Talk:Carl Bildt/Archive 1

earlier entries
I believe some text in this article is speculative. The lines "The different measures, including large cut-backs in public spending, did contribute to a rapid increase in economic growth as well as a reduction in the public deficit in 1994 and 1995." would be argued by many.Storebror 11:32, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Agreed. The growth part at least. The cut backs initiated by the right wing governement along with the social democrats however undisputedly helped in improving the fiscal position. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 129.178.88.75 (talk • contribs).

Président de Kreab Group : http://www.kreab.com/templates/Page.asp-id...1-parentid-3495 Council of International Institute of Strategic Studies : http://www.iiss.org/governance/the-council/mr-carl-bildt Advisor board du Centre for European Reform : http://www.cer.org.uk/about/advisory.html Advisory Council du Carnegie Moscow Center : http://www.carnegie.ru/en/about/4484.htm Board of directors de la New Eurasia Foundation : http://www.neweurasia.ru/eng/about/board.html Board of Trustees de la RAND : http://www.rand.org/about/organization/randtrustees.html comme Geithner... The Globalist's Advisory Board : http://www.theglobalist.com/about/boardmembers.shtml

samuel champagne

What happened to the image?
Its gone without a trace. Why? --Dahlis 20:37, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

KCMG? Where?
I would really like to know in which New Years honour list Carl Bildt is listed at, because there is no mention of it in the rest of the article, and there is no mention of the award in any independent source (independent from Wikipedia) on Google. So well, is it verifiable that he holds a KCMG? Gsmgm (talk) 19:35, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

POV dispute
Hello compatriots, Slarre and Bronks. I heard there was some sort of edit conflict going on here, and was asked to intervene on one of the sides, but hell no. I've removed all contested statements until the issue is settled here.

The conflict appears to originally be about the statement "The Iraq war is something that the Swedish Social Democratic government together with the UN was officially opposed to.". The conflict as I've seen it unfold:
 * Slarre disputes the original sentence
 * Bronks takes it for granted
 * Slarre edits the statement to a true but useless sentence ("some" of ~200 member nations? come on)
 * Bronks sources his original statement
 * Slarre corrects the statement, claiming it refers to Kofi Annan and not the United Nations
 * Bronks contests Slarre's edit, asking him to re-read the source
 * Slarre inserts a "POV-neutralising statement", "However, many people also supported the invasion to liberate the country from dictator Saddam Hussein."
 * Bronks removes it, claiming it's POV
 * Slarre reverts, confirming this as a full-scale revert war

Before I suggest any further changes, may I ask both editors to explain their respective point of views here? Jobjörn (Talk ° contribs) 01:19, 3 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Good, I don't think that any of those statements really belong to this article. It seems that the initial statement, "The Iraq war is something that Sweden together with the UN was officially opposed to", was added only to give more weight to the criticism. However, to only show the war critics' side would be a clear violation of NPOV, that's why I disputed it. The only thing that needs to be mentioned is that Bildt had a position within the the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq and what his opinion was on the conflict, of course supported by relevant sources and/or quotes.


 * On another note, I think that the section about Lars Danielsson should be removed from this article too. This "affair" did not get half as much attention as any of the other affairs that Bildt has been involved in, so it gives a very unbalanced impression when this takes up more than half of the section on Bildt's period as foreign minister. If that information really belong to Wikipedia at all, it should be added to an indendent article (Lars Danielsson) about the whole affair with more background info etc. /Slarre 01:46, 3 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Considering that you wrote the long Criticism section in Mona Sahlin, I'm surprised that you want to rid this article of criticism. Few people have even heard about Enn Kokk or the other controversies in that article, while almost everyone in Sweden knows about the Danielsson-Bildt affair. Vints 08:32, 3 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Interesting point, but large parts of the Criticism section in Mona Sahlin has since been removed by... yours truly. Jobjörn  (Talk ° contribs) 08:59, 3 March 2007 (UTC)


