Swedes continue to support EU membership despite rejecting its common currency in a referendum last year and giving euro-sceptics gains in last week's European Parliament elections, according to a poll published yesterday.
About 45 per cent voiced their support for European Union membership in the survey carried out in May for the National Statistics Office, with 35 per cent against it and the remainder undecided.
That compares with 44 per cent support and 36 per cent opposition in a similar poll in November. In last week's EU-wide elections, a large number of Swedes thumbed their noses at the pro-European ruling Social Democrats by switching votes to the euro-sceptical June List party.
The Social Democrats took the biggest share of the votes in the EU elections with around 25 per cent, but the June List, founded as recently as February, took more than 14 per cent.
Voter turnout was low.
But Swedes are no less sceptical now about joining the single currency than they were at last September's vote, when they rejected it by 56 per cent versus 42 per cent.
In the latest poll, just over 50 per cent said they were against joining the euro and 37.8 per cent were in favour.