Olof Palme

Bad disturbance arriving from Scandinavia on Brussels, that is, the fall, after more than a century, of the party Swedish Social Democrat. Which would mean a knockout blow to the already precarious political stability of the Union, above all because the expected defeat of the "party-state" given at most to 25 percent (only in the nineties did it travel at percentages around 45) it could be accompanied by the leap of the sovereignist right, dal 4 percent of 2010 al 20 percent in the next general election of 9 September. Brussels looks north with terror because, even if Sweden has the same inhabitants as Viktor Orban's Hungary, its political and symbolic weight is of a very different kind. What would happen if a leak opened in Scandinavia too?, even in the most progressive country, bastion of multiculturalism and universal values ​​of hospitality? In fact the government, despite the excellent results on the economic front, with practically non-existent unemployment, pay for not giving up, not even in times of rampant anti-globalism, to the traditional third world solidarity of Olof Palme's party («we are a humanitarian superpower», Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said just three years ago), welcoming, in a country of alone 9.5 millions of inhabitants, more refugees than all other members of the European Union, 600thousand from 2014, 163thousand asylum seekers in alone 2015. Read More