{"id":4631,"date":"2023-10-21T19:35:47","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T17:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/?p=4631"},"modified":"2023-10-21T19:35:47","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T17:35:47","slug":"sweden-discuss-dumping-krona-adopting-euro-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/?p=4631","title":{"rendered":"Sweden discuss dumping krona, adopting euro instead"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The single European currency, used by nearly 350 million people every day, has become a hot topic in Sweden.<\/p>\n<p>The Swedes, who have the world&#8217;s oldest central bank and a 150-year-old currency, began discussing the benefits of switching to the euro after the krona&#8217;s unprecedented depreciation last year. Before that, the topic had hardly been raised at all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBetween 2010 and 2022 I got zero requests to speak about euro adoption,\u201d said veteran economist Lars Calmfors, a frequent commentator on economic policy, at a recent seminar in Stockholm. \u201cBy the latest count, that number is up to six or seven a week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Recent opinion polls still place the krona above the euro, although support for adopting the single currency is growing in tandem with the krona\u2019s decline.<\/p>\n<p>For now, however, it&#8217;s just talk, and Swedes are looking over the fence to see if the grass really is greener on the other side after the krona&#8217;s plunge hit consumers looking to buy imported goods, retailers selling them and manufacturers who rely on eurozone and other countries for components.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The single European currency, used by nearly 350 million people every day, has become a hot topic in Sweden. The Swedes, who have the world&#8217;s oldest central bank and a 150-year-old currency, began discussing the benefits of switching to the euro after the krona&#8217;s unprecedented depreciation last year. Before that, the topic had hardly been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}