 * I do not want to rid this article of criticism, I want the criticism to be balanced and described from a neutral point of view. We are discussing this article now, not Mona Sahlin. /Slarre 22:09, 3 March 2007 (UTC)


 * I don't see what the problem is. Carl Bildt is getting heavy critizism (right now) for his lobby work for invading Irak, and that has to be in the article. (I don't care if it was to "liberate Iraq" as Slarre claims and wants to POV enter, or if it was becouse Bildt is an Oil-Busniessman) The fact is still that Bildt wanted the war and that he is being critizised for his involvment in it on two main points: 1. Sweden was offically against the war, 2. and the UN was against the war too. Bronks 10:05, 3 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Would you like to comment on my arguments above? /Slarre 22:05, 3 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Apparently not. I'm removing the POV content then. /Slarre 04:42, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Is it really fair that the "Controversies" part is about 1/3 of the whole article? I dont see him as THAT controversial. I would lika to see a discussion on wether or not Carl Bildt is so controversial that 1/3 of wikipedia's article about him should be dedicated to this /C --83.248.248.226 (talk) 11:16, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

NOrwegian ancestors
Source: Gustaf Elgenstierna's family trees, book I, states clearly that the very family called Bildt in Sweden (to which Carl Bildt is known to belong to), has as its ancestresses: Dorotea Bjelke, daughter of Chancellor Jens Ovesen Bjelke; and Blanceflor Vincentsdottir Lunge, daughter of Chancellor V.V.Lunge and his wife Margret Nilsdottir Gyldenloeve, daughter of High Steward Nils Henriksson. Suedois 11:35, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Highest respect to you and your Nobelty. You changed the world in a positive way. Best Regards and Long live Carl Bildt! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.98.147.64 (talk) 06:06, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

Accusations of spying for the US
Aftonbladet.se have now confirmed these allegations of Wikileaks, see:

http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article16421007.ab

I'll leave you to the fight of incorporating that info in the article, I'm not a big fan of for wikipolitics. 176.11.98.94 (talk) 17:42, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Controversial politician?!
Is Carl Bildt really that controversial that almost 50% of his wiki page should be dedicated to controversies/criticism? /Secni 83.248.27.240 (talk) 16:45, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

The section "2014 crisis in Ukraine" is very one sided. There is only criticism present. It is just a collection of statements of Bildt followed by criticism. It is not clear what the views of Carl Bildt actually are. If you want to write about a person, you should first explain what the views of this person are. In my view this section is not at all ready for Wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.181.150.66 (talk) 21:45, 11 August 2014 (UTC)


 * That section's name is Controversies and criticisms, and I expanded it during the escalation of the Ukrainian conflict, as news sources started reporting the many controversies around him. Anyway, I agree that there should be more about the non-controversial activities regarding his involvements in Ukraine. If anyone has a good idea on where to begin, please expand another section with relevant info... - Anonimski (talk) 08:16, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
 * It's a one-sided attack section based on weak sources, e.g. the tabloid Aftonbladet's culturalpages's tantrum, which was itself a scandal in Sweden, not even its political and international affairs reporting--and on OR. Why not check what leading international journals write about Bildt? While use Swedish tabloids and far-right and far-left websites? is a 12:01, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

Please explain the WP:UNDUE part in the recent revert description.
I know that Nyheter Idag is a smaller right-wing/conservative news source, but I added it because it provided evidence that supported the article. As for the Expo refs, they were added as the interviewer himself brought up the topic, it is usually not WP:SYNTH to bring related sources to the claims in the first one. Could you explain your exact line of reasoning in this case? Anonimski (talk) 12:05, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Why not try to search for high-quality sources and use them to write the article. Stringing together attacks on Bildt from far-left and far-right sources, often from non reliable sources, is not the preferred method of writing biographies of living persons. is a 12:07, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Far left and far right? I've collected info from the major newspapers in most cases. The Nyheter Idag article was included because it actually provided evidence that the interview was conducted in that manner, otherwise I would have rejected it too. - Anonimski (talk) 12:10, 29 January 2015 (UTC)