Nordic aid budgets

Sweden: Aid budget to fund losses for Swedish exporters to Ukraine

Sweden continues to expand the private sector’s role in aid. The aid budget for next year proposes increasing both guarantees and Swedfund’s capital base. Aid funds are to be reserved to cover losses incurred by Swedish companies’ exports to Ukraine. Updated.

News September 21, 2023

Danish PM announces EUR 2 billion expansion of IFU, Denmark’s aid-funded investor

After decades of tight financing, the Danish development finance institution IFU can look forward to...

News September 19, 2023

New Finnish government’s budget proposal: aid starts shrinking again

The Finnish government has launched its first budget proposal, initiating a four-year plan to roll back...

News September 05, 2023

Injection of billions revives Danish aid after years of tight budgets

Development Minister Dan Jørgensen strikes back after reporting the lowest Danish aid level in four decades....

News September 04, 2023

Danish development minister summoned to Parliament over record-low aid level

The Foreign Affairs Committee of the Danish Parliament has called in Development Minister Dan Jørgensen...

News August 29, 2023

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Denmark drops out of 0.7% donor club, reveals flaws in Danish aid funding model

Denmark has failed to meet the UN aid benchmark of 0.7 per cent of GNI for the first time in four decades,...

News August 24, 2023

Ville Tavio of Finns Party becomes development minister, cuts and radical shift in Finnish aid

For the first time, a party viewed as being far-right on the political spectrum takes over the aid portfolio...

News June 20, 2023

Foreign ministry foresees backlog in Danish aid

After weeks of silence, the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs has acknowledged that it might well face...

News June 07, 2023

Norwegian aid surpasses 1% of GNI, but the government is still taking heat

Last fall the Norwegian government was heavily criticised after presenting a budget with the lowest aid...

News May 24, 2023

Norwegian development minister takes over humanitarian aid

Norway’s Development Minister Anne Beathe Tvinnereim takes over the responsibility for humanitarian assistance,...

News May 12, 2023

Nordic aid budgets

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