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Environment Minister at 26 – Romina is the new Greta

Greta Thunberg wants to work more in the background for climate protection in the future.

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Environment Minister at 26 – Romina is the new Greta

Greta Thunberg wants to work more in the background for climate protection in the future. The 19-year-old Swedish climate activist told the magazine "Brigitte Be Green" that she still does a lot, but she doesn't want to be in the media that much anymore. "It's time to pass the mic," Thunberg said.

Fortunately, another young Swede is already ready to take over this microphone. The new conservative prime minister, Ulf Kristersson, has just appointed 26-year-old Romina Pourmokhtari as climate and environment minister. She is the youngest cabinet member Sweden has ever had. Pourmokhtari's father came to Sweden from Iran. This flight experience sparked her interest in politics early on, she says. When it comes to climate policy, what is needed now is "a minister who understands the importance of these issues," said Pourmokhtari, who made a name for herself as leader of the Swedish Young Liberals.

Whatever else one may say about the 13 male and female ministers in Kristersson's cabinet, the appointment of a young woman with Iranian roots as climate minister is a coup that cleverly undermines all the ideas that critics in particular have of the new conservative government in Stockholm , which can be tolerated by the right-wing Sweden Democrats.

And while we're on the subject of Iran: The new Conservative Foreign Minister Tobias Billström has deleted the term "feminist foreign policy", which was coined in 2014 by the then Social Democratic department head Margot Wallström and which was also adopted in other countries, including by Annalena Baerbock .

Various publications on the subject have already been removed from the Swedish Foreign Ministry's website. Billström emphasizes that gender equality is a fundamental value in Sweden, he is only interested in the label of "feminist foreign policy". Such labels always have a tendency to "obscure the content".

And not only the content, but also the heads. Because what a "feminist foreign policy" can encompass in practice was demonstrated in 2017 by the Swedish Trade Minister Ann Linde from the Social Democrats, when she traveled to Iran at the head of a delegation: In Tehran she wore a headscarf - as required by Islamic law prescribe republic.

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