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They presumably meant in terms of popular opinion, which was always going to be de facto necessary to join (even if in the end it happened without a referendum)
by tga_d 3y ago
They presumably meant in terms of popular opinion, which was always going to be de facto necessary to join (even if in the end it happened without a referendum). See the list of polls enumerated here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden%E2%80%93NATO_relations#Polls https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden%E2%80%93NATO_relations#...
- bertil 3y agoThe Swiss position on joining the EU follows a similar trajectory: the decision is negative, but that’s not because they think joining the alliance is a bad thing or that relations are strife, but because they thought, or think, that making things official would betray principles. Maybe compare it to a couple who live together but aren’t married and are opposed to it because one of them sees it as an encroachment of religion.