Talk:Sweden and the euro

message: The pages statement that "The EU has accepted that Sweden is staying outside the eurozone on its own decision" is higly biased. The EU consists of 511 million people and officially the EU have not gave word for anything along this lines. Olli Rehn is not its president and holds no office in the EU.
The European Commission offical quote on 'Sweden and the euro' is "Sweden joined the European Union in 1995 and has not yet adopted the euro, but in accordance with the Treaty it will do so once it meets the necessary conditions."   — Preceding unsigned comment added by CSjoholm (talk • contribs) 12:36, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, of course the "EU" (whomever it refers to) has not accepted anything in violation of the treaties. But the fact is that the treaties do not oblige a member state to adopt the euro; it obliges a member state to adopt the euro once it fulfills the convergence criteria and the Council adopts a decision about the introduction of the euro in the member state. That is a huge difference. A member state who does not peg its currency to ERM II will never fulfill the convergence criteria and will therefore never be obliged to adopt the euro. This is exactly the Swedish case. --Nablicus (talk) 12:41, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: EU's acceptance of Swedish exception in article highly biased

message: "It was reported in the media that when Sweden changed the design of the 1-krona coin in 2001, it was a preparation for the euro. That is, some coins would have the King's portrait like the new 1-krona coin."
The 1-crown coin has the King's portrait since 1875, when the 1-crown note was replaced by the 1-crown coin, each coin showing the portrait of the person who happened to be the King of Sweden at the time when the coin was minted.  However, the wording above suggests that the King's portrait only has been on the 1-crown coin since 2001.
"Most major political parties in Sweden, including the governing Alliance for Sweden, which won the 2006 election and the former governing Social Democratic party, are in principle in favour of introducing the euro."
This wording suggests that Allians för Sverige/Alliance for Sweden is a single party.  However, it's a formation of four parties, and one of these parties, Centerpartiet/the Centre Party, was at least at the time of the referendum against joining the euro, the other three parties being in favour.
"On 24 October 2006, EU monetary affairs commissioner Joaquin Almunia stated that the European Union could theoretically take Sweden to court for not joining the euro despite meeting all the economic criteria, but that such an action would be neither necessary nor desirable currently."
How valid is this?  Sweden may be required to join the euro as soon as all criteria are fullfilled, but one of the criteria is that Sweden has to be part of ERM II for at least two years prior to joining, which Sweden isn't required to join. (58.188.97.134 12:01, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Regarding the wording about the king's portrait I changed the text to "have the King's portrait looking like the new 1-krona coin" --BIL 16:27, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

text: I have read that the EU commission will at least take action if Poland and Czech rep. does the same thing for too long time. These countries don't seem too hot on adopting the currency for now. Then the commission could do the same thing with Sweden. -- BIL 16:23, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The "Alliance for Sweden" part needs to be rewritten, using the separate party names.  But what is the current opinion of the Centre Party?  According to the Centre Party's home page, they are still against adopting the euro, but according to the Centre Party Youth's home page, at least the youth part of the party supports adopting the euro, although they require a second referendum prior to any euro adoption. (58.188.97.134 11:20, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm unsure, it would take up a lot of space... 惑乱 分からん * \)/ (\ (< \) (2 /) /)/ * 13:36, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Factual errors in the text 

message: Hi, there's a discussion currently ongoing about the potential renaming or merge/redirecting of this and other articles at Talk:United Kingdom euro coins#Crystal Balls that you may want to look at.  I suggest that further discussion remain there.  Thanks. Pfainuk talk 12:23, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion at United Kingdom Euro Coins

message: Why did you remove things that can be bought with euro in Sweden? I have just put few of them and I was planning to extend this list in future. Do you think it is not important? Please, explain the reason. --Dima1 (talk) 10:59, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I replaced it with the words both krona and euro can be used to pay for many goods and services in Sweden., mostly because this article didn't have a lead before and I was adapting that section into one.  I felt that a lead shouldn't have too much detail, and a full list of places that accept euros could turn out to be very long.  That's not to say a couple of examples aren't appropriate, but let's not overdo it. Pfainuk talk 12:10, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: OK. If I gather more information about it, I will put it in the content of the article and not into the lead. Thanks for answering so quickly. --Dima1 (talk) 12:32, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: EUR is accepted in some shops in Stockholm, most (all?) of them located in areas where a lot of foreign tourists are likely to hang around. Most other shops don't accept EUR as far as I know. Is this really significant enough to add?
I don't know anything about acceptance in other shops, except for dual (SEK+EUR) acceptance in many shops in the Swedish+Finnish cities of Haparanda, Torneå and Mariehamn. This is similar to the shops along the Swedish-Norwegian border, where both SEK and NOK often are accepted on both sides of the border. (212.247.11.156 (talk) 01:06, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Payment in euro in Sweden 

