The Department of Finance has answered several questions from Inatsisartut’s audit committee. This involves statements for money that has not come in or that has been entered in the books incorrectly.
The answers are attached to the committee’s report on the national treasury’s accounts for 2025.
The Department of Finance has answered several questions from Inatsisartut’s audit committee. This involves statements for money that has not come in or that has been entered in the books incorrectly.
The answers are attached to the committee’s report on the national treasury’s accounts for 2025.
Among other things, the department had to elaborate on why Greenland did not receive the highest possible amount of 33.6 million of the support for the field of education, which depends on educational goals.
The reason is that one of the targets in question was only partially met and another target was not met at all.
The result was a payment in 2025 of approximately 27.2 million, i.e. 6.4 million less than the maximum possible.
– The partially met target related to the proportion of 18-year-olds who had completed or were still active in upper secondary education or vocational education, the department states.
Here the target was 39.5 percent, and that was almost achieved with the result 39.2 percent, which counts as half fulfilled. Therefore, only half of the amount linked to the target was paid out.
– The unmet target concerned the degree of completion within five years of the upper secondary education and the vocational education respectively.
– For upper secondary education, the target was a completion rate of 56.5 per cent, while the realized result was 54.0 per cent. For vocational training, the target was 52.0 per cent, while the realized result was 49.6 per cent, writes the ministry.
Both results were also below the level in 2022, which was the starting point of the agreement. Therefore, the money linked to that goal was not paid out.
For the record, the six million is still a small amount when you look at it in relation to the EU’s total education support for Greenland. Most of this support is not linked to the educational goals in question.
The partnership agreement with the EU for the years 2021-2027 is for a total of approximately DKK 1.7 billion, and 90 percent of that money goes to the field of education, according to the proposal for the Finance Act for 2027.
Deviation of over 50 million explained
The Department of Finance also had to explain why 50.8 million less came into the account for income from the partnership agreement with the EU than the Finance Act had anticipated.
According to the department, this is due to money for Green Growth projects. It is another part of Greenland’s cooperation with the EU, and that money must be booked into a specific account.
Firstly, 22.3 million in 2024 was posted to the wrong account due to a human error and only moved in 2025. Second, the Finance Act for 2025 had counted on the year’s Green Growth money of 28.4 million in the same account, even though it belongs elsewhere.
The money has still been duly received from the EU and is now in its proper place.
– This has thus not caused the national treasury any loss, emphasizes the department.
According to the department, the error is due, among other things, to the fact that the transfers from the European Commission can be difficult for the case handlers to see through. The subsequent poll also did not catch the error.
Naalakkersuisut will now look at how to get a more systematic and documented voting of the EU revenues. The department will also take up the matter with the European Commission.
