Stefan Löfven (S) is a cautious general who rarely does more than is necessary when replacing the Minister of State. This was also the case this time when the gaps after Ylva Johansson (S) and Margot Wallström (S) were to be filled.

The new Labor Minister Eva Nordmark (S) has been in the Minister's speculation for several years, so that she now takes office in the government was no trifle. What is a bit surprising, however, is that Stefan Löfven has set a completely fresh Cabinet of Ministers to handle all the tricky issues that lie on the Ministry of Labor's table in the future.

The employment service must be redone

On the one hand, the Employment Service will be fundamentally changed when private actors take over the mediation of jobs, and on the other, the labor law must be changed through increased turn-around rules in the Employment Protection Act (LAS). Heart issues for the Center Party - but legislating on changed turnaround rules is a red sign for the workers' movement. So also for Eva Nordmark, who until today has been chairman of TCO. Here, of course, Stefan Löfven hopes that precisely her union background can help the parties succeed in agreeing on labor law so that the government does not have to implement the proposal in the January agreement.

Eva Nordmark is, despite her objections to certain issues, a warm supporter of government cooperation and has a good relationship with both government support parties. Unlike most of the Social Democrats, she applauded when it became clear that the Liberals had passed their demand for abolished tax.

Ann Linde has no party political background

With Ann Linde (S) as Foreign Minister Stefan Löfven needed a new Foreign Trade Minister and here the choice fell on the completely unknown Anna Hallberg (S). She has no party political background but became a member of the Social Democrats only after being asked to become a minister. Certainly an unproven card in a situation where the world is facing a looming trade war.

Three new government ministers in a smaller government formation - but otherwise there was a lot of news. An investment in service offices in depopulation municipalities was to serve as a fund for the prime minister's new craze to reduce the gap between city and country. An increasingly important political issue, not least for a prime minister who wants to deepen and broaden cooperation with the Center Party.

"Wide catalog of promises"

Otherwise, the focus was on waiting for gang crime, welfare, jobs and the climate. A broad catalog of promises and hopes that are so often found in a government declaration. But any coherent story or vision was as difficult to find now as it was in January. The main reason, after all, is that the government declaration of necessity becomes a kind of concoction of four parties' heart issues - parties that are really very far apart, both in economic and labor market policy.

Much that is blatant in the Social Democracy

And here there is a lot of flames in the social democracy. Unlocked turnaround rules, lower taxation for high-income earners and freer hiring in new production are reforms that the Social Democrats chose to fight. Now they will become a reality, which risks becoming a costly history for a party already lost among workers, among young people and in rural areas. Requirements have come from both LO, SSU and Tankesmedjan The time for the January agreement to be renegotiated.

But that will not happen - Stefan Löfven's goal is, as you know, to deepen and broaden his middle collaboration.