[autom.vertaling] Vraag naar Zweedse euro opt-out (en)

After Swedes voted to reject the euro last month, the government is coming under pressure from the from the left and green movements to put Sweden's position outside the Euro zone on a stronger legal basis.

The Swedish Greens and Leftists are demanding that the government should start negotiations with the EU on a legally binding opt-out on the third phase of the EMU, writes Dagens Nyheter.

In a statement the Greens (Miljöpartiet) accused the government showing the "lack of respect for the will of the people", who voted `no' for the euro on the referendum.

An opt-out on the adoption of the euro would be "a logical consequence of the result of the referendum", said Camilla Skjöld-Jansson, MP for Vänsterpartiet (Leftists), according to EKOT/Sveriges Radio.

"The government should take up this issue in the Intergovernmental Conference on the EU treaty," she added.

Unlike Denmark and Britain, the two other EU member states that have not adopted the euro, Sweden has no formal opt-out on the third phase of the economic and monetary union.

Shortly before the referendum in September, the former Conservative prime minister Carl Bildt said that it would be a violation of the referendum result to omit taking up negotiations on this issue in the case of a `no', writes Dagens Nyheter.

Prime Minister Göran Persson's Social Democratic minority government depends on the support of the Greens and Leftists to stay in power.