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  • Prime Minister Støre joins efforts to increase renewable energy in developing countries

    21/09/2022 Press release Office of the Prime Minister

    Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre has agreed to join the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet. The Alliance aims to provide more people in poor countries with access to electricity through the development of renewable energy solutions to

  • The work for a Palestinian state continues

    22/09/2022 Press release Ministry of Foreign Affairs

    On 22 September, Minister of Foreign Affairs Anniken Huitfeldt chaired a meeting of the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee (AHLC), the international donor group for Palestine, at the UN Headquarters in New York.

  • New ambassadors from Israel, Finland, Lithuania and Sri Lanka

    23/09/2022 News story Ministry of Foreign Affairs

    Four new ambassadors to Norway presented their letters of credence to King Harald  on 22 September 2022.

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    Profits from natural resources will be better distributed

    28/09/2022 Press release Ministry of Finance, Office of the Prime Minister

    Energy producers and the aquaculture industry make billions of kroner on our common resources. The Government is now proposing that more of the value created should go back to society.

  • Increased preparedness on the Norwegian Continental Shelf

    27/09/2022 Press release Ministry of Energy

    Today, the Norwegian Government has decided to heighten the emergency preparedness in relation to infrastructure, onshore and offshore installations on the Norwegian Continental Shelf.

  • High-price contribution on wind and hydropower

    28/09/2022 News story Ministry of Finance

    The Government is proposing to introduce a high-price contribution, with the rate set at 23 per cent of the electricity price in excess of NOK 0.70 per kWh. The contribution is designed as an excise duty payable to the treasury. The tax will be

  • Resource rent tax on onshore wind energy

    28/09/2022 News story Ministry of Finance

    The government proposes the introduction of resource rent tax on onshore wind energy as from 2023. The proposal will be referred for public consultation before the end of the year, and involves the taxation of resource rent at an effective rate of

  • Adjustment of local and county authorities’ general grant

    28/09/2022 News story Ministry of Finance

    The Government proposes a one-year deduction in the general grant to local and county authorities with income from licence power. The proposal applies to local and county authorities in the areas with the highest electricity prices.

  • Note to editors: Foreign Minister Huitfeldt to visit Georgia and Armenia

    11/10/2022 Press release Ministry of Foreign Affairs

    Minister of Foreign Affairs Anniken Huitfeldt will be visiting Georgia and Armenia on 16-19 October.

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    Press Conference with the President of Finland

    10/10/2022 News story Office of the Prime Minister

    The President of Finland, Mr. Sauli Niinistö, is visiting Norway Monday 10 and 11 October. President Niinistö and Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre meets Monday afternoon, and will meet the press about 17.30.

  • Norway to increase support to Ukraine by NOK 10 billion

    01/07/2022 Press release Office of the Prime Minister, Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

    Norway will increase its support to Ukraine by NOK 10 billion over the next two years. The funding will be used for humanitarian assistance and reconstruction efforts in the country, and to provide weapons and budget support to the Ukrainian

  • More European countries approve the use of expired Norwegian passports

    05/07/2022 Press release Ministry of Justice and Public Security

    Norwegian citizens who have not renewed their passports following the pandemic are able to travel to Germany, Iceland, Estonia, and Portugal using their expired passport as identification. This change takes effect today and will apply until 31

  • Norwegian satellites may help developing countries in the fight against illegal fishing

    01/07/2022 Press release Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

    A newly launched UN-report claims that over 1/3 of the worlds fish stocks are suffering from overfishing. Norway will now do more to cooperate with developing countries to solve the problem of illegal fishing.

  • Adjusted production permits for several fields on the Norwegian shelf

    06/07/2022 News story Ministry of Energy

    The Ministry of Petroleum and Energy has approved adjusted production permits for several fields on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). Total sale of gas from NCS is expected at 122 billion standard cubic meters (Sm3) in 2022.

  • Denmark, Iceland and Norway are ready to ratify Finland and Sweden’s accession to NATO

    05/07/2022 News story Office of the Prime Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

    Following today’s signing of the Protocols to the North Atlantic Treaty on the Accession of Finland and Sweden, Denmark, Iceland and Norway are ready to submit their ratification instruments to the Government of the United States of America. With

  • Joint statement on Myanmar

    26/07/2022 News story Ministry of Foreign Affairs

    Joint statement on behalf of the European Union, and the Foreign Ministers of Norway, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, Republic of Korea, the United Kingdom and the United States following the execution of pro-democracy and opposition leaders in Myanmar.

  • Resolution on humanitarian access to Syria renewed

    12/07/2022 Press release Ministry of Foreign Affairs

    ‘I am very pleased that the UN will be able to continue to deliver water, food, medicines and other humanitarian supplies from Türkiye into northwestern Syria. Some 4.1 million people in this area are dependent on the assistance provided under the

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    Invitation to a digital Nordic seminar on inclusion of vulnerable young people 15th September

    09/08/2022 News story Ministry of Labour and Social Inclusion

    The Norwegian Ministry of Labour and Social Inclusion invites to a Nordic digital seminar 15th September on inclusion of young people in work, education and society. The seminar is part of the Norwegian presidency programme for the Nordic Council of

  • Statement on shipment of grain from Odesa

    01/08/2022 News story Ministry of Foreign Affairs

    Today’s shipment of grain from Odesa is an important first step in reducing global food insecurity.

  • Fourteen years since the outbreak of the war between Russia and Georgia

    08/08/2022 News story Ministry of Foreign Affairs

    “The Russian invasion of Georgia in 2008 marked the beginning of a new and more aggressive phase in Russia’s policy regarding its neighbouring countries and the European security architecture. As we are witnessing in Ukraine today, Russia has

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