message: That's a payphone. --194.187.213.95 (talk) 11:29, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. I've changed it. --Dima1 (talk) 17:00, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Phone automates" 

message: The first sentence has been changed to add mention of the fact that Sweden is obligated to use the euro once the conditions are met.  I reverted this to the previous version (which said that Sweden has no plans to join the euro) - and a compromise suggestion was then put in place.  My issue is that, while the phrase is technically accurate, it is misleading because Sweden has chosen not to meet the conditions.  The situation de facto is much closer to that of Denmark and the UK than it is to that of Estonia (for example).
I don't think we need to have that in there because we explain the situation in detail in the following paragraph.  But if it is preferred that this go in the first paragraph, can I suggest that we integrate the first paragraph and the first two sentences of the second.  This way we could avoid repeating ourselves and ensure it is clear what Sweden is doing.  I can live with the current version, but I think this would be better. Pfainuk talk 22:48, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  First sentence 

message: I added a "copyvio" template to , used on this page, because the image appears to be taken from the SCB web site, although the uploader claims it to be his or her own work. (Stefan2 (talk) 19:31, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright violation 

message: Someone added:
Is this section really useful? International ferries typically accept both the currency of the country of departure and the currency of the country of arrival, so it is obvious that ferries going between Sweden and Finland would accept Finnish euros (and list Finnish prices for all items). Similarly, shops at Swedish international airports tend to accept a lot of different currencies, including the euro. If anything, it could be pointed out that euros are not accepted on the Tallink ferries going between Stockholm and Tallinn, despite the ferries making a short halt at Mariehamn. Besides, this does not only apply to the Viking Line ferries going between Sweden and Finland (as stated in the section), but also to the Silja Line ferries going between Sweden and Finland, and presumably also to the ferries belonging to Ånedinlinjen, Eckerölinjen and other companies providing services between Sweden-Finland and Sweden-Germany. (Stefan2 (talk) 22:52, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I changed it to "Double SEK-EUR prices are used on all ferries going between Sweden and Finland, and between Sweden and Germany. Also international airports in Sweden use double prices in shops." --BIL (talk) 07:02, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ferries 

message: Whose idea is to put the "Difference" column into the table? Is it a problem for anyone to calculate the difference of two simple numbers? Moreover the yellow light showed which of three columns gained the majority of votes. Now red and green colours doesn't make any sense. And what does light green and pink colours in the last column mean? I do not see any explanation for marking 9.11, 11.08 SEK, etc. with the light green and 9.16, 11.55 SEK, etc. with the pink colours. When a newcomer looks at this table he understands nothing from it, like I did today. I assume that we need to remove the "Difference" column as unuseful and the benefit of last column is under issue as there is no association between the results of public opinion and the current appreciation of the euro. --Dima1 (talk) 16:13, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The colour coding in the 'Value of 1 EUR' column represents if the value of the Euro has lowered or raised since the last poll, and shows by light green that a lowered value is favorable, while pink shows that a raised value is unfavorable. I've added a description below the table describing this. KodakYarr (talk) 07:48, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Table in Polls section 

message: I want to dispute adding opinion polls which are not statistically significant or official, like the one from the newspaper Aftobladet website, where you can vote an unlimited amount of times. Does any one else feel these statistically insignificant polls should be omitted from Wikipedia? KodakYarr (talk) 08:06, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Makes sense, is there an official Wikipedia ruling about polls? 惑乱 Wakuran (talk) 02:29, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Poll section featuring statistically insignificant/unofficial polls 

message: "The social democratic party leader Mona Sahlin, who according to previous polls was likely to be the prime minister of Sweden in 2010 […]"
That sentence looks rather biased to me, and actually sounds more like the personal opinion of the writer than anything else (seeing how it was added in 2008!). Perhaps a rewrite would be in order? 94.254.114.40 (talk) 09:16, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  "[…] According to previous polls was likely to be the prime minister of Sweden […]" 

message: "latest opinion polls" and "recent months" is too journalistic - and already, it would seem from the polls cited, out-of-date  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mens Sana (talk • contribs) 18:21, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  "...latest opinion polls showing a majority in favour of adopting the euro..." 

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message: Denmark is grey on this map. That is wrong. Denmark use a semi-€uro and should be half blue. They maintain their own papermoney and coins and currency but it is fixed to the €uro. 
Since EU nations without €uro are yellow and EU nations are blue Denmark shoulde be blue and yellow with mostly blue. The danish option would be a possible solution for Sweden and Norway, even if a better solution for these people obviously is to join the European Union and the €urozone fully as soon as they can. CS 13:46, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Denmark