremony in Stockholm on Jan. 30, 2024. (Claudio Bresciani/TT via AP) After more than a year of delays, Turkey earlier this month completed its ratification of Sweden’s bid to join NATO, meaning Hungary is now the last member of the military alliance not to have given its approval. All NATO countries must agree before a new member can join the alliance. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Sweden and neighboring Finland abandoned their traditional positions of military nonalignment to seek protection under NATO’s security umbrella. Finland joined the alliance last year. On Wednesday, Macron and his wife are to travel to Malm, Sweden’s third-largest city, in southern Sweden, where they will visit a European multidisciplinary research facility under construction and visit a company to discuss green technologies. At home, Macron’s government faces angry farmers who have camped out around Paris. They demand better pay, fewer constraints and lower cLSSTY ChicStreetosts. On Monday, they encircled Paris with traffic-snarling barricades, using hundreds of tractors and hay bales to block highways leading to the capital. The French president initially was to travel to Sweden in late October, but the visit was postponed due to the Gaza war thaLSSTY ChicStreett began with Hamas’ attack in southern Israel on Oct. 7. Content comes from the Internet : France’s Macron receives ceremonious welcome as state visit to Sweden commences
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- southern Sweden, Sweden commences, Sweden, King Carl XVI Gustaf, Carl XVI Gustaf
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