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  Anna Lindh | eu2001.se
Anna Lindh has lost count of the number of hours she has been working a week and how many days she has spent travelling.
Anna Lindh agrees but says that she can't take all the credit for this herself.
In the immediate future, Anna Lindh will have a period of getting back to normal, when she will be able to start dealing with her "new/old" job as foreign minister for a few weeks, at a calmer pace.
www.eu2001.se /static/eng/docs/annalindh.asp   (1076 words)

  
 Obituary: Anna Lindh | Obituaries | Guardian Unlimited
Lindh managed to combine a casual style with a sharp intellect, and knew when to apply the one or the other.
Lately, Lindh had been a very outspoken, not to say undiplomatic, critic of Silvio Berlusconi's Italy, saying that it was not fit to run the EU presidency at a time when a new constitution is to be negotiated.
Lindh was born in Stockholm, the daughter of the artist Staffan Lindh and Nancy Lindh, a teacher.
www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,3604,1040423,00.html   (880 words)

  
 Mossad Assassinates Sweden's Anna Lindh
Foreign Minister Anna Lindh was an outspoken human rights advocate who was widely believed to be Sweden's next prime minister.
The petite Lindh lifted both arms and held out her shoulder bag in front of her body to defend herself, but the attack was too violent to resist.
If Anna Lindh was Prime Minister of Sweden, she would have never committed troops to Iraq.
judicial-inc.biz /Anna_Lindh.htm   (259 words)

  
  Anna Lindh-saken / Aftenposten.no
To ganger bønnfalt familiens advokat i retten i går drapsdømte Mijailo Mijailovic om et svar på hvorfor han angrep Anna Lindh (bildet).
Mannen som drepte Sveriges utenriksminister Anna Lindh, holdes helt isolert i fengselet fordi politiet frykter for hans sikkerhet.
Anna Lindhs død er en tragedie for hennes familie, venner og for det politiske miljø der hun spilte en så sentral og viktig rolle, skriver Aftenposten på lederplass i dag.
www.aftenposten.no /nyheter/uriks/annalindh   (602 words)

  
  Anna Lindh information - Search.com
Anna Lindh was generally seen as one of the prime candidates to succeed Göran Persson as President of the Social Democrats and Prime Minister of Sweden.
Anna Lindh's gravestone at Katarina kyrka in Stockholm.
Anna Lindh's grave is in the cemetery of the nearby Katarina kyrka.
www.search.com /reference/Anna_Lindh   (1575 words)

  
  Anna Lindh - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Anna Lindh was generally seen as one of the prime candidates to succeed Göran Persson as President of the Social Democrats and Prime Minister of Sweden.
Anna Lindh's gravestone at Katarina kyrka in Stockholm.
Anna Lindh's grave is in the cemetery of the nearby Katarina kyrka.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Anna_Lindh   (1754 words)

  
 Anna Lindh: the price of openness Olle Svenning - openDemocracy   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Anna Lindh, the Swedish foreign minister, had conducted a very strong campaign for a ‘yes’ vote in advance of the country’s referendum on joining the euro on 14 September, 2003.
Anna Lindh was chairman of the Socialist youth movement for eight years while she was a student of law.
Anna Lindh knew that if she became prime minister her private life would be exposed to the public, and the media would cover every detail of her life.
www.opendemocracy.net /themes/article-10-1484.jsp   (1147 words)

  
  Anna Lindh Information   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Anna Lindh was generally seen as one of the prime candidates to succeed Göran Persson as President of the Social Democrats and Prime Minister of Sweden.
Anna Lindh's gravestone at Katarina kyrka in Stockholm.
Anna Lindh's grave is in the cemetery of the nearby Katarina kyrka.
www.bookrags.com /wiki/Anna_Lindh   (1553 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Anna Lindh Memorial Fund   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Anna Lindh Memorial Fund is a memorial fund started to commemorate the Swedish politician Anna Lindh, who was assassinated in 2003.
Anna Lindh (June 19, 1957 - September 11, 2003) was a Swedish politician, Minister for the Environment (1994-1998) and Minister for Foreign Affairs in the Swedish Government, from 1998 until her death.
Anna Lindh was generally seen as the prime candidate to succeed Göran Persson as Chairman of the Social Democrats, and as Prime Minister of Sweden.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Anna-Lindh-Memorial-Fund   (211 words)

  
 Anna Lindh - Wikipedia Mirror
Lindh was born in Enskede, a southeastern suburb of Stockholm, but grew up outside Enköping, where she became involved in politics at the age of twelve.
Image:Anna Lindh memorial.jpg Anna Lindh was an outspoken campaigner for Sweden to join the euro in the referendum held on Sunday, September 14.
Image:Anna Lindhs gravsten (gabbe).jpg A number of commemorative gatherings were held for Anna Lindh throughout Sweden, on September 12–September 13.
www.wiki-mirror.be /index.php/Anna_Lindh   (1554 words)

