Tuesday, July 9, 2019
The Almedalen week is Sweden’s largest gathering of politicians and opinion-makers. This year the Clapham Institute held two seminars. One of them on relations between Sweden/Europe and Israel in cooperation with Sallux. Mr. Per Ewert (Director Clapham Institute) first interviewed the captain of the ship Elida, Stefan Abrahamsson, about the journey to Israel, and how this initiative was received by Israeli media and politicians. Annika Borg from the Clapham Research Council (and a participating scholar in Clapham’s upcoming research project on the relations between with Israel gave input on the issue and Lennart Sacrédeus, former MEP and Swedish MP as well. The weather on the boat deck was very rainy but the attendance was there nevertheless. 