The fact that politicians and criminals start tax-financed welfare companies and become multimillionaires in a flash has irritated many. The European Commission has now opened its eyes to Sweden’s corruption with public funds and in a report calls on the country to remedy the problem. The authority MUCF’s political grant distribution will also be examined, the commission announces.
In recent years, the Commission has launched a series of legal proceedings and actions against several Member States for non-compliance with the “principles of the rule of law”.
For Sweden, the work against bribery and infiltration of politicians and organized crime in publicly funded activities is a cloud of concern, as Swedish politicians are not doing enough to remedy the problem.
Today, a report was presented on the state of the rule of law in the Member States. In the report, Sweden receives sharp criticism and several recommendations to do more against, among other things, corruption and organized crime that rake in tax money on publicly funded activities.
“Corruption in connection with organized crime infiltrating the public sector and / or the white economy is a problem,” the Commission writes about Sweden in the report.
Sweden also shows, according to the report, shortcomings with regard to the “legal definition” of corruption, which is too narrow according to the Commission.
“In Sweden, shortcomings regarding the legal definition of corruption lead to a modest number of prosecutions and convictions for corruption,” the report states.
“The fight against corruption is based both on having robust anti-corruption legislation and on enforcing it,” the Commission added.
The European Commission also states that Sweden in practice lacks rules for how politicians can move freely from politics to various “industries” where politicians can benefit from the decisions of their former political friends, so-called “open revolving doors” legislation. In recent years, politicians such as Jan Emanuel Johansson (S) and Ilija Batljan (S) have become oligarchs with large fortunes by switching to publicly funded “entrepreneurs” and using their established political contacts to rake in tax money in this way.
“In Sweden, the rules against revolving doors between business and industry and the highest decision-makers in the state are limited in their scope and the government has begun an evaluation of the current system,” the commission writes.
However, it is not clear which evaluation this is about.
Sweden also has a strange funding of “civil society” based on political criteria, where organizations that think much like the government benefit at the expense of organizations that have a different political view.
The agency MUCF distributes grants to associations and youth organizations that meet the “democratic condition”, ie thinks much like the government in matters of LGBTQ, feminism, diversity, immigration and a number of other policy areas.
If you do not like the government in these matters, you are denied grants, writes MUCF on its website. The strange rules for the financing of civil society in Sweden have now caused the EU Commission to react.
“In Sweden, the regulations for civil society financing and organization are subject to review,” the Commission announces.
It is not clear what review this is about, however, but Sweden now has one year to tighten up on the four points that the Commission has pointed out that it has shortcomings.
– [In a year] we will have the opportunity to evaluate how this year’s recommendations are complied with, says EU Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders.
Sweden now has four recommendations to implement – otherwise Sweden can be brought to justice in the European Court of Justice.
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