More Swedes want to switch currency from the krona to the Euro, with support the highest it’s been since 2009, according to a survey by Gothenburg University’s SOM Institute.
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YES! YES! YES!
please keep it up. boycott anything coming from the U.S.
What?
oooops, wrong thread. apologies.
This is somewhat related:
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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%.
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Sweden has already been in the EU for 30 years…
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.
Also we should change our official language to English. Those who want to keep old traditions alive can learn Swedish at home.
I’m not even kidding :P
Maybe it’s me not being able to count, so please tell me again how many (and which) countries gave up their language since joining the Euro?
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Thankfully this is a minority opinion and also mostly redundant, since most swedish people of working age speak and write English well enough for business purposes. There would be no benefit and a huge cultural heritage would be lost. Young swedish people need no extra motivation to learn english - they pick it up naturally from globalized media anyway, a lot faster than we can teach them.
The way the world is heading, it would be better to make German, French and Spanish mandatory in school instead.
Most Swedish kids do actually study German, French or Spanish. You can choose not the and read extra English and Swedish instead but that’s mainly done for people already performing poorly in language, people who really don’t need another language but need to master the ones they know. Some schools (including public schools) also let students study two of those languages instead of just one if they wish to. I’m currently studying French and German
Yes, I’m aware. I’m saying we should step it up and probably start earlier.
Maybe, it does sure create a sense unity with the other European countries
What are you talking about? Why would you stop speaking swedish?
All Swedes are basically fluent in English already and there’s no point keeping tiny little language around in a global world.
My kids (9 and 12) speak English more than Swedish since all content they consume is in English anyway.
And what’s the benefit to giving up what’s a such big part of our culture? And the part about kids speaking more English than Swedish is mostly not true. I’m in year nine of grundskola and almost no one I know prefers to speak English over Swedish. And that’s an almost because I know people who have grown up with English as their first language
The benefit is that we can attract more people to come, live and work in Sweden. While I have myself hired people and told them they don’t need to learn Swedish to live in our society, they’ve come back and said that actually they felt they needed to when they had settled and had kids.
I don’t have the same “culture” as my parents did. They didn’t have the same as their parents. Move forwards, not backwards.
The benefit is that we can attract more people to come, live and work in Sweden.
This is a job that Swedish Girls Abroad™ is already excelling at. The amount of sob stories from british, australian and american expats lured here by some blond vixen one has had to sit through…
(Come to think of it, we should probably discourage people from coming here instead, it rarely ends well. Be advised: Sweden is cold, dark and no one past 25 wants to make new friends. Education and culture is regarded with suspicion. When swedes hear music, they clap on beats 1 and 3. The younger generations even pissed away their social safety net to a large extent, which basically was their only USP as a country. It’s a culture of bean counting engineers with emotional lives irrevocably damaged by protestantism; don’t come here, if you value your sanity.)
While I have myself hired people and told them they don’t need to learn Swedish to live in our society, they’ve come back and said that actually they felt they needed to when they had settled and had kids.
Great, so let’s make all Swedish speakers feel this way instead of your inconvenienced employees (because you gave them bad advice). Most swedes aren’t as fluent as they believe themselves to be and prefer to speak swedish in day to day situations. When you have kids, you can’t live in your own little bubble anymore.
Nah, better that we just switch to English. The “Aj spiik Sveidish” boomers are soon gone anyway.
Sweden already erased the language of my forefathers (Scanian). As the world is ever more interconnected we’ll all come together around one single lingua Franca.
Sweden already erased the language of my forefathers (Scanian).
I don’t know if the kids still speak Skånska, but, when I lived there, Swedes above 30 who grew up in Scania did.
no thanks. we gain nothing from it.
the only party that campaigned on joining the eurozone, L, lost votes because of it.
