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Swedish foreign ministry blocks Borg's Thai Christmas holiday

Sweden's finance minister Anders Borg has cancelled his plans for a family Christmas trip to Thailand - on the advice of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs.

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Borg: unions will alienate their members

Sweden's biggest trade unions should back, and not protest against, a reform package proposed by the government that includes cuts in benefits, finance minister Anders Borg said in an interview published in the Financial Times on Thursday.

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Borg will not be prosecuted

Finance minister Anders Borg will not face prosecution, despite admitting that he paid domestic workers cash-in-hand. Prosecutors have also decided not to pursue former ministers Maria Borelius and Cecilia Stegö Chilò.

unemployment

'Punishments for inactive unemployed'

Finance minister Anders Borg wants unemployed people not actively seeking work to be docked a day's benefits. He intends to introduce the change "as soon as possible", Svenska Dagbladet reports.

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Borg admits paying cleaner cash-in-hand

Finance minister Anders Borg has admitted that he employed a cleaner who he paid cash-in-hand, without declaring the arrangement to the tax board.