Ann Linde

Ann Christin Linde, (born 4 December 1961 in Helsingborg) is a Swedish politician for the Social democrat party. Since 25 May 2016 she is the Minister for European Union Affairs and Trade for Löfven Cabinet.[1] Prior to that she served as State Secretary for the Ministry of Home Affairs.[2] She worked as Secretary of State with the Interior Minister Anders Ygeman at the Ministry of Justice . Linde was 2013-2014 head of the International Department of the European Socialist Party in Brussels, an umbrella organization for all social-democratic parties in the EU. She has previously been an international secretary at the Social Democratic Party in Sweden from 2000 to 2013. During the same period she was on the board of Olof Palmes International Center, the last time as vice-chairman. Throughout the 1990s, she worked in government offices, including the Ministry Secretary of Civil Affairs and the political advisor of the EU and Trade Minister Mats Hellström of Foreign Affairs and of Defense Minister Bjorn von Sydow on Ministry of Defense .

Being State Secretary at the Ministry of Justice, she was one of the first politicians in the Government Offices who received information from the Security Department that, due to purchases the Transport Agency made available confidential information for foreign collaborators who were not security-checked. When it came to the media in the summer of 2017, it led to rigid criticism from the bourgeois opposition and the Swedish Democrats, as well as to new tasks and disclosures, finally a government construction.[3]

Since 1989, Ann Linde has been married to Mats Eriksson.[4] She has two children.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Ann Linde, S, är ny EU- och handelsminister". DN.SE. 25 May 2016. Retrieved 28 May 2016.
  2. ↑ "Statssekreterare blir EU-minister". VLT. Retrieved 28 May 2016.
  3. ↑ "Transport Agency's IT business: This has happened". Retrieved 30 Dec 2017.
  4. 1 2 "The 1st Politician of the Year". Retrieved 30 Dec 2017.



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