10/07/2006 12:42:44 pm
Intermediair About Swedish Failure. In this week?s edition of Intermediair, roughly the equivalent of The Economist in The Netherlands, the main article is about Sweden. It covers six pages and starts off by saying that many European Social Democrats admire the so-called Scandinavian Model. The rest of the article shows why this is largely all wrong. These countries did some market-oriented reform that might be learned from, but other countries should stricly avoid copying the big welfare state. Being interviewed, I contribute with facts and arguments.



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