The murder of Anna Lindh (see previous story) has made the outcome of Sweden's approaching referendum on the euro harder to predict. The popular foreign minister was keenly in favour of adopting Europe's new currency, and her death may arouse sympathy votes on September 14th. The most recent polls, conducted before she died, had given the noes a lead of at least nine percentage points. The government and its pro-euro business allies had thrown everything-includ-ing far more money than the other side, and, lately, a measure of political deviousness―into changing voters' minds. The yes-campaigners had been hoping that enough waverers would decide in the end to follow their leaders' advice, much as in 1994, when the country voted by a narrow margin and only after a great show of reluctance to join the European Union.
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