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Fewer Swedes favour euro over krona: poll
Published: 15 Jun 10 09:41 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/27230/20100615/
A clear majority of Swedes would vote against switching from the krona to the euro if a referendum on whether Sweden should adopt the common European currency were held today, a new poll shows.
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The new report is based on interviews in May, after the outbreak of the Greek debt crisis, and indicates a clear shift in public opinion from the SCB November poll which was the first since the 2003 referendum which indicated a majority support for ditching the krona in favour of the euro.
While both men and women favour retaining the krona, differences remain between the sexes over levels of support for the euro (November 2009 figures in parentheses).
Among men, 31.4 (50.3) percent favour the euro, while 58 (38.4) percent want to keep the Swedish krona.
Among women, 24.2 (37.2) percent indicating they would vote yes to the euro, while 61.9 (50.3) percent said they would vote against switching to the European currency.
The bi-annual SCB poll which has been conducted since 1997 indicates however that Swedish support for EU membership remains stable, with 56 percent in favour in May 2010, unchanged in relation to November and May 2009.
The SCB telephone survey is based on 9,035 randomly selected voters. The fall off in the May 2010 survey was 32.1 percent which means that SCB interviewed 6,135 people from April 28th-May 30th.
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The Greek crisis is now a full blown European disaster with Hungary the latest shoe to drop in the Greek tragedy. Still, many of the Euro-zone's top officials seem oblivious to the impending disaster. If European ministers continue on this path, the euro-zone may ultimately be doomed.
Hungary is not in the Eurozone.
Some Eurozone countries are in trouble, namely Ireland, Greece, Spain and Italy because they adopted US style economics. That is now starting to change.
Hungary joined the EU in 2004. It retains the Forint.
For the Euro to survive, it is necessary for the complete economic integration of all EU members, who must devolve their tax and spending policies to a single and unelected EU financial body.
This is politically impossible, at this time or any other time, and therefore the Euro is doomed to failure. This was made clear by economists at the start of the adventure, and was ignored by those who put European integration above good economic advice.
The EU will not oversee the orderly deconstruction of the Euro, it will continue to put band aids over the cracks until it runs out of money, and then it will fall apart.
European integration was a nice idea, but poorly handled by arrogant and ambitious fools who pushed too hard. It will be hundreds of years before it will be politically possible for someone to try and do it again properly. Shame that.
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