Foreign aid is key to defending democratic values, says Norway’s development minister

Exclusive: Surviving a mass shooting 2011, during Norway’s worst terror attack, left Åsmund Aukrust with a firm belief in using politics to do good in the world. Now the country’s development minister, he tells Nick Ferris why Norway has kept foreign aid at one per cent of national spending, even as other countries have slashed their aid budgets while wars rage in the Middle East and Ukraine

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