What about the euro and NATO ? Some fresh news ?
Are there recent polls to assess the level of popular support of those 2 possible memberships ?
NATO membership is as dead as ever. I don't remember any recent polling but Swedish support for NATO has not gone above 30% in my lifetime, I think.
Support for the euro has gone up a little bit. Last poll I saw the no-side was ahead by about 6%. There is a political deal within the governing coalition though to not make a decision during this term. The yes-parties did say in 2003, as one of their arguments, that the no-decision would be "eternal" and many specified a decade as the smallest possible time-period till a new decision. There is now, however, talk about having a new decision after the 2010 election. This would be facilitated by the Centre Party shifting from no to yes, uniting the government behind a yes (this shift has happened in reality, C is just not yet admitting to it).
The fundaments of Swedish opinion is still pretty euro-sceptical though.
The financial crisis seems to have impacted the Swedish opinion on the Euro:
Stockholm - Swedish opposition to introducing the joint European currency, the euro, has declined but a majority of voters still favour keeping the Swedish currency, a new survey said Monday.
The poll commissioned by the Dagens Nyheter newspaper showed that 48 per cent opposed replacing the krona with the euro while 44 per cent favoured introducing it.
The survey indicated that 7 per cent were undecided or would abstain from voting.
The November poll indicated that opposition to the euro was strongest in rural areas, among women and supporters of the opposition Left Party, Green Party and the Social Democrats.
However, a majority of backers of the Centre Party - one of four parties in the ruling coalition - were also opposed to replacing the krona. Fifty per cent were against while 45 per cent favoured replacing the krona, the poll said.
Market research group Synovate interviewed some 1,000 Swedes by telephone November 17 to 20.
In a referendum five years ago, 56 per cent of Swedish voters said they wanted to keep the krona while 42 per cent favoured the euro.
In May, a similar Synovate poll suggested that roughly 34 per cent favoured introducing the euro while over 51 per cent did not want to replace the krona.
Sweden joined the European Union in 1995.
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/news/article_1444653.php/Poll_Decline_in_opposition_to_euro_in_Sweden_
