Sweden is larger than a lot of European countries...
Scandinavians tend to think in terms of heads, not area. According to that worldview, Canada and Australia are also smallish countries.
Yes, I was thinking primarily of the population size, not land area. And Scandinavia cover the same latitudes as Alaska... very few people live in the northern parts and you can't really do any crop farming north of Denmark. (It's a lot warmer during winter than in Alaska though, thanks to the gulf stream.)
But the discussion here is about independence from the EU (and the US), and compared to all of EU or USA Sweden is
tiny small also if you consider area (it's about the same size as California).
The point I was trying to make was that even in Sweden with its 10 M people, some still complain about power being too centralized and want independence for Skåneland or Jämtland, etc,
![Grin ;D](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/xgrin.gif.pagespeed.ic.QVVz6XIT20.png)
. And English complaining about power being centralized in Brussels is also sort of ridiculous considering what their own union with Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales looks like. As some 'mericans are saying here, California might as well be broken up in smaller states. You can keep breaking things up until you only have 1 person kingdoms, which would be the same as anarchy, which most people agree isn't a good way to organize things.
So, I suspect most people also agree that different levels of cooperation/organization are necessary, but it's important decisions are made at the right level, and that is what the principle of subsidiary is about. So EU is actually very good in that regard.
But the really astonishing/outstanding feature part is that Sweden among the very few European countries dont have a constitutional court so in practice any civil servant who abuses the system goes entirely free, which has been proven many many times. And in the latest parliament voting to decide if such a court should be implemented the environmentalists and socialists vote no, no wonder!
We don't need a constitutional court because
any Swedish court can rule that a law is unconstitutional and therefore invalid, so our normal courts doubles as constitutional courts, sort of. Having a special constitutional court with politically appointed judges like many other countries wouldn't improve anything.
Sweden is a tiny country.
Tiny? Have you looked at a transverse mercator projection map recently?
Here's a geekier projection
![Cheesy :D](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/xcheesy.gif.pagespeed.ic.KPzuH4J-TG.png)
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