Hultqvist talking about moving the date of the decision – Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet

Negotiations on defense going on virtually around the clock at different levels, and is the Alliance’s remaining party leader, active, and will continue talks on the Department of Defense during Hult’s leadership.

It is clear that the time is running out for what was originally the intention: to take government decisions in the next Cabinet meeting next Thursday and put a proposition on the appropriation levels and focus for the next five years April 24 – otherwise there can be no defense until after Parliament’s summer break in October.

– We’ve obviously preparing schemes of government offices, but it’s also so that you may determine when a bill is inserted, says defense minister.

Is it possible to add the bill later?

– I’m not going to comment on anything until we see the whole picture and are done with this

But you’re suggesting that it could be later?

– Formal things are possible.

Is there an option to postpone the bill until after the summer and make a decision then?

– I have no comment, I opened not for nothing, in a formal sense are the possibilities if one is to go by the book.

In practice, the government has three options when to consider how the issue of defense handled.

• The first is that despite everything negotiate a settlement with one or more alliance parties. But the distance of money remains high, according to the latest data available from the negotiations over six billion between government bid of 7.3 billion and the common M-, C- and KD bid of 13, 7 billion for the years 2016-20.

• The second is put forward a bill without the support of the Alliance and if so take further negotiations when the proposal is discussed in the Defence Committee, a clear departure from the spirit of the December agreement on a broad agreement across block boundaries on defense. The government can then still, perhaps, get to an agreement with the Alliance.

Otherwise you become totally dependent on the Left Party’s support. At the same time than men still lose a vote in Parliament on the Alliance parties make a joint reservation which also gets the Sweden Democrats’ support.

• The third is that is to take a break and negotiate further with a view to agree with the Alliance’s three parties in October.

SvD have previously reported that the Moderate Party leader Anna Kinberg Batra and Centre Party leader Annie Loof called for a “serious final offer” from the government, both in terms of funding levels and a study of the advantages and disadvantages of a Swedish NATO membership.

But the defense minister would not say if there is such a final offer on the table.

– I’m not saying what I have for the image of the negotiations or how positions will out.

Have you put a final offer?

– What we have done and not done and who did what and said what I will not comment.

According to information provided to SvD there are frictions internally in government both in terms of funding levels, where Finance Minister Magdalena Andersson and the Green Party are received and NATO issue where the Foreign Wallström not want to let through clear directives for an investigation.

counter-question that the government must ask themselves is what a breakdown in defense negotiations might be the consequences for the December agreement in its entirety.