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have set up to fulfil long - term economic objectives. 23 21 such a policy would have some similarities with automatic stabilisers. these are also state contingent in the sense that they start to work when something special occurs, for example when unemployment starts to rise. of course, it is crucial to evaluate policy and require it to be effective, whether the policy is state contingent or time contingent. my impression is that the issue of whether fiscal policy should play a more active role and whether the fiscal frameworks should be reviewed is starting to be raised more and more in the economic policy debate : see, for example, calmfors ( 2021 ) for sweden and ubide ( 2021 ) and lane ( 2021 ) for the euro area. this is also underlined by the fact that the eso, the expert group for public economics, is planning a study in this field ; see https : / / eso. expertgrupp. se / pagaende - projekt /. however, it should be pointed out that this study will only refer to the interaction between monetary policy and fiscal policy in times of crisis, which i do not think is sufficient. a month ago, representatives of the government parties also argued, in a newspaper article, that the review of the fiscal policy framework planned for 2025 should be brought forward ( svenska dagbladet, 2021 ). in the statement of government policy on 30 november, prime minister magdalena andersson argued that swedish public finances are so strong that shifting from a surplus target to a balance target is justified. there are also, of course, 12 to be even more concrete, one idea could be to give the swedish fiscal policy council, or some other body, the task of continuously evaluating whether fiscal policy is keeping to the announced plan and delivering the expected results. consideration could also be given to broadening the mandate to include analyses of how overall macroeconomic policy is being conducted. monetary policy would thus also be analysed in parallel with fiscal policy in an overall economic policy context. as i have tried to convey, fiscal policy and monetary policy have become more interdependent than before and it would be valuable if a body were to continuously shed light on and keep us aware of this fact. sweden has good prerequisites the prerequisites for allowing fiscal policy to play this kind of more active role differ from country to country. as i see it, however, they are particularly good in sweden ’ s case