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Sweden is inching toward political transformation
Sweden may be nearing a political realignment of historic proportions. The mainstay, center-left Social Democrats can no longer deny that public safety problems stemming from mismanaged immigration are real or ignore the alarming erosion in the quality of education, healthcare and social security systems. The future of the party’s alliance with blue-collar labor unions, once the source of its impressive staying power, is also uncertain. The party’s national-conservative nemesis, the much-reviled Sweden Democrats, has been gaining strength and may win big in 2022.
From the Yellow Sea to the Baltic
The Baltic Sea is an unlikely place to find Chinese warships. Their presence at joint naval exercises with the Russian navy went well beyond showing the flag.
A Europe of regions will be essential for the union’s future
At this historic juncture, leaders of the European Union should awaken to the fact that Europe’s strength has always been its common cultural heritage and its diversity. The way out of the EU’s current bind is through expanding regional cooperation and replacing centralistic, market-strangling regulations with robust, friendly competition.
Disarmed Sweden has few options in face of Russian aggression
Recent polls indicate that more Swedes now want their country to join Nato than those who want it to remain outside the alliance. In the Swedish political landscape, this represents something of an earthquake, upsetting a traditional consensus on non-alignment. And it is the obvious result of mounting pressures from ...
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