The pro-European profile of Sweden's Liberals

The Swedish Liberals yesterday presented their programme for the European Parliament elections. Among other things it calls for Sweden to join the Eurozone. Although this issue won't be decided by the European Parliament it will heighten the party's profile, writes the Stockholm evening paper Expressen: "Hopefully the clear pro-EU profile of the Liberals and the heated election topics will boost voter turnout, which tends to be low in EU elections. The Liberals are a necessary component in EU policy and amid the grey mass of the [vacillating] parties and the neo-nationalist Conservatives; in a Sweden that is still suffering the consequences of the referendum of 1994. In a Swedish debate on Europe that is still paying the price for the speeches [the former social democratic prime minister] Tage Elrander made in 1961, when the Social Democrats closed the door on European cooperation."

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