Economic policy|The government’s economic policy sparked a colorful debate between representatives of the governing parties and the opposition at Yelle on Thursday evening.
Discourse the government’s economic policy got hot in some places on Yle’s A-talk on Thursday evening. The chairmen of the opposition parties Sdp and the centrist parliamentary groups Titti Tuppurainen (sd) and Antti Kurvinen (central) set, among other things, the government’s employment measures.
“The bottom has completely fallen out of the government’s economic policy. At the moment, in terms of employment development, Finland is the weakest in Europe,” said Tuppurainen, accompanied by Kurvinen.
“By cutting, the government is only exposing Finland to a shrinking national economy, instead of focusing on growth, and on how to get Finland on a path where employment would start to improve,” Tuppurainen continued.
The government is aiming for 100,000 new jobs in Finland during the government term. According to Statistics Finland, in August there were approximately 35,000 less people, adjusted for seasonal and random fluctuations, than when the government started in June last year.
Curvy again emphasized that the deficit in Finland’s public finances should be closed especially by accelerating economic growth. According to him, Finland’s economic growth should be raised to two percent for the next few years.
“If we were to achieve this, after four years we would have about 12 billion more money in the state coffers and about 30,000 new jobs at least.”
Kurvinen also accused the government’s growth investments of being “absolutely non-existent” and accused the government’s business policy of being geared towards big business. In his opinion, the government forgets startups and SMEs.
Minister of Economic Affairs Will Rydman (ps) said that the opposition representatives are confusing the government’s structural reforms with the economic situation. He stated that Finland is in a difficult economic situation.
Kurvinen interrupted the minister’s answer: “It’s clear.”
“Aha, well that was an intellectual comment,” Rydman replied.
“Cyclical issues are one thing, and structural reforms are another. The government is specifically carrying out structural reforms to build the foundation for future economic growth,” he continued.
Rydman also stated that Kurvinen knows “very well that the government’s growth measures are “anything but non-existent”. Rydman listed, among other things, various investment incentives.
“We are making major labor market reforms that specifically facilitate the opportunities for smaller companies to make local agreements and lower the threshold for hiring new employees,” continued Rydman.
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