Pensioners score with Sweden’s new budget

– Sweden’s caretaker government said next year’s budget would include a cut in taxes for pensioners but that 2019 spending plans, presented yesterday, would likely undergo changes when a new administration takes office.

Voters delivered a hung parliament in September and neither the centre-left bloc nor the centre-right Alliance has yet been able to form a new government.

The 2019 budget is broadly an extension of 2018’s spending plans. – Reuters

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