last time this came up we held a referendum and ~~90%~~ a majority said no. the only party campaigning on adopting it is below the number of votes required to keep their seats in the riksdag according to polls.
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Adopting the Euro has its price as shops can use it to increase prices by minimum 20% just ask the Germans, there's a reason they called it Teuro.
That's not really a criticism of the euro is it? I assume they could just legislate to keep both prices for a year or two just to keep the shopkeepers honest.
When I think about it, the downsides of the Euro are less than what is gained.
And I will confess that I still have a bit of anti EU sentiment, but have several times been happy for the EU because they straightened crazy laws introduced by member states, so over the years I am now becoming net positive for the EU.
So let Sweden get the facts on how bad the Euro inflation is, instead of my old gut feelings.
They did this in Croatia. Nevertheless prices rose up across the board.
But then they would have risen even without the introduction of the euro, no? This wasn't raising the prices by stealth because people couldn't convert between the currencies, it was just normal price hikes. Prices go up all the time.
No, introducing Euro was 100% used as an excuse to hike up the prices even more. That's not inherently a Euro problem, but corruption problem, yes. However, it did happen. At this point the prices are as bad as in Austria. Or even worse.
That's a symptom of lacking regulation, though. Shops did use the introduction of the Euro as a means to hide excessive price hikes. The reason wasn't the Euro, it was unchecked greed using whatever opportunity presented itself. Technically, the "introduction" of the Euro had already happened years before it became available as cash and was made the standard means of payment for the general public, because the Euro participants had already fixed the exchange rates of their respective national currencies in preparation.
Germans will find something to hate on on everything.
As a German, you're not wrong :D
Well then now might be the best time to do this, as inflation might be coming below two percent in the near future.
And Finland too, usually things that was really cheap got a big hike in price.