Category: Accounting / Financial
Norway’s economic recovery continued in the fourth quarter led by rising consumer spending and investments while a report showed inflation unexpectedly slowed at the start of the year. Mainland economic growth, which excludes oil and shipping, expanded by 0.6 percent in fourth quarter, down from a revised 0.7 percent in the prior period, Statistics Norway […]
Source: Bloomberg
Category: Government
On Thursday, February 8, 2018, U.S. Ambassador Kenneth J. Braithwaite presented his credentials to Norway’s Head of State, His Majesty King Harald V, and was thereby formally accredited as U.S. Ambassador to Norway. Newly-appointed ambassadors to Norway present their credentials to the King at a formal audience. The formality of the time-honored ceremony, which harks back to […]
Source: US Embassy
Category: Culture / Lifestyle
Many people ask us when they will be able to regain their Norwegian citizenship. There’s still a way to go, but here’s an overview of the process ahead so you can prepare. The work on changing the law and allowing dual citizenship is in the pipeline. It’s still unclear when such a change will be […]
Source: Norwegians World Wide
Category: Government
By Kåre R. Aas, Ambassador of Norway to the United States. “What would we have done without the sea – should we have carried the boats?” This old joke among fishermen in northern Norway tells us something about the importance of the oceans — for the fishermen themselves, obviously, but also for the rest of us. At the World Economic Forum in Davos last […]
Source: Norway.no
Category: Government
Dagen etter at statsminister Erna Solberg sist uke besøkte Det hvite hus, skapte president Donald Trump overskrifter ved å stille spørsmål om hvorfor USA ikke tar inn innvandrere fra Norge i stedet for fra afrikanske drittland – “shithole countries”. Nå mener Solberg at USA heller bør glede seg over sin immigrasjonssuksess. – Dette er en […]
Source: Dagens Næringsliv