It's a bit of a political debate for some.
It's a bit of a political debate for some.
Sounds more like a populist argument along the lines of: "Oh those dirty banks are stealing our money."
The only way that this could have a shred of truth is if the Sweden banks had to pay Swedish taxes rather than Lithuanian taxes. Given how taxes work, you generally get taxed where you do business, not where you are headquartered, so this is most definitely false. More likely the Swedish banks are investing capital in Lithuanian for the benefit of their not necessarily Swedish owners.
They should also check out what Icelands nationalisation of the banks led to.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%E2%80%9311_Icelandic_finan...
What's fun to note about social services in Sweden is that they're bleeding money like a motherfucker: more people are using the hospitals, schools, welfare checks, etc. More and more people are jobless and unproductive, even more unproductive people are being imported every year (over 140.000 immigrants are estimated to arrive during 2014), the services are prone to nepotism and very generous salaries for politicians and bosses (sometimes they're synonymous), etc.
The Swedish economy is a bomb waiting to explode, and Swedes are too afraid to speak about it for fear of being called racist or islamophobe or what not.
So... SNAFU. Just like the rest of Europe. Sucks to not be a politician / municipal boss right now. They're the only ones who have it blissfully easy.
There's the turk system administrator, the iranian who's also going to be a system administrator (once he gets a visa and my employer can actually hire him), the chinese guys, the pakistanians and so on....
Ironically the people from the E.U. that I know have been the people that are actually abusing the system. Like the welshman who is being "burned out" (no, he's not), and the irish guy who keep bouncing between jobs, and there are more people like this.