Sweden sees strongest support for joining the Euro in 15 years
That's the highest number in favour of the Euro since the autumn of 2009, in the middle of the international financial crisis.
Researchers believe the increase may be because of the more unstable geopolitical situation.
"In that kind of situation you want to join other institutions, for example the EU, as a kind of counterweight," research communicator Daniel Jansson, from the SOM institute, told Ekot.
"The data presented here was collected in autumn and winter, before Donald Trump was sworn in as president and before the increased political instability we've seen during the spring. My guess is that we'll be even more positive towards the EU in the next survey in the autumn."
Another important factor to take into account is the fact that the krona was performing worse when the survey was carried out than it is now ‒ on Sunday, Bloomberg reported that the Swedish krona was the best performing of all 11 G10 currencies, the most traded currencies in the world.
The SOM institute ‒ which stands for samhälle, opinion, medier or "society, opinion, media," has carried out a national survey each year since 1986 looking at a wide range of different topics, ranging from attitudes to screen time among children and belief in God to attitudes towards a shorter working week or willingness to defend Sweden in the case of an attack.
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