OREANDA-NEWS  The Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka is going to visit the Swedish Kingdom on 3 and 4 November 2016. The topic of negotiations with the Swedish Prime Minister, Stefan Lofven, and other representatives will be mainly the Czech-Swedish bilateral cooperation in the field of economy and energetics.

The Prime Minister Sobotka will negotiate with his counterpart Lofven the support of economic contacts between the Swedish Kingdom and Czech Republic, mainly in innovative fields and digital industry, cooperation in energetics, defense and security cooperation focused on the defense industry or regional cooperation between the Visegrad Group and Nordic-Baltic Eight (NB8). The topics of the prime ministers? meeting will be also the current European and foreign issues.

When travelling to Sweden, the Prime Minister will be accompanied by company representatives from the sphere of energetics, metallurgy and consecutive engineering branches with a high innovative potential. The enterprisers will take part in the Czech-Sweden seminar focused on the energetic market and smart cities. During the two-day program in Sweden, the Prime Minister will meet also the representatives of the local Czech community. The Prime Minister of the Czech Republic visited the Swedish Kingdom last in June 2009.