When BP ended its long hunt for a new chairman, the searchlight stopped in Sweden - a country whose GDP is smaller than the oil company's yearly turnover. But while the Scandinavian country's population may be small, its impact on business is huge. And it has a chance to show whether it's political influence is as weighty when it takes over the EU presidency this week. Carl-Henric Svanberg, the new head of BP, is currently chief executive of Ericsson. But even the telecoms giant is not Sweden's...
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