Swedish government scraps country’s pioneering ‘feminist foreign policy’

New rightwing government said label could be counter-productive'; policy contributed to new legislation in some 20 countries

Sweden's new rightwing government has announced it is ditching the country's pioneering feminist foreign policy", launched by the leftwing administration in 2014, saying the label could be counter-productive.

The foreign minister Tobias Billstrom announced the move just moments after prime minister Ulf Kristersson presented his new government, backed by the far-right Sweden Democrats for the first time.