Two pc of Swedish want to join EMU

STOCKHOLM, Jan 7: Sixty-two per cent of Swedes want to join the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), an opinion poll said yesterday, reports AFP.

Sweden, with nearly nine million inhabitants, is a member of the European Union but is not in the first wave of euro-founding countries.

In the poll, carried out by gallup 36 per cent said they wanted Sweden to join the euro rightaway, while 26 per cent said they were for membership at a later date.

Twenty-two per cent said they did not want to join and 16 were uncertain.

In a March 1997 polls, 27 per cent wanted to join right away, 20 per cent later, and 36 per cent were against membership.

Men were in general more positive to the EMU than women.