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Strongest support for the euro in Sweden since 2009

by AI | 10.Mar 2025 | Europe in brief AI

More Swedes want the euro as their currency. In fact, support for introducing the euro hasn’t been stronger in 15 years, according to a new large national survey.

Euro banknotes. Photo: BTA

Stockholm – More Swedes want the euro as currency, according to a new survey.

32 percent of Swedes respond that the introduction of the euro is a “good proposal”, compared to 41 percent who think it is a “bad proposal”, according to the latest Som survey. This means it is the most positive opinion for introducing the euro since autumn 2009, when the international financial crisis occurred.

One reason why the euro opinion has now gained momentum could be the troubled world situation, reports Sveriges Radio Ekot.

“Then you want to come together with other institutions, such as the EU as a kind of counterbalance,” says Daniel Jansson, research communicator at the Som Institute at the University of Gothenburg, to Ekot.

“The data that is presented now was collected last fall and winter, before Donald Trump was actually sworn in as president and before the increasing geopolitical instability that we have seen during the spring. My guess is that the EU will be even warmer to our hearts now in the autumn survey,” he continues.

The Swedish National Som Survey has been conducted every year since 1986 by the Som Institute at the University of Gothenburg.

The latest was conducted between September 16 and December 30, 2024.

(March 10)