Löfven will fight for his jobbmål – Aftonbladet

Västerås. Stefan Löfven now launching three step towards the goal that Sweden should have the EU’s lowest unemployment rate in 2020.

It’s about controlling public contracts and to invest in industry and skills.

The work shall include the 10,000 long-term unemployed find work.

– I’m so tired of all the fateful stories of being unable to reach the goal. It must be said the prime minister.

The Social Democrats are this weekend gathered in Västerås for its 38th congress.

Stefan Löfven hold right now his opening speech, but had time before it a head start with a press conference if he calls new Swedish jobs agenda. In these parts included investment in housing, infrastructure and climate as well as business policy and skills development and matching.

– We are just a little bit into this term. We will continue to deliver more investment, more ideas and more reforms and we can already, after just eight months in office, note that we start checking off jobs promise for jobs promise, says Löfven.

Contracts with requirements on the job

The Prime Minister told about the three steps that he believes together to help the government to achieve the objective of the EU’s lowest unemployment 2020. All included in the so-called jobs agenda.

It is to use the 600 billion procurement crowns that public Sweden stands for every year to create more jobs.

When the community buys in services should at the same time require that the employment of such long-term unemployed.

– Should Sweden activate only half of our procurement of capital would upwards of 10,000 long-term unemployed to get work, he said.

A new procurement authority should be set up for work this fall.

– We should use our strategic procurement, says Löfven.

Stefan Löfven meant that there are now EU directive shows that it is possible to set these requirements.

Industry and education initiative

But the prime minister also highlighted two other areas that will create more jobs.

One is a nyindustrialisering of Sweden where everything from the increased focus on exports to that in Sweden build facilities to test and demonstrate new ideas and products, and a coordinated approach to create jobs in the life science field.

The third part of the government’s strategy is to implement the education initiative presented earlier. 2018 is about 40 000 places and five billion allocated for this purpose – an amount that will be increased in the future, according to the prime minister.

– There will not be enough, I can already say, say Löfven .

“Tired fateful stories”

Stefan Löfven stressed at the press conference that it has become more difficult to reach the goal that Sweden should have the EU’s lowest unemployment rate in 2020, since it was up at the last Congress. This he also said in an exclusive interview in Aftonbladet on Thursday.

– But this does not mean that we can now say, “Now we must give up, this is not possible”. This line is just a proof that we must do even more. It is we ourselves who shape our future, says Löfven.

– I’m so tired of these fateful stories that you can not. It’s difficult, yes, but let’s not say spring 2015 that it is impossible.

Löfven was furthermore clear that the government does not plan to borrow money for investments, which LO, SSU and parts of the party demanded before Congress.