Norway presented a draft defense budget: they want to increase military spending and continue assistance to Ukraine

The Norwegian government has presented a draft defense budget for 2025. It will increase by approximately $416 million and will amount to 3.4% of GDP.

Details of the budget were published on the Norwegian government website.

Excluding support from Ukraine, the defense budget would be about $11.1 billion. For comparison, in 2021 the defense budget was about $6.5 billion.

The government proposes to continue emergency support to Ukraine from 2025 under the Nansen program. Its total volume in 2026 will be approximately $8.4 billion. Of this, about $6.9 billion is military support.

• The Nansen Support Program is a Norwegian civilian and military support program for the period from 2023 to 2027. The distribution between civilian and military support is determined annually based on Ukraineʼs needs.

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