Category: Government
The U.S. Senate is now adjourned for the year and will next meet for legislative business at 12:00 p.m on Wednesday, January 3, 2018. For a list of nominees pending on the Executive Calendar but received no action from the Senate, see “Pending Nominations” below. The following executive nominations were approved before the Senators raced out of […]
Source: Diplopundit.net
Category: Government
President Trump will meet with Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg at the White House on Jan. 10, the White House announced Wednesday. “President Trump looks forward to exchanging views on the bilateral ties between the United States and Norway, and how jointly to advance regional and global security, and economic prosperity,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee […]
Source: Washington Times
Category: Food & Beverage
I statsbudsjettenigheten mellom de borgerlige partiene ble Høyre, Frp, Venstre og KrF enige om å øke sjokolade- og sukkervareavgiften med 83 prosent. Både Høyre og Fremskrittspartiet har tidligere lovet å fjerne sukkeravgiften – bare de kom i regjering. Også avgiften på alkoholfrie drikkevarer økes. Her er økningen på rundt 42 prosent. – Dette er et […]
Category: Government
Norway’s tightened mortgage regulations, in place since the start of the year, are working as planned and do not need to be repealed, Prime Minister Erna Solberg told Reuters on Tuesday. The cost of buying a home in Norway hit an all-time high in early 2017 but have since fallen, triggering fears among some investors […]
Source: Reuters
Category: Government
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)—a proposed agreement between the United States and the European Union—hasn’t made many headlines lately and some speculated that it would suffer the same fate as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), from which President Donald Trump withdrew in the early days of his presidency. But US Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross […]
Source: Global Tade Mag