Sweden Targets New Investment Plan for Infrastructure Next Year
Prime Minister Stefan Loefven revealed the investment plan in an interview with Bloomberg on April 20. He said then the government is considering outlining investments separately from the budget, to support infrastructure and housing as part of his push to create jobs.
Photographer: Casper Hedberg/BloombergSweden’s government targets introducing an investment program for infrastructure projects as early as next year as part of its plan to cut the nation’s jobless rate to the lowest in the European Union by 2020.
“We are working on an investment plan,” Finance Minister Magdalena Andersson said in an interview after a speech in Stockholm on Wednesday. “At the earliest, we could present this with next year’s infrastructure proposal,” she said. “We will see how it will be financed.”