Since the acute crisis had been triggered by difficulties in obtaining international finance, great pains were taken to give a transparent picture of how the crisis was being managed, so as to gain the confidence of Sweden’s creditors. This applied both to the account of the magnitude of the banking problems and to the content of the bank guarantee.
Already from the very beginning, when the initiatives for euro implementation in our country were only emerging, the NBS several times declared its support for the entry into the monetary union as soon as practicable.