Jacob Wallenbergs varningsord

Jacob Wallenberg, som sitter i styrelsen för Svenskt Näringsliv, har med sitt utspel i FT sannolikt förändrat bilden av det politiska läget i Sverige i den internationella näringslivsvärlden. Det är verkliga allvarsord:

Sweden’s leading  industrialist has sounded the alarm over a likely leftward shift after  September’s elections, warning it could lead entrepreneurs to flee the Nordic  country.

Jacob Wallenberg, whose family foundations indirectly  control nearly half of Stockholm’s stock exchange, told the Financial Times  that “a massive shift to the left” in recent weeks worried him because it called  into question reforms in Sweden over the past decade.

“If there is a new government and if they change the rules – be that on  taxation, labour, a number of different things – the risk you are running is  that you see entrepreneurs leaving the country or electing to do other things,”  said Mr Wallenberg. He added that he and other business leaders wanted to see  “predictability and stability”.