{"id":24365,"date":"2024-01-30T21:23:29","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T15:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/macron-receives-ceremonious-welcome-as-state-visit-to-sweden-commences\/"},"modified":"2024-01-30T21:23:29","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T15:53:29","slug":"macron-receives-ceremonious-welcome-as-state-visit-to-sweden-commences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/macron-receives-ceremonious-welcome-as-state-visit-to-sweden-commences\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron receives ceremonious welcome as state visit to Sweden commences"},"content":{"rendered":"

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French President Emmanuel Macron was welcomed Tuesday with pomp and ceremony at the start of a two-day state visit to Sweden during which he will meet Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and the Scandinavian country\u2019s monarch, King Carl XVI Gustaf.<\/p>\n

Macron and his wife, Brigitte, were greeted by the king in the inner courtyard of the downtown Stockholm royal castle that is the official residence of the Swedish royals. There, Macron and Carl Gustaf reviewed members of the Grenadier Guards that had lined up.<\/p>\n

Macron noted that it had been too long since a French president visited Sweden \u2014 the last time was in 2014, when Fran\u00e7ois Hollande traveled to the Scandinavian country.<\/p>\n

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Later Tuesday, Macron is to discuss the future of European security at a military academy in Stockholm, together with Kristersson and the king. Russia’s war on Ukraine and Sweden\u2019s NATO application are likely to be on the table.<\/p>\n

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French President Emmanuel Macron, left, walks alongside King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden during a welcome ceremony in Stockholm on Jan. 30, 2024.<\/span> (Claudio Bresciani\/TT via AP)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

After more than a year of delays, Turkey earlier this month completed its ratification of Sweden\u2019s bid to join NATO, meaning Hungary is now the last member of the military alliance not to have given its approval. All NATO countries must agree before a new member can join the alliance.<\/p>\n

Following Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Sweden and neighboring Finland abandoned their traditional positions of military nonalignment to seek protection under NATO\u2019s security umbrella. Finland joined the alliance last year.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Macron and his wife are to travel to Malm\u00f6, Sweden\u2019s third-largest city, in southern Sweden, where they will visit a European multidisciplinary research facility under construction and visit a company to discuss green technologies.<\/p>\n

At home, Macron’s government faces angry farmers who have camped out around Paris. They demand better pay, fewer constraints and lower costs. On Monday, they encircled Paris with traffic-snarling barricades, using hundreds of tractors and hay bales to block highways leading to the capital.<\/p>\n

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The French president initially was to travel to Sweden in late October, but the visit was postponed due to the Gaza war that began with Hamas\u2019 attack in southern Israel on Oct. 7.<\/p>\n

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