Tag: state budget
Plastic bag tax draws unexpected critics
The youth organization for the conservative Progress Party (FpU) has become the latest to bash its own government's proposed tax on plastic bags. FpU leader Atle...
Shopping bag tax sets off new row
NEWS ANALYSIS: A new tax on shopping bags in Norway suddenly crept into last week's difficult state budget negotiations, and it has since kicked up nearly...
Highlights of the budget compromise
The top politicians who emerged from a long night of budget talks wearily starting summing up key settlements at a press conference Friday morning....
Voters desert coalition parties
After finally winning government power for the first time in its 40-year history last year, Progress Party leader Siv Jensen has since seen voters desert the...
Budget pact wards off coalition crisis
UPDATED: Norway's minority government coalition survived a battle over its first proposed state budget without, for example, having to go along with the Liberal...
Embattled Erna keen to hang on
NEWS ANALYSIS: It's been 200 years since Norway received its first prime minister, albeit as part of its unhappy union with Sweden at the time. While...
Government accused of being ‘greedy’
Knut Arild Hareide, head of the small Christian Democrats party, still wasn't satisfied with the minority government's latest state budget compromises on Monday. Hareide, desperately...
Budget battlers call for a ‘time out’
Top Norwegian politicians have called a ceasefire in the battle over the minority government's proposed state budget for 2015. The government has five days...
Party leaders take over budget talks
A week of negotiations over the government's proposed state budget collapsed on Tuesday, when representatives from the two government coalition parties and their two...
Universities reject tuition proposal
Several of Norway's largest universities are rejecting a state budget proposal that would call on them to start charging tuition fees to foreign students...
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