{"id":86446,"date":"2017-11-16T18:34:27","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T18:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=347b1bbaba2ff012711cd30ec8b44bb8"},"modified":"2017-11-16T18:34:27","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T18:34:27","slug":"news-story-pm-meeting-with-swedish-prime-minister-stefan-lofven-16-november-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=86446","title":{"rendered":"News story: PM meeting with Swedish Prime Minister Stefan L\u00f6fven: 16 November 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>A Downing Street spokesperson said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn advance of the Gothenburg Social Summit, Prime Minister Theresa May held a bilateral meeting with Swedish Prime Minister Stefan L\u00f6fven.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPM May began by thanking PM L\u00f6fven for hosting tomorrow\u2019s important summit, which gathers together heads of State and government, social partners and other key players to work together to promote fair jobs and growth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Brexit, the two leaders discussed the progress made so far in the negotiations on citizens\u2019 rights, Northern Ireland and the financial settlement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPM May reiterated her wish for the UK to have the smoothest possible exit from the EU followed by a deep and special partnership.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth leaders said they wanted to see further positive discussions ahead of the December European Council.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPM L\u00f6fven said that, post Brexit, he wanted strong UK\/Swedish relations as well as a strong relationship between Britain and the EU.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMrs May welcomed the deepening of the close defence and security cooperation between the two countries, including in the Baltic region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe leaders spoke about working together to tackle terrorism, including the importance of internet and social media companies automatically removing terrorist content.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe leaders also discussed how important it is for the EU to continue to have a firm and unified position on Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Theresa May met Swedish Prime Minister Stefan L\u00f6fven ahead of the Gothenburg Social Summit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86446"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}