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Thursday, August 28, 2008

Moves to let alcohol flow in Sweden

von David Ibison (Stockholm)

It's difficult to determine where the principles really lie in country with state owned monopolies on alcohol and gambling. Sweden's 'systems' have many critics, and EU-backed online services are already devising loopholes.

Travel to a small town outside Stockholm and it is not unusual to see a discreetly parked van, back door open, offloading crates of beer and spirits to a throng of cash-paying customers.

The clientele are not shuffling drunks but well turned out, middle-class Swedes, prepared to risk breaking the law to bypass the high prices at Systembolaget, the state-owned alcohol monopoly, known by its Stalinist nickname "Systemet" - or "The System".

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