*Ed. note: correction! The EU meeting mentioned below is still going on. Löfven, again, won’t make it home for Midsommar celebrations aka the biggest and arguably most important holiday in Sweden.
Stefan Löfven must have been glad to be back in Sweden for its holiday – for many years the EU ignored Sweden entirely and set up its top leadership summit on Midsummer exactly. This year though, it was yesterday. Löfven wasn’t able to come home to Sweden with much accomplished though. The Swedish aim is a climate neutral Europe by 2050, but the resulting agreed upon text says merely that the EU will be climate neutral according to the Paris Agreement and then, in a footnote according to DN.se, it states that for many EU countries this means 2050.
Not a power mission statement iow, but certainly better than nothing. A strong – and binding- statement is scary for countries like Poland, Czech Republic and Hungary inter alia who fear environmental regulations will negatively affect jobs and growth. You have to respect that worry too.