Poltics

As the Government began their annnual budget conference, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said he is pleased with the development of the Norwegian economy, but sees challenges ahead in the work to form the budget for 2014.

The government coalition and the opposition parties on Tuesday joined in a unanimous vote in Parliament, acccepting the report which criticised all that failed on July 22nd 2011.

In its latest report, the Norwegian Intelligence Service concludes that militant Islamism remains the largest terror threat against Norway and its interests.

In his foreign policy address to Parliament (Stortinget), Foreign Affairs Minister Espen Barth Eide said that we are living in a time of transition, a time of global changes in terms of power and influence.

The leader of the Conservative Party (Høyre), Erna Solberg has presented the party's arguments for a reduction of the Capital Tx. Approximately 684,000 Norwegian taxpayers pay capital tax on their net worth today, acording to Solberg,

The Conservative Party (Høyre) now has the support of 36.1 per cent of the electorate, up 3.9 percentage points from January, according to TNS Gallup's latest poll, made for TV2.

Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg (Labour) says to NRK TV News that he supports his party's call for an impact assessment study of oil exploration in the waters off Lofoten.

Minister for Industry and Trade Trond Giske has called a rushed meeting with representatives for Norwegian industry to discuss risks and security for Norwegian firms operating abroad.

In a statement Thursday evening on in the situation at the Statoil/BP gas plant in Algeria, Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said the situation was still unclear:

Low fare airline Norwegian (Norwegian Air Shuttle AS) has argued that they should be permitted to hire Asian staff on their flights outside the EEC in order to protect themselves against foreign competitors.

Norway condemns the execution of a servant girl in Saudi Arabia this week. Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide says he is shocked by the execution.

The Conservative Party (Høyre) is Norway's largest political party, according to Norstat's latest poll, made for NRK. The party is now supported by 33.2 per cent of the electorate, up 2.6 per cent from December.