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The Netherlands unveils €1.2 billion Ukraine support package, with bigger role for Dutch companies

Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation Minister Sjoerd Sjoerdsma and VNO-NCW chairman Coen van Oostrom in Kyiv. / photo: YT

The Hague is committing €1.2 billion in non-military support to Ukraine over the next three years, with energy security and reconstruction at the heart of the package. But the plans announced by Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation Minister Sjoerd Sjoerdsma in Kyiv also reveal a second Dutch priority: making sure Dutch companies secure a place in Ukraine’s reconstruction.

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