I feel very much at home in Ireland. The Swedes and the Irish do not only have potatoes in common,. To generalise: we are equally attached to neutrality and sceptical against attempts to militarise the European Union. We feel close to nature, we have some strange food (but I must admit that something like a “crisp sandwich�, meaning two slices of white bread with potato crisps in the middle and nothing else, I had never believed would be considered a lunch meal…! ;-) ) as well as heavy drinking habits in common. And then of course the cultural heritage and pride, including the language.
Margot Wallström, the Swedish EU commissionnaire, also went to Ireland and just like me, she liked it :-)
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