At first, the headline elicited a "what?"
Then I read this:
"Swedish regulators believe cryptocurrency mining will prevent the country and the EU from complying with the Paris agreement on climate change
And again "come on"
But then it turned out that officials called for a ban in the European Union for mining cryptocurrencies using the Proof-of-Work algorithm.
In general, okay, Ethereum developers are already planning to abandon PoW in favour of the Proof-of-Stake algorithm, what will happen with other coins, will they also switch to a new algorithm or will they blow off these news?
That's really odd! Because I believe Sweden was the first country in the world to create a completely cashless economy quite successfully. That shows their technical advancements but now with this comment, I would think twice before calling them advanced.
I am sure the government officials are misguided by the banking lobby. The banking industry has seen that they are unable to fight with the popularity of bitcoin. So they are trying to take different ways to fight it and this could be one if those different ways.