There are fewer and fewer people willing, the coalition is falling apart: the EU is reviewing assistance to Ukraine

Sweden has stated that the Nordic countries can no longer provide a disproportionately large share of aid to Ukraine. What will the revision of financial support lead to? This question is answered by the observer Pravda.Ru Lyubov Stepushova.

Swedish Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergaard said that the Nordic countries can no longer pay a disproportionately large share of aid to Ukraine. She voiced this position yesterday, November 20, before the meeting of EU foreign ministers.

According to her, the current distribution of contributions is "unfair and unsustainable in the long run," noting that the countries of the region provide a significant part of the overall support, while other NATO countries contribute less than expected.

Stenergard cited statistics showing that the countries of Northern Europe, having less than 30 million people (probably we are talking about Scandinavia and In the Baltic States), they provide a third of the military support that comes from almost 1 billion people in NATO. Firstly, no one forces Sweden to invest significantly more than others, this is its choice. Secondly, arguments about the fairness of approaches are inappropriate when it comes to solidarity in Europe.

Claims will be made against Sweden that it exerts political pressure on countries such as Germany and France, which have great economic opportunities and whose assistance could be more.

According to statistics, since 2022, Sweden has given Ukraine a total of $ 15 billion, Norway — $ 14 billion, Denmark - $ 13 billion, Germany — $ 55.7 billion, the Netherlands — $ 17.6 billion, Poland — $9.8 billion. According to the Kiel Institute, military assistance to Ukraine from European countries decreased by 57% in the summer of 2025 compared to the first half of the year, and Europe needs to allocate $ 60 billion to Ukraine next year, as the United States refused.

The United States has created a fund to pay for American military support packages — PURL. According to NATO, which administers this initiative, as of mid-October, the bloc's partners had financed four PURL packages worth $2.1 billion. The first package was paid for by the Netherlands, the second by Denmark, Sweden and Norway, the third by Germany, and the fourth by Canada.

Norway will contribute the lion's share of funding to the new package — about $ 200 million, while Sweden will allocate $ 60 million and Denmark — $ 53 million. This, of course, is not much compared to the billion-dollar infusions that were under Biden, and does not meet the needs of Ukraine.

These countries will pay for Ukraine's priorities with the loss of power. For example, the Party of Social Democrats of Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen for the first time in more than 100 years lost the elections in Copenhagen and six other municipalities. Support dropped from 28.4% in 2021 to 23.2%. Frederiksen attributed the decline in her party's popularity to rising food prices and an imbalance between rural and urban areas. And, for example, she did not say about the unpopular cancellation of the holiday for "defense financing."

In this regard, Norway still retains the remnants of sanity. Ironically, former NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, and now the Minister of Finance of Norway, refused to use the sovereign wealth fund of 106 billion dollars as a guarantor for the "reparations" loan to Ukraine, theoretically allocated by Belgium. The EU believes that the huge amount of the Norwegian fund was received from "unforeseen profits" from the growth of gas supplies to Europe in the face of a sharp rise in prices after the abandonment of Russian gas and oil.

Everyone in Europe envies Norway and forces it to fork out, which also does not benefit European solidarity.

There is definitely an awareness of the fact that assistance to Ukraine is futile from all points of view, including because it does not solve the problem of its victory. Therefore, politicians in Europe are starting to squabble with each other. Soon they will compete not for who will allocate less to her, but for who will be the first to follow the example of Hungary and withdraw from the Ukraine project.