This is somewhat related:
Sweden says Russia is greatest threat to its security
Russia poses the greatest threat to Sweden due to its aggressive attitude towards the West, the Scandinavian nation's security service Sapo has said.
this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2025
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Another important factor to take into account is the fact that the krona was performing worse when the survey was carried out than it is now ‒ on Sunday, Bloomberg reported that the Swedish krona was the best performing of all 11 G10 currencies, the most traded currencies in the world.
Burying the lead a little bit there. Also worth noting that even then the opinion turned out to be a minority at 32%.
It wouldn't be a big change for swedes, just shave of a zero from the prices. They don't even use banknotes or coins often 😋
Kidding a bit, but it would be good if sweden joined the monetary union IMO.
Can't blame them. The Euro is managed quite reasonably. I can't speak for the Swedes but the EU only has to gain from Sweden joining the Eurozone. I've seen people comment here that giving up currency sovereignty is a terrible idea. But what does that mean? To me it simply means that in times of crisis, governments cannot simply order their central banks to print more fiat currency. This doesn't seem like a great long-term policy either.. but then again I'm not a full-time economist.
Feds don’t normally print money. That would be the treasury and they don’t get to choose how much. The feds usually adjust interest rates by buying and selling treasury bonds that they don’t pay for, or I should say pay for with accounts they can adjust their balances as needed, including destroying “money”, to achieve the desired interest rate and slow or speed the economy. A point of interest is that the fed is not a part of the government and isn’t supposed to be influenced by it. I know it’s a lot easier to just say they or the government just print money but there is a lot of nuance. Anyway, that’s not really what the discussion is so have a great day!
I really hope that would happen, and then there would be more pressure on Denmark to join too.
Worth noting that despite this, support is currently only 32%.
Serious question. Why 15 years? Why wait so long?
Not sure if you're being serious or not, but it's not about joining in 15 years, it's that the support is the highest it's been in 15 years.
If my sarcasm-meter is broken, I apologise.
I was serious and I misread that, sorry.
Eurocrisis with the Greek debt crisis and the like happened a bit less then 15 years ago. Right now the situation with Trump and Russia is scary for Swedes, so they are rethinking their position in the world. Also it is not majority.
YES! YES! YES!
please keep it up. boycott anything coming from the U.S.
What?
oooops, wrong thread. apologies.
no thanks. we gain nothing from it.
the only party that campaigned on joining the eurozone, L, lost votes because of it.