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| Drink-driving Sweden minister rues 'biggest mistake' | Drink-driving Sweden minister rues 'biggest mistake' |
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| Sweden's youngest ever government minister, Aida Hadzialic, has resigned after being caught driving over the alcoholic limit. | Sweden's youngest ever government minister, Aida Hadzialic, has resigned after being caught driving over the alcoholic limit. |
| Hadzialic, 29, is minister for higher education and one of Sweden's first Muslim ministers. | |
| She called the drink-driving incident "the greatest mistake of my life". | She called the drink-driving incident "the greatest mistake of my life". |
| Hadzialic, who arrived in Sweden aged five from Bosnia-Hercegovina, drank two glasses of wine before being stopped on the bridge linking Denmark and Sweden. | Hadzialic, who arrived in Sweden aged five from Bosnia-Hercegovina, drank two glasses of wine before being stopped on the bridge linking Denmark and Sweden. |
| She faces a possible term of up to six months in prison after police detected a blood-alcohol level of 0.2 grams per litre. | She faces a possible term of up to six months in prison after police detected a blood-alcohol level of 0.2 grams per litre. |
| Booze calculator: What's your drinking nationality? | Booze calculator: What's your drinking nationality? |
| Explaining her error, she said she had drunk one glass of sparkling wine and one of red after a night out in Copenhagen. She set off for Sweden's southern city of Malmo four hours later. | Explaining her error, she said she had drunk one glass of sparkling wine and one of red after a night out in Copenhagen. She set off for Sweden's southern city of Malmo four hours later. |
| Hadzialic said she thought that would have been enough time for her body to get rid of the alcohol. | Hadzialic said she thought that would have been enough time for her body to get rid of the alcohol. |
| Explaining her decision to quit, the Social Democrat told reporters: "I choose to do this because I believe what I have done is that serious." | Explaining her decision to quit, the Social Democrat told reporters: "I choose to do this because I believe what I have done is that serious." |
| Sweden is one of several European countries which have low alcohol limits for drivers. | Sweden is one of several European countries which have low alcohol limits for drivers. |
| Drink-drive limits (grams per litre of blood) | Drink-drive limits (grams per litre of blood) |
| UK, Malta: 0.8 (Scotland 0.5) | UK, Malta: 0.8 (Scotland 0.5) |
| United States: 0.8 | United States: 0.8 |
| Most European countries, including Germany, France, Spain, Italy: 0.5 | Most European countries, including Germany, France, Spain, Italy: 0.5 |
| Sweden, Poland, Estonia, Cyprus: 0.2 | Sweden, Poland, Estonia, Cyprus: 0.2 |
| Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia - no alcohol while driving | Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia - no alcohol while driving |
| A 0.5-limit would mean an average man can take take a small glass of beer or a large glass of wine and women up to half a pint of beer or a small glass of wine | |
| Sources: drinkingandyou.com; European Transport Safety Council | Sources: drinkingandyou.com; European Transport Safety Council |