The opposition is warning that Sweden could face a new inflation shock that could hit both households and businesses hard. It is attacking the government for not showing sufficient strength to act.
However, S, V, MP and C have no common stance in their spring budget motions on how the Swedish economy should be strengthened in the face of a looming crisis.
The Center Party focuses on creating more jobs by investing billions in making it cheaper for companies to hire, through reduced employer contributions.
Reduced unemployment insurance
"Then you are blind to both the facts and people's everyday lives," says the Left Party's economic policy spokesperson Ida Gabrielsson about the proposal.
The Social Democrats' economic policy spokesman Mikael Damberg is also doubtful.
It is good that the Center Party focuses on job growth, because Sweden has failed with jobs in recent years and has a worse development than the rest of Europe.
But one can ask what are the most effective measures to combat unemployment, he says.
Damberg believes that there is a risk that reduced employer contributions will end up as profits for companies rather than for employees.
C also wants to finance reduced employer contributions through a faster phase-out of unemployment benefits, which would be difficult for the other red-green parties to agree to.
S, V and MP all want to increase various subsidies to households, especially child benefit. But V wants to go further than the others, with an increase of 500 kronor compared to S's 200 kronor.
Only S and C support the government's temporary reduction in fuel taxes. MP and V instead want targeted support for car owners in rural areas and for more vulnerable households, and they want to halve the price of public transport.
Different opinions on bank tax
The parties' spring budget motions focus on measures that they believe should be quickly implemented this year. The budget motions presented in the autumn are significantly more comprehensive and show the long-term differences more clearly.
The furthest apart are C and V. The Left Party wants to raise a number of benefits for households and increase a number of taxes. C is running on reduced taxes and is not keen on benefit increases. They also oppose S's election promise to abolish the qualifying deduction.
The Center Party also does not want to see a bank tax like the other parties are proposing.
However, Mikael Damberg believes that the red-greens can agree on how to reduce oil dependence and how the number of electric vehicles can be increased.
Everyone has suggestions for it in one form or another, he says.
