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Swedish euro support below 10%: poll

12 December 2012, 21:34 CET
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(STOCKHOLM) - Fewer than one in 10 Swedes want their country to join the eurozone, Statistics Sweden said Wednesday as it published a fresh opinion poll showing euro support remaining at record low levels.

If a referendum on adopting the euro were to be held today, 82.3 percent of Swedes would vote against the idea, 9.6 would vote in favour of it, and 8.0 were undecided, according to a telephone survey of 5,500 Swedes in November.

Statistics Sweden has polled support for the common European currency since the euro's creation in 1997.

A year ago, its survey showed 11.2 percent were in favour of the euro, while a poll conducted by the Skop institute around the same time showed a record low support level of 9.6 percent.

Sweden, a country of about 9.5 million inhabitants, has been a European Union member since 1995 but rejected joining the eurozone in a referendum in September 2003.

Unlike Denmark and Britain however, Sweden has not negotiated any opt-outs enabling it to formally remain outside the eurozone.

The last time Swedish euro supporters outweighed opponents was in November 2009, when 43.8 percent were in favour and 42 percent were opposed.

The question of whether to adopt the euro has rarely been raised in Sweden since the eurozone's economic crisis.


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