Danish Government unveils new 2025 economic strategy 27-09-2016

The Danish prime minister, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, has revealed the government’s new economic strategy looking ahead towards 2025.

The proposal, ‘Helhedsplan – for et stærkere Danmark’ (Master plan – for a stronger Denmark’), contains seven key areas including welfare, labour, competitiveness, refugees and education.

The seven central parts of the 2025 plan:

1.                  Higher wages for the long-term unemployed who return to work, and tax-free working conditions for the homeless

2.                  Tax breaks for new entrepreneurs, deductions for investors, a strategy for shared economies, more affordable electricity, water and heating, axing the PSO tax.

3.                  Boosting Denmark’s welfare model and security.

4.                  Better education and a more robust SU system - establishing a pool to lift the competencies of the Danes, overhauling the educational support model.

5.                  Better control of the refugee flow.

6.                  Better savings for a secure old age - the strategy aims to make pension savings obligatory and set up a pension bonus.

7.                  Reserves for the security of Danes - the government wants to set aside 24 billion kroner to balancethe current faulty real estate evaluation process.

Source: cphpost.dk
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