A military power during the 17th century, Sweden has not participated in any war in almost two centuries. An armed neutrality was preserved in both World Wars. Sweden's long-successful economic formula of a capitalist system interlarded with substantial welfare elements was challenged in the 1990s by high unemployment and in 2000-02 by the global economic downturn, but fiscal discipline over the past several years has allowed the country to weather economic vagaries. Indecision over the country's role in the political and economic integration of Europe delayed Sweden's entry into the EU until 1995, and waived the introduction of the euro in 1999.To be updated
May 8th 2008Europe » Sweden So. Not many big super duper exciting things to report, but many little nice things have been happening. I'm still going to school, it's going very very well, I even went to the shop the other day t ... 10 photos[full story]
May 6th 2008Europe » Sweden » Gothenburg Just a quick entry. Hope everyone is well. We're having a great time here in Sweden with our friends, Camilla, Rick and their 3 energetic children. Having continuously glorious weather and enjoying Sw ... [full story]
April 27th 2008Europe » Sweden » Stockholm So... sorry about the last few countires, and sorry also that this one might be a bit longer than I usually aim for.
From Amsterdam we flew to Finland, where we promptly got on a boat to Tallinn i ... 1 photos[full story]
April 21st 2008Europe » Sweden » Stockholm So I manage to get more time in the Old town before heading down to the oil pumper - basically the ferry is a floating disco and all of the single people in stockholm and all of the single people in s ... [full story]
April 25th 2008Europe » Sweden » Stockholm After a rushed goodbye - as I slept in! - I depart from Kamila and Barthos's place (and trying to get them to come to Hong Kong) I rush over town to catch the train over to Malmo before switching to c ... [full story]
April 19th 2008Europe » Sweden » Lund So Sweden eh? Havign never been there, I had alot of preconceptions about Swedes and their homeland, all of which turned out to be based on pure fact. Thanks to the beautiful Øresund bridge, I was abl ... 5 photos[full story]
April 15th 2008Europe » Sweden » Stockholm As I write this, our Swedish visit is all but over and I am really quite disappointed. Sweden is a wonderful country, one that I would have liked to spend more time in. The contrast with the States co ... 14 photos[full story]
April 9th 2008Europe » Sweden » Gothenburg Well I made it, my big jump from Madrid to Stockholm and though it was only a three hour flight, they are worlds apart (as you would expect I guess). I spent a few nights in Stockholm doing all the t ... 11 photos[full story]
April 13th 2008Europe » Sweden » Stockholm Stockholm was a lot of fun! It is such a beautiful city - there aren't many monuments, so we had a really fun time just wandering around all the islands. We found some free museums to go to, so we e ... [full story]
April 11th 2008Europe » Sweden » Stockholm April 9
Today, starting from our 3pm arrival at JFK, was a bit of a shocker. Nothing particularly bad happened, but we did nothing but travel for almost 30 hours (I think; too many time zones!). We s ... 10 photos[full story]
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