The Confederation of Swedish Enterprise| Meet Kenneth Bengtsson has been steering the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise for nearly a year. He’s a hard worker from Småland, in the south-central Swedish highlands, who gets up at the crack of dawn. And he’s the first retailer to become board chair of the largest employer’s association in Sweden.

Spring Fiscal Policy Bill | “A good bill in the spring can bring an even better growth oriented budget bill for the fall. The government has presented measures that improve the climate for entrepreneurship and create more jobs. Very good! Moreover, I see there is the economic basis for more offensive growth measures. I therefore am counting on the government offering additional concrete reform proposals in the fall budget bill,” says Urban Bäckström, General Director at the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise.

Commentary | The governing centre-right Alliance in Sweden has brought forward several positive reforms recently, including the expanded tax exemption for foreign expertise. But if we are to encourage more enterprising people in Sweden, we need to see more offensive growth oriented legislative reforms and more of them, says Urban Bäckström, General Director at the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise.