Published: July 3rd, 2023,
Last updated: May 30th, 2025
In the fall of 2022, EU climate policymakers had a suspicion: the Commission, in coordination with the then-acting Czech EU presidency, would push through as many of the Fit-for-55 climate package files as possible, before Sweden was to take over the Council leadership in January 2023. The worry was that the newly elected right-wing Swedish government, dependent as it is of the far-right, EU-skeptic (and partly climate-denialist) Sweden Democrats, would try to block or at least weaken legislative decisions not only on climate issues but also within the overall European Green Deal-agenda.