{"id":41,"date":"2025-09-15T11:28:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T11:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/sweden\/?page_id=41"},"modified":"2026-05-07T06:40:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T06:40:48","slug":"political-affairs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/sweden\/en\/the-embassy\/embassy-sections\/political-affairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Affairs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The mission of this Embassy is to represent the Hellenic Republic in Sweden and to promote relations between Greece and Sweden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this context, the Political Department of the Embassy in close cooperation with the other Departments of the Embassy monitors, analyses and reports on political and economic and other significant developments in Sweden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It also overviews Embassy\u2019s work in promoting cooperation between Greece and Sweden in specific areas including trade, investment, tourism and cultural exchanges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Greece and Sweden have very good political, economic, defense and cultural relations and enjoy a good level of cooperation within international Organizations (UN, EU, OSCE, the Council of Europe).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Treaty of Accession of Sweden to the European Union, was signed in Corfu, during the Greek EU Presidency, on 24 June 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"module module-missions\"><div class=\"grid gap-6\"><div class=\"p-8 bg-paper-grey w-full flex flex-col gap-4\"><h4 class=\"underline uppercase text-12 text-dark-blue underline-offset-8\">Stockholm<\/h4><h3 class=\"title text-midnight-blue\">Embassy<\/h3><div class=\"body text-dark-grey\">P.O. Box 55565, 102 04 Stockholm, Sweden, Visiting address: Kommend\u00f6rsgatan 16, 114 48 Stockholm (2nd floor)<\/div><div class=\"body text-dark-grey flex flex-col\"><div class=\"flex\"><span>Tel:<\/span><span>+46854566010<\/span><\/div><div class=\"flex\"><span>Emergency Tel:<\/span><span>+46732081442<\/span><\/div><div class=\"flex\"><span>Time Difference:<\/span><span>-1<\/span><\/div><div class=\"flex\"><span>Working Hours:<\/span><span>08:30-16:30<\/span><\/div><\/div><div class=\"flex flex-col font-semibold\"><a href=\"mailto:gremb.sto@mfa.gr\" class=\"underline text-bright-blue hover:text-light-blue\">gremb.sto@mfa.gr<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/sweden\/en\/\" class=\"underline text-bright-blue hover:text-light-blue\">Website<\/a><div class=\"text-dark-grey\"><ul class=\"!pl-0 flex gap-4 items-center h-full list-none\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/greeceinsweden\" target=\"_new\" class=\"!no-underline hover:!no-underline\"><i class=\"text-dark-grey hover:text-black mfa-icon mfa-icon mfa-icon-facebook text-20\"><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><div class=\"text-dark-grey\"><pre class=\"font-sans whitespace-normal\">Head of Mission: Aikaterini Fountoulaki, Minister Plenipotentiary First class<\/pre><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mission of this Embassy is to represent the Hellenic Republic in Sweden and to promote relations between Greece and Sweden. In this context, the Political Department of the Embassy in close cooperation with the other Departments of the Embassy monitors, analyses and reports on political and economic and other significant developments in Sweden. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"parent":36,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-related-children-sidebar.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-41","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/sweden\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/sweden\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/sweden\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/sweden\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/sweden\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/sweden\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1896,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/sweden\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions\/1896"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/sweden\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/sweden\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}