Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said in a message posted on Twitter: “I truly fail to understand what Greece intends to have a referendum about. Are there any real options?”
This is, of course, the same (usually sensible) Carl Bildt who (along with much of his country’s establishment) campaigned for Swedish membership of the euro in the course of a 2003 referendum (happily, his advice was rejected). In the course of that campaign, Bildt responded in this way to reports that British euroskeptics were visiting his country in order to persuade Swedes to vote nej:
However, Carl Bildt, Sweden’s former conservative Prime Minister and a fervent ‘yes’ campaigner, wants British eurosceptics to keep meddling.
‘It has been particularly helpful for us,’ he told The Observer.
‘We’ve had these loonies coming over here and talking about Hitler, and that has led lots of Swedes to quit the “no” side. Send more of your loonies over.’
“Loonies”, eh, Carl?






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