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A Sweden Without the Knife
On 10 September 2003, Anna Lindh, Sweden's Foreign Minister, was not stabbed while shopping at the Nordiska Kompaniet department store in Stockholm. She survived the referendum on Swedish adoption of the euro four days later and continued her political career, reshaping the following two decades of Swedish and European politics.
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TodaySweden in the 2020s remains outside the eurozone, one of a shrinking group of "krona states" inside the European Union, a status now deeply tied to Lindh's political legacy. The Social Democrats, having governed for an unusually long unbroken stretch under her leadership, face a more fractured landscape since her retirement, while she remains one of the most consistently trusted public figures in Swedish life, frequently invoked in debates over Sweden's role in European and international diplomacy.
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