Sverige i fokus · Chapter 11
Sverige och omvärlden
Chapter study guide · 53 practice questions
01 · Chapter study guide
Place Sweden in the wider world through Nordic cooperation, the European Union, the United Nations and NATO. These organisations have different members, purposes and ways of making decisions. The chapter also connects security policy with total defence.
Make a comparison as you read: which organisation is involved, what can it decide, and what remains a Swedish responsibility? Keep the Nordic Council separate from the Nordic Council of Ministers.
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Read or listen at UHR ↗A cooperation body for the Nordic parliaments. The Nordic Council consists of parliamentarians appointed by the Nordic parliaments. They discuss shared issues and make proposals to the governments.
The Nordic governments. The Nordic Council of Ministers is a body for cooperation between the Nordic governments. Ministers responsible for different policy areas meet to work on shared issues.
Political and economic cooperation. The EU cooperates in several political and economic areas. Member countries also have shared rules for their single market.
In 1945, after the Second World War. The UN was founded in 1945 after the Second World War. A fundamental purpose was to prevent new wars through cooperation between states.
2024. Sweden joined NATO on 7 March 2024. It had applied in 2022, so application and membership are two distinct steps.
Military defence and civil defence. Total defence includes military and civilian activities preparing Sweden for war. It involves both armed defence and keeping essential parts of society functioning.
Read the word in Swedish, then connect it with its meaning.
Original QuickSwedish practice questions. Read, choose an answer, then open the explanation. These are not official test questions.
01 / 03 · Swedish question
Which five countries make up the Nordic countries?
C. Sverige, Norge, Danmark, Finland och Island
The five countries cooperate through bodies including the Nordic Council of Ministers (Nordiska ministerrådet). Greenland, the Faroe Islands and Åland also participate as self-governing territories.
02 / 03 · Swedish question
What did Sweden’s military non-alignment mean during the Cold War?
D. Sverige stod utanför militära allianser
Non-alignment concerned Sweden’s position outside military alliances. The policy aimed to allow neutrality in war; it did not prevent cooperation through the UN, for example.
03 / 03 · Swedish question
A Swedish hospital exercises to keep treating patients during war. Which part of defence does this preparedness belong to?
D. Det civila försvaret
Civil defence helps keep essential services functioning during war. The hospital’s preparations are therefore part of total defence even though the staff are not soldiers.
A cooperation body for the Nordic parliaments — The Nordic Council consists of parliamentarians appointed by the Nordic parliaments. They discuss shared issues and make proposals to the governments.
They are appointed by national parliaments — Nordic Council members already sit in national parliaments. The parliaments appoint them; there is no separate direct election to the Council.
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