Stockholm nixes ‘bizarre’ US demand that Swedish contractors be anti-DEI
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Stockholm nixes ‘bizarre’ US demand that Swedish contractors be anti-DEI
Stockholm is flatly rejecting a demand by the U.S. that the Swedish community’s City Planning Office gut DEI programs, and that local American embassy contractors and suppliers must not be involved in any diversity operations.Stockholm Vice Mayor for City Planning Jan Valeskog called the anti-DEI demand “bizarre” and “completely absurd,” and said Stockholm will never agree to it.“It’s contrary to everything we stand for,” said Valeskog, the Sweden Herald reported. “They should withdraw these peculiarities,”He warned that the American embassy has now risked future trouble with Stockholm.“If the U.S.A. terminates its acquaintance with the City Planning Office, the embassy will ..