Sweden's long-term sick should recover

Sweden's Finance Minister Anders Borg has announced the introduction of tougher controls on the long-term sick regarding their ability to work. The government also plans to make it more difficult to work half-days for years on end while receiving unemployment benefit. The newspaper comments: "No one will land in the gutter but life will get tougher for some. Nonetheless the government's policy is aimed at creating more jobs... as well as offering rehabilitation and subsidised employment to people on the margins of society. The goal is to restructure a system in which 1.5 million people of working age were outside the job market when the Social Democrats left office... The budget presented by Mr Borg ... is the most bold and responsible budget ever presented by a conservative government."

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