Lars M Andersson gave a presentation at a municipal economy conference in Malmö on the 29th of August. The title of the speech was ”How can municipalities meet future challenges”. He started with a survey of the situation for local authorities in Europe with a focus on the UK and France, to continue with the Swedish situation. In the short term it is a question how much the debt crises in some of the Euro countries will affect Sweden and it’s local authorities. In the longer term the demographic changers that leads to an older population, will cause higher cost for the care of the elderly at the same time that we have less taxpayer. Mr Andersson stated that his view is that the local authorities need to continue to make the operations more efficient, as one of the main elements for handling future challenges. This can be done with more inter-municipal cooperation. A new project for cooperation in administrative matters, for example accounting and salary management, was presented. This project has started after the initiative of Lars M Andersson and the Swedish association for municipal economists.
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