Tag: Sweden

According to itypeusa, Denmark, Russia and Poland concluded a coalition directed against Sweden, and in the 1700s war broke out. Charles first headed against Denmark and forced it to the peace of Traventhal, then turned against the Russians who he defeated in 1700 near Narva. The third enemy, Augustus of Saxony-Poland, was defeated in 1701 […]

With the pension reform of 1959, the construction of the welfare state in the Sweden Social Democratic had reached its completion: the sixties saw only its stabilization with some modernization (equal wages for women, educational reforms, etc.). The broad lines remained unchanged, with social expenditure and public education at the top of the budget (1970-71, 28.3 and […]

The elections of September 1979 registered a narrow victory of the parties of the government bloc and led, after the resignation of O. Ullsten, to the establishment of a cabinet headed by T. Fälldin and composed of liberals, centrists and moderates, which he could count on a majority of one seat. In March 1980 a […]

In the nineties, Sweden tried to confirm its political and economic stability in view of the entry into the European Union (EU), sanctioned by the referendum of November 1994 and formalized starting from 1995. In September 1994, after four years of conservative rule, the Social Democrats had returned to lead the country; it was up […]

At the end of the seventies even the “ Swedish model ”, which has always been emblematically avant-garde, appears to be invested by the general crisis, which materialized above all in a sense of mistrust towards what had been defined as the state of well-being par excellence and its acclaimed participatory democracy, centered on large […]

Climate. – Sweden climatologically belongs to the Atlantic region. The Baltic Sea and the proximity of the Atlantic Ocean give it a special climatic character; more coninentale of the coastal countries of the Atlantic, p. ex. of Denmark and Norway, more maritime than the great Russo-Siberian region. The temperature shows positive anomalies of 5-10 °, […]

According to smber, agriculture, which could feed about 2.5 million, that is about 40% of the population, compared to about 80% that fed in the middle of the century. XIX, will have to, in the future, and despite severe competition from industry, be regarded as the basis of existence for Sweden. However, it changes in […]

Following the second shock oil, the Sweden entered a period of recession in the three-year period 1980-82. To support economic activity, the government adopted spending programs that raised the government deficit from 4.0 to 7 percent of GDP. These deficits were mainly financed through the use of foreign debt, in order to keep interest rates low within […]

In the same 1520 Gustavo Eriksson Vasa started a revolt against the Danes; the movement spread rapidly throughout the Sweden: elected king by the Riksdag on 7 June 1523, Gustavo Vasa (who went down in history with the name of Gustavo I) conquered the capital with the help of Lübeck and drove the Danes out of the […]

According to agooddir, the long war and defeat also brought about the end of royal absolutism. In 1719 the Riksdag refused to recognize the sister of Charles XII, Ulrica Eleonora, as a monarch by hereditary right, electing her queen only on the promise that she would reign according to a constitution approved by the Riksdag […]