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The agreement finances an upgrade of military defense in the next defense decision period in the years 2021-25 and also implies a supplement for the years 2026-2030.
● The Armed Forces will receive an additional SEK 1 billion in increased funding in 2024 and 2025 to offset cost and price increases.
● This level will also be maintained in the years 2026-30.
● A total of SEK 13 billion will be added to military defense.
Specifically, the agreement means that a new artillery regiment will be established in Kristinehamn 2021-25.
● Two infantry regiments will be reestablished in 2022 to reach their maximum capacity in 2026. However, it has not been decided where they will be located, but Östersund, Sollefteå-Härnösand and Falun are competing for the location to be indicated in the draft law. defense in a few weeks.
● The air force will have long-range robots to fight ground targets.
● The Navy will have four new corvettes and orders will be advanced for Corvettes 3 and 4 to begin by 2030.
● On September 30, the government will present a multi-year traditional defense policy bill to the Riksdag.
The Ministry of Defense wanted introduce far-reaching entries into the state budget for 2021, which will be presented on Monday. But L and C have strongly opposed a year’s defense decisions.
Traditionally, defense decisions are made by broad consensus. The margin in the agreement is lower than what M and KD have demanded. But the agreement means that the stalemate that had prevailed in defense policy since June has ended. The raises may lead to M and KD possibly backing a defense decision this fall.
The negotiations have been tough. They were first held between party defense politicians and Defense Minister Peter Hultqvist (S). But after being completely stalled, they were transferred from the Defense Ministry to Prime Minister Löfven’s Prime Minister’s Committee. In recent days, party leaders have negotiated, which both Annie Lööf (C) and Nyamko Sabuni (L) confirmed for DN.
The tours behind the agreement that has now been reached have been many.
The starting point for The negotiations have been the report of the Värnkraft Defense Committee of May 2019. That report proposed a major defense upgrade, an armament that would be ready in 2030.
The financing of Värnkraft was carried out in a first agreement on additions to military defense that was concluded on August 30 last year between the government and the January parties C and L. According to him, the credits for military defense would increase from the current level of SEK 60 billion / year five billion each. years during 2021-2025.
But last fall it turned out that the deal did not include price compensation for price increases. The effect of this was close to SEK 4 billion less than what the Defense Committee, as well as C and L, had expected until 2025 inclusive.
This has made the January parties and the government, despite agreeing on the economic level, increasingly disagree on what should be prioritized.
In addition, new expenses have been added, which politicians did not know about a year ago. Therefore, almost half of the proposed content of the defense decision is consumed by rising costs. Of the total SEK 100 billion that, according to the Defense Committee’s calculations, would be added to defense by 2025, SEK 46 billion will be consumed by increased costs. This causes delays in material deliveries to the defense and takes longer to get the units operational.
The government refused until June to push for more money in reference to the pandemic. At the earliest in 2023, there may be a discussion in a so-called control station about a surcharge, it has been the government line. Therefore, the retired Defense Committee could not agree.
But in last year’s S-MP-CL quadripartite agreement, it was said: “The goal is a defense decision that should be able to garner the widest possible support.” In plain text: that M and KD, who participated in making the current defense decision in 2015, must participate.
M and KD have demanded that the almost 4 billion be added without price compensation until 2025. In addition, the four bourgeois parties demanded that the ladders with the most defense financing continue to climb 5 billion per year in 2026 and 2027. This is also supported by the Swedish Democrats, at least a five-party parliamentary majority.
As a result, the three parties M, KD and L threatened to run over the government in the Riksdag. With the threat made at DN Debatt on August 29, there was also an extensive catalog of defense investments to which the money will go. This bourgeois platform is also behind the Center Party in substance, although C has chosen not to enter into open polemics with the government.
The text is updated
