{"id":21601,"date":"2026-02-23T08:16:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T08:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/21601\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T08:16:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T08:16:35","slug":"stockholm-city-council-rejects-us-embassy-demands-to-end-dei-programming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/21601\/","title":{"rendered":"Stockholm City Council rejects US Embassy demands to end DEI programming"},"content":{"rendered":"

STOCKHOLM (AP) \u2014 The Stockholm City Council has rejected the U.S. Embassy\u2019s demands that it comply with the Trump administration\u2019s rollback of diversity, equity and inclusion policies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the latest in U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s efforts to terminate<\/a> such programs within the federal government \u2014 and beyond \u2014 in what he described in his inauguration speech as a move to end efforts to \u201csocially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Countries and cities across Europe have received similar outreach from U.S. embassies, including France, Belgium<\/a> and the city of Barcelona, all of which lashed out at the U.S. efforts to expand its anti-DEI policies to the continent.<\/p>\n

In an email to the city\u2019s planning office, dated April 29, the U.S. Embassy in Stockholm asked that Stockholm officials sign a certification that their contractors do not operate any programs promoting DEI that would violate U.S. anti-discrimination law.<\/p>\n

The city council said Friday that it will not comply with the embassy\u2019s demands or respond officially.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were really surprised, of course,\u201d Jan Valeskog, vice mayor for city planning, told The Associated Press. \u201cWe will not sign this document at all, of course not.\u201d<\/p>\n

Valeskog said that while the city wants to continue its good relationship with the embassy, it will follow Swedish law and city policies to include DEI practices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STOCKHOLM (AP) \u2014 The Stockholm City Council has rejected the U.S. Embassy\u2019s demands that it comply with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[83],"tags":[1210,211,904,184,14621,1162,7319,14624,1158,14622,131,132,14623,76,7318,1161],"class_list":["post-21601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-stockholm","tag-barcelona","tag-belgium","tag-diversity","tag-donald-trump","tag-equity-and-inclusion","tag-general-news","tag-government-policy","tag-jan-valeskog","tag-politics","tag-race-and-ethnicity","tag-stockholm","tag-sweden","tag-sweden-government","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-government","tag-world-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}