Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Madam Speaker, Honourable Members of the Riksdag, Today, we open the first parliamentary session of the new millennium. We do so in humility and with firm faith in the future. Mass unemployment has been curbed.
Growth rates are high.
Sweden has joined the front runners in the new economy. We are well prepared for the future. Prospects of pursuing active economic policies are better than they have been for a long while. For the first time in almost a decade, the decisions of our elected representatives are not dictated by policies imposed by deficits. Today we can choose.