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Government accused of ‘budget bluff’

The fallout continues after Norway's finance minister, Trygve Slagsvold Vedum, formally presented the government's state budget proposal for next year. He and Labour Prime...

Government launches a war on crime

Norway's Labour-Center government has launched a war on crime, after what it calls a "brutal" summer marked by stabbings, shootings and gang wars, much...

Revised state budget raids Oil Fund again, and wealthy regions

Norway's left-center government wants to spend an extra NOK 20 billion this year to further boost defense, send more financial aid to Ukraine and...

Norway tries to rein in tax refugees

Norway's left-center government is taking new steps to try to keep wealthy taxpayers from moving their fortunes abroad. Stricter rules are aimed at prohibiting...

Norway’s state budget ‘irresponsible’

Norwegian Finance Minister Trygve Slagsvold Vedum is being accused of locking the country into an "irresponsible" boost in public spending, after his minority Labour-Center...

Defense wins most in new state budget

They're not getting as much as recommended or requested, but Norwegian defense officials can at least look forward to a 20 percent increase in...

Finance minister raids Oil Fund after all

So much for the "tight" state budget that Finance Minister Trygve Slagsvold Vedum presented to the Norwegian Parliament last fall. After seriously under-estimating inflation...

Finance minister behind budget blunder

Norwegian Finance Minister Trygve Slagsvold Vedum and his ministry colleagues need to rewrite much of their state budget for 2023, because they underestimated inflation...

Government avoids budget crisis

After weeks of intense negotiations, Norway's Labour-led minority government finally won support for a state budget that will now take even more from the...

New ‘salmon tax’ stirs up a storm

Of all the new and higher taxes proposed in the Norwegian government's highly contested state budget, none has grabbed more attention than the one...
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