Swedish minister: 'EU needs to step up on defence'

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In this week’s episode Sweden’s Minister for EU Affairs Jessica Rosencrantz speaks with The Local’s publisher James Savage.

James caught up with the minister on Thursday the 15th of January, a day after Danish and Greenlandic officials attended a meeting at the White House over the future of the Arctic island that US President Donald Trump said the United States wants to acquire.

In the days following this interview Trump announced that the US was planning to impose additional tariffs on eight European countries that sent military personnel to Greenland on Denmark’s request.

Sweden is one of the countries affected and the Swedish prime minister Ulf Kristersson reacted by saying that Europe would not let itself be blackmailed.

Jessica Rosencrantz also speaks in the interview about what the EU can do to bolster its own defensive capability.

And do Sweden’s plans to tighten citizenship requirements make it harder to compete for highly skilled workers with other EU countries.

Tune in to this week's episode for the full interview with Jessica Rosencrantz.

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