In the spring amendment budget in April, the message came that at least SEK 9.2 billion would be transferred, deducted, from the development assistance budget to pay for the reception of Ukrainian refugees in Sweden.

Only humanitarian aid, simply put disaster relief, would be protected from settlements.

The new message is that 7.9 billion will be deducted.

According to the government, the change is due to the fact that not as many people have come from Ukraine as was first thought.

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For Sida, the announcement with the spring amendment budget meant an order from the government that 6.9 billion of a budget of up to 28 billion could not be used.

The assistance that goes through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was limited by 3.2 billion.

Through today's government decision, it is instead 5.6 billion that Sida is not allowed to use.

- But it is still the case that it is 5.6 billion lower compared to the beginning of this year, so we still see that it is the poorest who will be affected by these limit restrictions, says Marie Ottosson, CEO of Sida.

The government also decided on an increased authorization limit of SEK 1.9 billion, from around SEK 39.5 billion to SEK 41.5 billion - which will enable Sida to postpone payments until next year.

- It is good.

This means that we do not have to renegotiate as many agreements as we would have had to do otherwise, says Ottosson.

Hard criticism of the government

The government has received harsh criticism from many aid organizations for the large settlements and several of them have stated that Sweden would be the single largest recipient country for Swedish aid.

In connection with the large environmental conference, the government was specifically criticized for, for example, taking 730 million of the money that would go to the Global Environmental Fund to have to Ukrainians who have fled their homeland.

Matilda Ernkrans says that the government may put back more money, ie reduce the settlements even more.

She emphasizes that there will be a new forecast of the reception of refugees from the Swedish Migration Board in July and that there may then be further relief.

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