The Social Democrats ' volte face on possible accession to the EEC was most likely a prerequisite for the positive referendum result ) and Bildt signed the accession treaty at the European Union summit of Corfu, Greece, on 23 June 1994.

Bildt with United States Secretary of State | U. S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Washington, D. C. on 24 October 2006.

The opposition parties and other politicians as well as newspaper columnists have questioned Carl Bildt ’ s suitability as Sweden ’ s Foreign Minister for his private stance on international issues as well as his private affairs as a businessman with interest in Russian gas giant Gazprom, and Lundin Petroleum, an oil company with activities in war-torn Sudan.

After having left his political position as leader of the Moderate Party in 1999, apart from being engaged on international issues, Bildt took up a number of private sector positions as well as with international think-tanks.

Bildt was also criticized for not mentioning the Srebrenica massacre during a lunch meeting on 15 July 1995 in Belgrade with the Serbian President, Slobodan Milošević and the commander of the Bosnian Serb Army, Ratko Mladić, even though he had received reports about the ongoing massacre.

Following the early release of convicted war criminal Biljana Plavšić from Swedish prison in 2009, Bildt was reported to Swedens Committee on the Constitution for being disqualified to take part in such a decision.

On 8 April 2008, during his visit in Israel and Palestinian Authority, Bildt gave an interview to Swedish state radio, where he responded to a question on whether or not it would be possible to strike a peace deal without the involvement of the Palestinian group Hamas, which remained under international boycott.

After the 2008 South Ossetia war, Bildt wrote on his blog that the Russian rationale for its intervention, i. e. concern for the welfare of its expatriates in the Near Abroad, had certain similarities with the rationale for the annexation of Sudetenland.

Carl Bildt is involved with the Institute for Information on the Crimes of Communism, of which he is an honorary member and contributor to its publications.

Prime minister Carl Bildt relied at the time on a fragile coalition between the Moderate Party and three other liberal or conservative parties with a strained degree of cooperation.

At last Baron Gillis Bildt, who, while Swedish ambassador in Berlin, had witnessed the introduction by Otto von Bismarck of the agrarian protectionist system in Germany, accepted the premiership, and it was under his auspices that the two chambers imposed a series of duties on necessaries of life.

In parliament, New Democracy abstained from voting on the office of Prime Minister, and thus gave the four-party liberal-conservative government led by Carl Bildt its indirect support.

During his time at Belgrade he conducted negotiations on behalf of the international mediators ( David Owen and Carl Bildt ) with both the Yugoslav authorities and the Bosnian Serbs.

Nils Daniel Carl Bildt KCMG ( born 15 July 1949 ) is a Swedish politician and diplomat who was Prime Minister of Sweden from 1991 to 1994 and leader of the liberal conservative Moderate Party from 1986 to 1999.

Bildt himself was married to Kerstin Zetterberg 1974 – 1975, Mia Bohman ( daughter of former Moderate party leader and Minister of Economy, Gösta Bohman ) 1984 – 1997 and is currently married to Anna Maria Corazza since 1998.

When the non-socialist formed government in 1976, Bildt came to serve as the Moderate party coordinator in his capacity as close collaborator of the then party leader and Minister of Economy Gösta Bohman.

Bildt was elected leader of the Moderate Party in 1986, succeeding Ulf Adelsohn.

This was seen by many as a somewhat surprising move, because Bildt had already served both as Prime Minister and as leader of the Moderate Party and the previous conflict between Bildt and Reinfeldt.

The Moderate Party led a non-socialist coalition between 1991 and 1994 with Carl Bildt as Prime Minister.

* 1991 – 94: Part of four-party coalition government under Moderate Party leader Carl Bildt.

The Centre Party joined a centre-right government once again following the 1991 election, however, this government was led by the Moderate Party leader Carl Bildt.

In the Swedish general election of 1991, the Moderate Party and its allies had considerable success, leading to the formation of a centre-right coalition government under Moderate Party leader and Prime Minister Carl Bildt.

