Category: Defense / Security
Norway, which shares an Arctic border with Russia, lacks a “credible plan” how to meet NATO’s spending target, U.S. President Donald Trump said in a letter to the country’s prime minister, the Norwegian daily VG reported on Tuesday. Oil-rich Norway has committed to buy more than 50 F-35 fighter jets from Lockheed Martin as part […]
Source: Reuters & VG
Published: April 25, 2024
Category: Government
Norway, Europe’s largest producer of aluminum, is counting its blessings that only a minuscule amount of the metal it ships abroad is sold to the U.S. About 97% of Norway’s 31.9 billion kroner ($4 billion) in aluminum exports last year to European markets, while only 0.2 percent was sent to the U.S., Statistics Norway said […]
Source: Bloomberg
Published: December 6, 2018
Category: Government
Stortingets utenriks- og forsvarskomité, under ledelse av Anniken Huitfeldt, besøker New York 17.–19. juni og Washington DC 19.–21. juni. I New York omfatter programmet møter i FN med blant annet FNs barnefond (UNICEF), FNs befolkningsfond (UNFPA), FNs avdeling for fredsbevarende operasjoner (DPKO), FNs sentrale humanitære samordningsenhet (OCHA) og FNs Høykommisær for menneskerettigheter (OHCHR). Videre besøker komiteen […]
Source: Stortingets utenriks- og forsvarskomité
Published: April 25, 2024
Category: Government
‘In Norway’s view, the additional tariffs imposed by the US on steel and aluminium imports are a violation of the WTO rules. Today we have therefore requested dispute settlement consultations with the US in the WTO. The WTO and its dispute settlement system is the established forum for handling disagreements about trade policy,’ said Minister […]
Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Published: December 6, 2018
Category: Government
It was an image that, in its Rockwellian presentation and characters, seemed to capture an emerging era. European leaders stood arrayed on one side of a narrow conference room table, leaning in. On the other side: President Trump, seated alone, his arms folded. The photo, released Saturday on German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Instagram account and […]
Source: The Washington Post
Published: October 6, 2018