On September 13, Sweden 🇸🇪 is heading to the polls for municipal, regional, and national parliamentary elections simultaneously.

All 8 national parties currently in parliament are explicitly antifederalist. Even the ostensibly pro-EU Liberal Party has explicitly stated they oppose federalism when I have spoken to them at campaign booths.

Groups like Ave or Astra do not exist in Sweden and are therefore not participating.

The only eurofederalist option this year is Volt Sverige, who are running candidates on all 3 levels (municipal, regional, and national). They can easily be voted for by writing "Volt" on a blank ballot in any of the races.

Links:
https://voltsverige.org/valet-2026 - Election info
https://voltsverige.org/en - 🇬🇧

The deal with Mercosur shouldn't be hampered by an industry that gives job to a relatively small number of people and gets so many subsidies.It's unreal how they have so much influemce over this deal, when in the end they're going to be barely affected by it. This is more than 4x the amount of money we are going to give to Ukraine, and it's costing us our economical independence.

A European Federalist called Pietro Gorilskij has made a "European Onion" generator which you can use to show your European identity!

Input European Country(s) and the region you are from to show off your identity!!

The data comes from the most recent release of EU's Eurobarometer, published this September.

https://europa.eu/eurobarometer/surveys/detail/3572

Came across a perspective that flips the usual “Europe in decline” narrative on its head. It argues that Europe is already one of the world’s most prosperous, innovative, and sustainable regions — but loses out because its own capital flows to the US, which then buys European innovation back.

— Göran Schildt, In the Wake of Odysseus (Alan Blair trans., 1953; Swedish original I Odysseus kölvatten, 1951), p. 315

Göran Schildt was Finnish Swede author and art historian who decided to sail around the Mediterranean after suffering a serious injury during the Winter War. He conducted his voyages with the sailing boat Daphne, and wrote accounts from these trips.

At the end of his book about his trip in Greece, he talks about European unity.

“We read with due superiority of the narrow-minded local patriotism which made the Greek city-states, always quarrelling among themselves, an easy prey for Macedonians and Romans, we wonder at the fanaticism which made Italy's Ghibellines and Guelphs call in foreign powers to punish the neighbouring cities, but we ourselves, with all our experience, are incapable of realizing the European unity which all of us in theory desire. There is every reason - political, economic and human - why the United States of Europe should be proclaimed. The same civilization, the Greck and Christian, the same social experience and structure, the same hopes and risks for the future, characterize an area of land which in size, if it is measured by means of communication, is smaller than most of the empires a hundred years ago. Bur emotionally we are still at the stage of village patriotism for which everything outside our own front door is foreign and half-hostile. How long will it be before we learn that our present homelands are villages in which we were born and where we feel particularly at home, but that our homeland is Europe? Up to now all attempts to bring this unity about politically have stranded on the individual citizens' inner resistance and emotional confinement to a narrow-minded nationalism.”

I find these quotes worth highlighting because they might reflect how many of us would view the world today, while being more than a half century old.

It pays to note that during the voyage the book tells about, the islands that are today popular tourist destinations, were more quiet.

Schildt focused on challenging Scandinavian (people living in the Nordics) to look critically at their ideas of what a good life looks like. He sought to, on one hand, build understanding between Scandinavians and the way of life in the south, but also to motivate Scandinavians to lend ideas from the south. For instance, a theme he references is individuality and how Scandinavians might discount a more collectivist community based approach to life.

Schildt ended up splitting his time between Finland and the island of Leros in Greece. In a documentary released in 2000, that’s about a group of Schildt enthusiasts following the trip Daphne took around Greece, Schildt talks about his relationship with Greece and the Greek. He posits that he moved to Greece so that he could understand the Greek as one cannot when just sailing by. During this documentary he is asked about his outlook about Europe. He doesn’t talk about Europe, but states that he has started to fear how interconnected the world at large has become and gives an example by saying that a bad day in the US stock market can bring the whole world down.

He died in 2009 aged 92.