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More welfare in revised budget

Finance Minister Siv Jensen was offering more state funding for social welfare programs as she rolled out the government's revised state budget on Tuesday. The extra money was widely...

‘Cuts loom without shift away from oil’

Prime Minister Erna Solberg delivered a tough message as her government gathered for its first budget conference of the year on Monday: Major spending cuts...

Coalition open to still taxing wealth

Finance Minister Siv Jensen has indicated for the first time that Norway's conservative government coalition may back away from its efforts to eliminate the country's...

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...

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