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Get your wine from Swedish vineyards. Poverty.  

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  (If the Center Party gets their project through, you’ll be able to buy your wine from Swedish vineyards.) The fields of white wine grapes of West Wines winery, Sonoma. Image: SACC SF/SV)

• Get your wine from Swedish vineyards
  The Center Party wants a trial based sale of wine on Swedish vineyards during the next term. Says Minister for Rural Affairs Eskil Erlandsson to SVT: "We propose a pilot project in three counties, and we suggest they be Skåne, Sörmland and Gotland.”

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  New statistics from Statistics Sweden claim the amount of poor tripled between the years 2004 and 2012.

• Poverty in Sweden on the increase
  The number of poor among unemployed, sick and early retired Swedes tripled between the years 2004 and 2012, according to new statistics from Statistics Sweden. In 2004, the percentage of poor people in Sweden were 10.3 percent; in 2012 it was 30.2 percent.