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This final empirical chapter brings us to Sweden, the third EU member among the Nordic states. Sweden joined the Union at the start of 1995. Accession followed a referendum in October the previous year, in which the electorate approved the terms of membership by a fairly narrow margin. After that, opinion polls consistently showed Swedes to be among the EU’s least enthusiastic citizens. Although outright opposition to membership gradually diminished (Tallberg et al. 2010: 86–94), Euroscepticism remained represented in the party system.
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© 2013 Nicholas Aylott, Magnus Blomgren & Torbjörn Bergman
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Aylott, N., Blomgren, M., Bergman, T. (2013). Sweden: Power to the Parliamentarians?. In: Political Parties in Multi-Level Polities. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137315540_6
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