Areas of Responsibility - Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth
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Culture
The Riksdag approved new cultural policy objectives in 2009. Culture is to be a dynamic, challenging and independent force based on the freedom of expression. Everyone is to have the opportunity to participate in cultural life. Creativity, diversity and artistic quality are to be integral parts of society's development. To achieve the objectives, cultural policy is to:
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- promote opportunities for everyone to experience culture and education and to develop their creative abilities;
- promote quality and artistic renewal;
- promote a dynamic cultural heritage that is preserved, used and developed;
- promote international and intercultural exchange and cooperation;
- pay particular attention to the rights of children and young people to culture. -
Media
The objective of the Government's media policy is to support freedom of expression, diversity and the independence of and accessibility to mass media, as well as to combat harmful elements in mass media.
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Sports
The objectives for sport are to give girls and boys, women and men opportunities to take part in exercise and sport so as to promote good public health, support a free and independent sport movement and give girls and boys, women and men positive experiences of sport as entertainment.
