La socialdemocrazia svedese nell'Unione europea : il dibattito su occupazione e welfare

Swedish Socialdemocracy in the European Union: the debate on full employment and Welfare
In 1990-1991 the Swedish Social Democratic Labour Party (SAP) achieved two historical turning-points: the sudden «conversion» to Europeanism, after decades of steady opposition to the project of a continental political unification, and the giving up of the priority attached over a long time to the aim of full employment, now subordinated to the fight against inflation. The article is intended to deepen: the new economic policy applied by the SAP in the 1990s; the debate on Welfare State and the changes within it (particularly the pensions reform); the split as to the Swedish membership in European Union, not only between the SAP, on one side, and the Green Party and the Left Party (both allies of the Social Democratic one, but against UE), on the other side, but also within the SAP itself and the union. The conclusions are devoted to a short analysis of the political elections in 2006.