Purnama, Indhi Vanya and Putranti, Ika Riswanti and Basith, Andi Akhmad (2021) SWEDISH EUROSCEPTICISM: POLITICAL AND DEMOCRATIC DIMENSION /34/HI/2021. Undergraduate thesis, Faculty of Social and Political Science.

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Abstract

From Swexit referendum discourse, refusing to join the eurozone, the growing anti-immigration sentiments, the rise of popularity of right-wing parties which oppose its membership on the union, to several rejections of EU policies, Sweden has been one of the EU member-states with high indicators of Euroscepticism. Most studies of Euroscepticism in Sweden have been focusing on the Euroscepticism itself and few of them discuss the factors behind Swedish Euroscepticism. Previous study of Bacescu (2014) and Sorensen (2017) highlighted four factors driving Euroscepticism in member-states, two of which democratic and social/politics. This research is trying to deeply portray contestations in Sweden’s and the EU’s culture of democracy and politics and how it contributesin Sweden’s scepticism toward the EU. Research finding shows that Sweden and the EU has rather unique differences in their culture of democracy and politics. In some senses, these differences eventually played role in arousing Sweden’s scepticism toward the EU. These resulted in Sweden’s soft Euroscepticism in which they are sceptical of the Union’s dream as a federal Union, but are still okay with and support the cooperation going in the EU.

Keywords:Euroscepticism, European Union, democracy, politics, Sweden.

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