Sweden's Cecilia Malmstrom has the unenviable task of bringing the Trump administration around on trade.
E.U. Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström speaks during a news conference after an informal meeting of E.U. trade ministers in Bucharest, Romania, on Feb. 22. By Emily Tamkin Emily Tamkin Foreign affairs Email Bio Follow March 6 at 11:09 AM A veteran Swedish politician could be the most important thing standing between Europe and more of President Trump’s tariffs.
Europe experts say she’s up to the challenge. “Cecilia Malmström is a rare European leader these days — extremely personable, deeply knowledgeable across a wide array of issues, and staunchly pro-European and liberal,” Erik Brattberg, director of the Europe Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, wrote in an email.Malmström isn’t the first high-profile woman tasked with somehow getting the Trump administration to see things her way.
But some say that in Malmström’s work in and with Washington, the role that her gender will play in these negotiations, and in Trump’s perception of them, isn’t crossing her mind. Asked whether Malmström, who hails from gender-equality champion Sweden, is likely to be thinking about sexism as she heads into her meetings, Karin Olofsdotter, the Swedish ambassador to the United States, said simply, “No, I don’t.
“As trade commissioner, she has been relentless in promoting free trade deals for the E.U.
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