At the beginning of his term as leader of the Moderate Youth League, Reinfeldt supported the government of Prime Minister Bildt, but Reinfeldt gradually changed his views and became more critical of the party leadership.

Following the defeat of the Bildt government in the Swedish general election of 1994, Reinfeldt publicly criticized the Moderate Party leader, whom he believed had gotten too much dominance in the party.

On 14 February 1995, Reinfeldt was called to a meeting of the Moderate Party's Riksdag group, which took place in the former second chamber () of the Swedish parliament building, a meeting where Bildt apparently scolded him for hours.

After this, Reinfeldt toned down his criticism, but was ostracized within the Moderate Party and not given any important posts until after the change of leadership when Lundgren succeeded Bildt in 1999.

He was elected party leader by the 1999 party congress, succeeding Carl Bildt, but resigned only four years later in 2003, following poor results in the Swedish parliamentary election in 2002.

Carl Bildt, leader of the party between 1986 and 1999.

In 1986, Carl Bildt was elected leader of the party.

Following the 1994 defeat of the Moderate-led coalition government, Reinfeldt adopted a critical stance against the party leadership under Carl Bildt, which resulted in isolation within the party.

The term was coined by Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt in a debate against the opposition leader Ingvar Carlsson 1994.

Bildt is or has been considered persona non grata in several countries for remarks he has made against various governments, including Croatia, where he " lost the credibility necessary for the role of a peace mediator " by suggesting that the former President of Croatia, Franjo Tuđman, was as guilty of war crimes as the Krajina Serb leader Milan Martić.

" Bildt was described as being the perfect leader for the opposition to satirize ; a nobleman living in the affluent Östermalm with a boyish expression and a better-than-you attitude.

Carl Bildt also shown his commitment with the European Union project by joining the Young European Federalistsand later becoming vice president of the Swedish section.

Bildt in a meeting with former President of the United States | U. S. President Bill Clinton at Grand Hôtel ( Stockholm ) | Grand Hotel in Stockholm ( 15 May 2001 ).

In 2002 Bildt joined the board of directors of Vostok Nafta, a financial company primarily with holdings in Gazprom.

However, the criticism against Bildt for his interests subsided after he announced his intentions of divesting himself of all financial ties with the company as soon as is possible.

The New York Times criticized Bildt for a nonchalant attitude towards the Srebrenica massacre where over 8, 000 Bosniaks were killed, and described him as being burdened with a reputation for accepting Bosnian Serb claims of good behavior at face value and overlooking evidence of atrocities against civilians.

Several international governments criticized Bildt for having been ineffective and too closely affiliated with the Serbs in Bosnia and Serbia.

Bildt has also been questioned for his role as a member of the International Advisory Council of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, a group with ties to the Bush administration pushing for an invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Bildt was also described as someone who thinks he has more power and influence than he really has and called him a " medium size dog with big dog attitude ".

There have been reports that Wikileaks has documents proving Carl Bildt is a US spy, with various sources claiming Wikileaks is attempting blackmail.

Bildt also maintains a personal Twitter feed in English with approximately 125, 000 subscribed followers.

Het Bildt was largely settled by Dutch inhabitants from South Holland ; as a result, the language generally spoken there is " Bildts ", a dialect that mixes Dutch ( as spoken in South Holland ) with West Frisian ; Bildts is usually classified as a dialect of Dutch.

Signage in Het Bildt is generally bilingual, with names given in both Dutch and Bildts.

Het Bildt should not be confused with the county and town De Bilt in Utrecht province.

The peace conference was led by U. S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher, and negotiator Richard Holbrooke with two Co-Chairmen in the form of EU Special Representative Carl Bildt and the First Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Igor Ivanov.

Long well known in diplomatic and journalistic circles, Holbrooke achieved great public prominence when he, together with former Swedish prime minister Carl Bildt, brokered a peace agreement among the warring factions in Bosnia that led to the signing of the Dayton Peace Accords, in 1995.