Carl Bildt at the EUI

Carl Bildt, Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs, gives a lecture on "The EU's role in the world" on Friday 28 May at 11.00 at the Badia Fiesolana, Sala Refettorio.

Carl Bildt is the Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs since 6 October 2006. He was formerly Prime Minister of Sweden from 1991 to 1994 and leader of the liberal conservative Moderate Party from 1986 to 1999. He is well known internationally as a mediator in the Balkan conflict, first serving as the European Union's Special Envoy to the Former Yugoslavia from June 1995, as co-chairman of the Dayton Peace Conference in November 1995 and as High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina from December 1995 to June 1997 immediately after the Bosnian War. From 1999 to 2001, he served as the United Nations Secretary-General's Special Envoy for the Balkans.