Stiftelsen Sverige i Europa ("Sweden in Europe") was the main campaign organisation on the yes side in the 2003 referendum on the

euro The euro ( symbol: €; code: EUR) is the official currency of 19 out of the member states of the European Union (EU). This group of states is known as the eurozone or, officially, the euro area, and includes about 340 million citizens . ...

. Sweden in Europe involved all political groups supporting the euro, including

Social Democrats Social democracy is a political, social, and economic philosophy within socialism that supports political and economic democracy. As a policy regime, it is described by academics as advocating economic and social interventions to promote so ...

, in the campaign and published leaflets arguing for the euro from a

left-wing Left-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy. Left-wing politics typically involve a concern for those in soci ...

point of view. Most of its funding came from the business organisation the

Confederation of Swedish Enterprise The Confederation of Swedish Enterprise or Swedish Enterprise ( sv, Svenskt Näringsliv) is a major employers' organization for private sector and business sector companies in Sweden. It has 49 member associations representing 60,000 member compa ...

Ulf Dinkelspiel Ulf Adolf Roger Dinkelspiel (4 July 1939 – 9 January 2017) was a Swedish Moderate Party politician and financier. Career Dinkelspiel was born in Stockholm in 1939, the son of Max Dinkelspiel and his wife Brita (née Björnstjerna). He attended ...

, its chairman, was a Moderate Minister in the government of

Carl Bildt Nils Daniel Carl Bildt (born 15 July 1949) is a Swedish politician and diplomat who was Prime Minister of Sweden from 1991 to 1994. He was the leader of the Moderate Party from 1986 to 1999. Bildt served as Sweden's Minister for Foreign Affairs ...

between 1991 and 1994 and during the campaign former

Moderate Youth League The Moderate Youth League ( sv, Moderata ungdomsförbundet ; MUF), officially known in English as the Swedish Young Conservatives, is the youth wing of the Swedish Moderate Party. Of the political youth organizations that received financial supp ...

chairman Thomas Idergaard was its

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. It has recently been restarted to activate supporters of further

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External links

Official website
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