Tag: budget
Good fortune helped ward off cuts
Norway's left-center coalition government could heave a huge sigh of relief when its members had finally agreed on next year's state budget. An extra,...
State budgets for better times ahead
Finance Minister Sigbjørn Johnsen unveiled a new state budget in the Norwegian Parliament on Tuesday that contains no major cuts, a few tax hikes...
Transport sector comes out well
MORE BUDGET DETAILS: The Norwegian government has followed up on plans to boost funding for the country's beleaguered railway and railroad system. State railroad...
Five embassies to close, while others get a boost
Norway's new annual state budget was being rolled out on Tuesday, and Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre's proposals for the next year include the...
Revised state budget cuts spending
Norway's left-center coalition proposed a revised state budget on Tuesday that cuts use of oil revenues by around NOK 17 billion. Some areas, though,...
Budget cuts may not be so big
The government ministers' dreaded annual budget conference doesn't appear to have been as bad as expected. Coaxed and cheered by a singing, poetry-reading Finance...
Budget battle begins, cuts loom
While thousands of people streamed to Holmenkollen in Oslo on Sunday, for a sunny afternoon of ski jumping, Norway's government ministers headed out of...
Police, elderly, roads and trains are biggest budget winners
Norway's re-elected left-center government put forth a surprisingly expansive budget proposal on Tuesday that earmarks billions more in funding for the police, nursing homes,...
State spending soars, along with unemployment
Norway's left-center government coalition unveiled a revised state budget on Friday that calls for spending more of the country's oil income than ever before....
Harder times spur rehab boom
Oslo officials say they intend to take advantage of newly idled construction workers, and launch a barrage of rehabilitation projects in 2009.
The boom...
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