Article: Why the voters are reluctant; Sweden and the euro.(Sweden on the eve of a referendum on joining the euro)

An economic hazard

Sweden seems far from keen to embrace Europe's new currency

THE murder of Anna Lindh (see previous story) has made the outcome of Sweden's approaching referendum on the euro harder to predict. The popular foreign minister was keenly in favour of adopting Europe's new currency, and her death may arouse sympathy votes on September 14th. The most recent polls, conducted before she died, had given the noes a lead of at least nine percentage points.

The government and its pro-euro business allies had thrown everything--including far more money than the other side, and, lately, a measure of political deviousness--into changing ...

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