Saturday, September 23, 2006

Sweden: only a very Moderate change / Spiked Online, 19 Sep 2006

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/earticle/1679
Nathalie Rothschild
"The victory of the centre-right coalition over the Social Democrats is a result of the winds of opportunism rather than the winds of change. There has been much handwringing in British and other European media and political circles about the result of the Swedish elections. With the Social Democrats out, some commentators are referring to the result as ‘Stockholm syndrome’ and claiming that it has sent ‘reverberations’ and ‘shudders’ around Europe. But how much has really changed in the land of the welfare state?"