[4] Historically, the Moderate Party (M), Christian Democrats (KD) and Liberals (L) were part of the Alliance for Sweden, a centre-right coalition that governed the country from 2006 to 2014.

The Sweden Democrats (SD), a right wing populist party with far right roots to which all parliamentary parties applied a cordon sanitaire until Ulf Kristersson broke it after the 2018 Swedish general election as the only way for the right-wing bloc to oust the left-wing bloc led by the Swedish Social Democratic Party (S),[5] have not sat in a government and have not been involved in the formation of a government but had participated in state budget talks with M and KD for the first time in Autumn 2021,[6][7] and then got the budget through.

[8] With the agreement, named after the place where it was negotiated, this is the first time SD have formalised influence over a government's policy.

The agreement has led to the direction of the economic policy being to counteract unemployment and strengthen Sweden's ability to grow.

Corporate taxation must be competitive and companies must have good incentives to invest in research and be given a better opportunity to attract and retain key competence.

These include, among other things, double punishment for criminal gangs, criminalisation of participation in criminal gangs, more effective secret means of coercion, visitation zones, anonymous witnesses, residence bans, abolition of penalty discounts for those over 18 and abolition of quantity discount.

A complete and thorough review of the criminal legislation is being carried out with the aim of, among other things, toughening the punishment for violent and sexual crimes.

Swedish migration must be adjusted to the minimum level according to European Union law, while maintaining international conventions, including the right to asylum.

The conditions for investments in nuclear power must be strengthened through, among other things, government credit guarantees of SEK 400 billion.

An inquiry is appointed with the task of analysing and elucidating the pros and cons, as well as making proposals on the possibilities of introducing partial or full state ownership in the long term.

Investments in more special teachers, smaller teaching groups and clearer rules to establish order in the classrooms.

[21] Amnesty International stated that several of the points "risk seriously harming the principles of the rule of law and other fundamental human rights," adding that it "demonstrates an intent to create divisions between people and to stigmatise non-Swedish citizens.

[23] A group of five environmental NGOs groups (Klimatkollen, the World Wide Fund for Nature, ClimateView, the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation, and Our Children’s Climate) co-wrote a statement saying that the climate provisions of the agreement could lead to a significant increase in greenhouse emissions, "equivalent to half of Sweden’s annual emissions" over four years, adding that environmental policy was "full speed backwards.

"[24] Isabella Lövin, chair of the Stockholm Environment Institute, stated that environmental policy had been "set back 35 years.

"[25] ActionAid International warned that the Agreement represented "a major deprioritisation in matters that should warrant the highest degree of concern - girls' and women's rights, and climate justice.

"[27] The participation of the Liberals in a government agreement with the Sweden Democrats caused a level of controversy within the party.

[30] On 20 November 2022, Expressen published leaked comments Liberal leader Johan Pehrson had made in a meeting with party members in which Pehrson referred to the Sweden Democrats as "a brown sludge," referring the Nazi Brownshirts, and claimed that he had prevented "a load of crazy stuff" from being included in the agreement.

"[34] The Swedish Police Union criticised provisions of the Agreement that would limit the right to publicly funded interpreters to only those with residence permits or citizenship, saying that it could negatively impact their ability to interview witnesses.