'The best of us all' - Ear To The Ground - Anna Lindh remembered - Brief Article - Biography

For A Change, Dec, 2003 by Alison Wetterfors

With these words, Margot Wallstrom, Sweden's EU Commissioner, described Anna Lindh, our foreign minister, shortly after her murder in a Stockholm department store.

A possible future Prime Minister, Lindh represented the best of Sweden's political tradition of openness and closeness to the people. A newspaper editorial wrote of her 'honesty, straight-forwardness and care' and added, 'for her, people were important'. The mosque in Stockholm dedicated its Friday prayers to her, the first time this has been done for a Swede.