  
 Defiant Anna Lindh would not hear of bodyguards
Lindh was not foolhardy and she became more conscious of safety over the years.
Lindh become foreign minister in 1998, an appointment that catapulted her onto the world arena and made her one of Sweden's most-exposed politicians.
Lindh was a great defender of Swedish neutrality under which her country only sends peace-keeping forces to the world's hot spots.
www.spacewar.com /2003/030912181243.2tve54yf.html   (584 words)

  
 Anna Lindh | Obituaries | News | Telegraph
Anna Lindh, the Swedish foreign minister who was murdered on Wednesday aged 46, was one of the country's most popular politicians, widely tipped as a future Prime Minister.
Anna Lindh made her name on the international stage as the European Union's chief envoy during the Swedish presidency in 2001, when she impressed world leaders with her forthright stance on abuses of human rights and her blunt criticism of other countries.
Anna Lindh was said to be a "woman without enemies" and her keen mind and cheerful, if somewhat earnest, manner won her many friends on the international stage.
www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/09/12/db1201.xml&sSheet=/portal/2003/09/12/ixportal.html   (885 words)

  
 Anna Lindh - Wikipedia, den fria encyklopedin
Anna Lindh föddes i Enskede i södra Stockholm, som dotter till konstnären Staffan Lindh och småskolläraren Nancy Westman.
Anna Lindhs första stora uppgift som utrikesminister blev att engagera sig i konflikten mellan Kosovos befrielsearmé och Serbiens militärmakt.
Anna Lindh var under sommaren och sensommaren 2003 starkt engagerad i valkampanjen inför folkomröstningen om införande av euron som valuta i Sverige, som skulle hållas söndagen den 14 september 2003.
sv.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anna_Lindh   (884 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Obituaries / Anna Lindh, 46; minister backed euro, human rights
Lindh: "She had a special energy, integrity, and compassion, and she spent a great deal of her time focusing her efforts on global humanitarian issues.
Lindh, one of the Scandinavian country's most popular politicians, was a top member of the ruling Social Democratic Party.
Lindh became a lawyer with a reputation for preserving the environment.
www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2003/09/12/anna_lindh_46_minister_backed_euro_human_rights   (491 words)

  
 Global - Volvo Group : our opinion - Anna Lindh   (Site not responding. Last check: )
I personally knew Anna Lindh for many years and I have had numerous contacts with her, both in her capacity as Sweden's Foreign Minister and as a politician.
Anna Lindh was immensely admired and respected outside Sweden and she was a Swedish politician who really shone on the international scene, something that I came to realize during my journeys abroad.
As a politician, Anna Lindh had a rare capability of listening, understanding and grasping the different perspectives of people from all walks of life.
www.volvo.com /group/global/en-gb/newsmedia/groupopinion/Anna_Lindh.htm   (168 words)

  
 Did Mossad Assassinate Anna Lindh?
The death of Lindh and the late UN representative in Baghdad, Sergio Vieira de Mello, represents the loss of “two voices who called with determination for salvaging the UN’s role in Iraq and for implementing its resolutions in Palestine,” Bouthaina Shaaban, a minister in the new Syrian government, wrote in The Daily Star (Lebanon).
Lindh was initially reported to be serious condition but her injuries were said not to be “life-threatening” as she underwent six hours of surgery at the Karolinska Hospital.
Lindh’s principled and unequivocal position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was like that of the late Swedish prime minister Olof Palme, who was assassinated in Stockholm in 1986, and Count Folke Bernadotte, the United Nation’s Mediator on Palestine, who was brutally murdered by a Zionist terror gang near Jerusalem in 1948.
www.bintjbeil.com /articles/2003/en/0926_bollyn.html   (2411 words)

  
 NEF - Anna Lindh Programme on Conflict Prevention   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Anna Lindh Programme on Conflict Prevention, managed by the Madariaga European Foundation, was launched following the horrific assassination of Anna Lindh on 11 September 2003.
Anna Lindh was the Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs, and a passionate advocate of conflict prevention.
Anna Lindh was one of the greatest promoters of a conflict prevention policy and worked during her whole career to make this an integral part of the EU's external policy, helping to define Europe stand on the international sphere.
www.nefic.org /annalindh.htm   (1130 words)

