Tag: budget
Budget removes source of underemployment
The conservative government's budget proposal delivered today includes NOK 60 million to help finance high school for immigrants in Norway whose own high school...
Budget blasted as not ‘green enough’
Norway's conservative minority government was immediately attacked after rolling out its new state budget for 2017. Government ministers were once again accused of "greenwashing" the...
Oil fuels a New Deal for Norway
Norway's Finance Minister Siv Jensen unveiled what she called a "responsible" state budget for 2017 on Thursday "that will steer us through a demanding time." It...
Highlights of the proposed state budget
Norway's state budget is considered the country's most important document in terms of steering Norwegian politics and the country's economy. Its formal presentation by the...
Better numbers can cheer government
As the price of Norway's crude oil broke through the USD 50 mark this week, the value of the country's currency also rose. Finance...
Battles fly from boxing to budget
NEWS ANALYSIS/UPDATED: It's entirely unclear whether Prime Minister Erna Solberg and her government will still be standing when Norway's Parliament re-opens next autumn. Not...
Revised national budget settled
The Conservative/Progress government managed to secure a majority for its revised national budget on Thursday after winning the support of its cooperating parties, the...
Revised budget dips into oil fund
Finance Minister Siv Jensen unveiled her revised budget on Wednesday, which included a NOK 1.9 billion (USD 320 million) increase in spending of Norway's...
Budget talks set stage for Jensen
NEWS ANALYSIS: Siv Jensen was making her debut this week as her party's first-ever finance minister at the government's deceptively festive annual launch of...
Breakthrough as budget talks end
Norway's new conservative government won the budget backing it needed on Friday from its two centrist "support parties" in Parliament. After a week of...
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