Sweden: the left Eurosceptic, social or national?
A portion of the anti-left is the name of defending the Swedish model. Who hides a nationalist tension.
The idea of Europe lives of difficult days in the countries of Northern Europe. This is notably the case of Sweden, where a left marked by the Euro-scepticism is facing a line more favorable to liberal Brussels. In this political divide are differences of intellectuals increasingly marked between progressivism on the defensive and a liberalism that denounces happy latent nationalism thinkers Social Democrats. Beyond the controversy, the debate revolves around a central question: the Swedish social compromise can he survive otherwise than within the national framework fairly tight who was born? The answer to this question deeply divided the left. By the early 1990, the prospect of joining the European Union has mobilized a very strong resistance of the radical left and the Greens, but also within the Social Democratic Party in power. It was only after an intense campaign that elite social democrats arracherent to their electorate a “yes” pronounced lip. Since then, mistrust of “Brussels” has been further strengthened, as was shown in the 2003 referendum on joining the euro zone, where the “no” won with 56%.
Sweden is not the only country where the conversion from the left in Europe is difficult, although it remains to know why the question …
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