  
 Harvard Gazette: Kennedy School establishes Anna Lindh Professorship
Lindh became president of her Social Democratic youth club at the age of 12, becoming a local councilor at 20.
From 1991 to 1994, Lindh served as deputy mayor of Stockholm, and then as Sweden's minister for the environment from 1994 to 1998.
The popular Lindh was generally seen as one of the prime candidates to succeed Göran Persson as chairman of the Social Democratic Party and prime minister of Sweden.
www.hno.harvard.edu /gazette/2004/09.23/12-ksgprof.html   (310 words)

  
 Scotsman.com News - Anna Lindh murder   (Site not responding. Last check: )
THE confessed killer of Anna Lindh, the Swedish foreign minister, had his life jail sentence confirmed by the country's Supreme Court yesterday, after he appealed for leniency saying he was mentally ill when he stabbed her.
A SWEDISH appeals court overturned a life prison sentence for the convicted killer of the foreign minister, Anna Lindh, ruling yesterday that Mijailo Mijailovic needed psychiatric treatment because he was "a traumatised person with significant...
THE self-confessed killer of Anna Lindh, the Swedish foreign minister, was sentenced to life in...
news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=1003   (441 words)

  
 Swedish Court Throws Out Killer's Sentence (Anna Lindh) | The Agonist
Mijailovic admitted stabbing Lindh and was convicted of murder in March by a lower court that sentenced him to life in prison.
Lindh, 46, was stabbed in a department store by Mijailo Mijailovic, 25, a man with a history of psychiatric problems.
The monument to Lindh - a three-metre (10-foot) high rectangular pillar consisting of eight transparent sheets of green glass - was unveiled by Lindh's widower Bo Holmberg and the mayor of Stockholm, Annika Billstroem.
scoop.agonist.org /story/2004/7/8/93437/70935   (1232 words)

  
 Remember Anna Lindh Mats Engström - openDemocracy   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Anna Lindh continued to criticise Turkey, but she was also crystal clear that it should be admitted to the EU once the political criteria were fulfilled.
Anna Lindh gradually won the respect of her colleagues in the Council.
Anna Lindh became very popular in Sweden, and played a prominent role in the domestic debate on European affairs, including in the euro referendum campaign this year.
www.opendemocracy.net /debates/article-3-51-1504.jsp   (783 words)

  
 Swedish Court Throws Out Killer's Sentence (Anna Lindh) | The Agonist
Mijailovic admitted stabbing Lindh and was convicted of murder in March by a lower court that sentenced him to life in prison.
Lindh, 46, was stabbed in a department store by Mijailo Mijailovic, 25, a man with a history of psychiatric problems.
The monument to Lindh - a three-metre (10-foot) high rectangular pillar consisting of eight transparent sheets of green glass - was unveiled by Lindh's widower Bo Holmberg and the mayor of Stockholm, Annika Billstroem.
www.agonist.org:81 /story/2004/7/8/93437/70935   (1232 words)

  
 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Ylva Anna Maria Lindh (19 June 1957 – 11 September 2003) was a Swedish Social Democratic politician who served as Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1998 until her assassination in 2003.
Lindh was born in Enskede, a southeastern suburb of Stockholm, but grew up in Grillby, just outside of Enköping, where she became involved in politics at the age of twelve.
The meeting room number 50.4 on the fifth floor of the Justus Lipsius European Council building in Brussels was named Anna Lindh in her honour.
www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Anna_Lindh   (1612 words)

  
 Harvard Gazette: Kennedy School establishes Anna Lindh Professorship
Lindh became president of her Social Democratic youth club at the age of 12, becoming a local councilor at 20.
From 1991 to 1994, Lindh served as deputy mayor of Stockholm, and then as Sweden's minister for the environment from 1994 to 1998.
The popular Lindh was generally seen as one of the prime candidates to succeed Göran Persson as chairman of the Social Democratic Party and prime minister of Sweden.
www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2004/09.23/12-ksgprof.html   (310 words)

  
 CNN.com - Swedes rally for Anna Lindh - Sep. 12, 2003
Lindh, 46, was stabbed several times inside an upmarket Stockholm department store as she shopped Wednesday.
Lindh, 46, one of Sweden's most popular politicians tipped as a successor to Persson, led the "Yes" campaign with him on joining the European Union's single currency but most polls point to a "No" result.
Lindh did not have a bodyguard with her at the time of the attack.
www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/europe/09/12/sweden.lindh.protest   (581 words)

  
 Chechenya mourns the death of Anna Lindh   (Site not responding. Last check: )
We are shocked and saddened by the death of the Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh.
Anna Lindh was one of the most devoted European politicians to the issue of human rights around the world.
Today, Chechnya mourns the death of Anna Lindh, one of the few European politicians that had refused to turn a blind eye on the Chechen suffering.
www.unpo.org /article.php?id=289   (207 words)

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