It will be significantly easier for politicians and authorities to classify documents in Sweden as confidential. Already now, the government has classified ministers' share trading so that the minister could not be scrutinized following a suspicion that everything did not go right. The principle of openness has been the basis for the people and journalists to be able to scrutinize the exercise of power by politicians and authorities. Now the saga of the principle of publicity may soon be largely over. Read more here. The Constitutional Committee warns that the new confidentiality rules may cause authorities to seal knowledge of the known negative side effects of medicines as "trade secrets".