About Carl Bildt
Nils Daniel Carl Bildt is a Swedish politician and diplomat who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1991 to 1994 and as Leader the Moderate Party (M) from 1986 to 1999. He later served as Minister for Foreign Affairs in the Reinfeldt cabinet from 2006 to 2014. He was Member of the Riksdag for Stockholm Municipality from 1979 to 2001. A member of the noble Bildt family, he is a great-great grandson of former prime minister Gillis Bildt. On 4 October 1991, Bildt became the first conservative prime minister in Sweden in 61 years, leading a four-party coalition government. In May 1968, Bildt opposed the occupation of the Student Union Building by leftist political forces and co-founded the Borgerliga Studenter – Opposition '68 group which went on to win the Student Union elections in Stockholm for a number of years. Bildt became a Member of Parliament in 1979, although he served instead as State Secretary for Policy Coordination in the reformed non-socialist government after that election. Benefiting also from his close links with German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, Bildt was able to initiate and conclude membership negotiations with the EU in record time, signing the Treaty of Accession at the EU summit in Corfu on 23 June 1994.
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