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DT 14 / 2016

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Sweden fights EU move to let aid pay for military activities

The European Commission wants to use development aid to fund military activities, but has met fierce opposition from Sweden's Development and Climate Minister Isabella Lövin. The EC’s proposal contradicts an agreement of OECD members from earlier this year that explicitly prohibits the use of aid for such purposes. “The EU cannot come a few months later and change it,” she says.

News December 15, 2016

Foreign Ministry tapped aid for nuclear weapons project, misinformed Parliament

Over several years, the Foreign Ministry in Oslo funded a huge Nuclear Weapons Project from the aid budget....

News December 15, 2016

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Asking uncomfortable questions. Degan Ali on NGO neo-colonialism

Somalian civil society advocate Degan Ali has a message for the international humanitarian aid system...

Opinion December 15, 2016

Aims to be an ‘honest broker’ in UN Security Council

Swedish top diplomats hope to influence the agenda of the Security Council as Sweden assumes the presidency...

News December 15, 2016

A wake-up call for aid watchers

The European Commission is pushing to allow aid to be used to fund military activities in developing...

Opinion Editorial December 15, 2016

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While US and China launch competing Mekong initiatives, Sweden stands by MRC

Sweden has decided to renew support for the 20-year-old Mekong River Commission, which it views as being...

News December 15, 2016

Norway holds NOK 600m in Washington for future Guyana energy project

The Inter-American Development Bank continues to hold more than a half a billion crowns in Norwegian...

News December 15, 2016

‘Paradigm shift’ in EU aid

As donors in Europe put more focus on migration and security issues, the EC has presented a new development...

News December 15, 2016

New Finnfund loan boosts resources by 50%

After months of fine tuning the formalities, the decision for a EUR 130 million loan to the aid-funded...

Business December 15, 2016

NGO scrutiny gives Nordic DFIs mixed marks

Among the Nordic development finance institutions, Norfund has the weakest mechanisms for ensuring respect...

Business December 15, 2016

Green tech opportunities in Bangladesh

The Danish Ministry in Dhaka is planning a fact-finding mission to Bangladesh for Danish green tech companies...

Business December 15, 2016

Finnfund invests in peat power plant. ‘Emissions from diesel would be worse,’ study concludes

Finnfund is lending USD 15 million to a 80-megawatt peat power plant in the Gisagara District in Southern...

Business December 15, 2016

Aims for EUR 44 billion in investments

The EU aims to put its investment schemes under a joint umbrella and leverage its resources in a move...

Business December 15, 2016

Facilitator for Finnish twinning

The Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs is hiring a facilitation consultation to assist in the running...

Business December 15, 2016

Real-time evaluation of Mali programme

The Danish Foreign Ministry is tendering a consultancy assignment for a Real-Time Evaluation (RTE) of...

Business December 15, 2016

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