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  • National Budget 2024: Creating more training posts to solve the GP crisis

    11/10/2023 News story Ministry of Health and Care Services

    ‘In order to solve the GP crisis, we need more doctors to be trained and specialise in general practice. With 66 new positions for specialised doctors next year, we are providing the highest ever number of posts,’ says Ingvild Kjerkol, Minister of

  • Identification of systemically important institutions

    29/09/2023 News story Ministry of Finance

    The Ministry of Finance has today decided that DNB ASA, Kommunalbanken AS, Nordea Eiendomskreditt AS and Sparebank 1 SR-Bank ASA shall be identified as systemically important institutions in Norway, as recommended by the Norwegian FSA.

  • Government budget 2024: Norway will continue to receive patients from Ukraine

    06/10/2023 News story Ministry of Health and Care Services

    The government has proposed a grant of NOK 200 million in 2024 to support the treatment of patients from Ukraine in Norwegian hospitals. To date, more than 300 patients have arrived in Norway as part of the medevac scheme. Since the start of the war

  • Prime Minister congratulates Narges Mohammadi on Nobel Peace Prize

    06/10/2023 Press release Office of the Prime Minister

    ‘On behalf of the Norwegian Government, I would like to congratulate the winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, Narges Mohammadi from Iran. In its announcement, the Norwegian Nobel Committee highlighted Ms Mohammadi’s fight against the oppression

  • Norway remains committed to an open, global, and free Internet

    08/10/2023 Press release Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development

    Norway is actively engaged in Internet Governance and cooperates closely with other states and actors. The overall vision is that the Internet needs to continue to be an open and free arena where everyone can freely give and receive information and

  • Norway to establish new ministry

    16/10/2023 Press release Office of the Prime Minister

    The King in Council has today announced the establishment of a new ministry, the Ministry of Digitalisation and Public Governance, to be headed by Ms Karianne O. Tung.

  • Norway enters into green partnership with UK

    13/10/2023 News story Office of the Prime Minister, Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries

    Norway and the UK have agreed to establish a Green Industrial Partnership intended to promote closer economic cooperation relating to the green transition. Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre and UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak met today in Gotland in

  • Norway to help citizens to fly home

    11/10/2023 Press release Ministry of Foreign Affairs

    Norway is now arranging for an aircraft to transport Norwegian citizens home from Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv.

  • Statement by Minister of Foreign Affairs Anniken Huitfeldt on the situation in Israel and Palestine

    12/10/2023 News story Ministry of Foreign Affairs

    I am deeply alarmed by the dramatic escalation in Israel and Gaza. The high number of people killed and injured is shocking. It is heartbreaking that hundreds of children have lost their lives in recent days, said Minister of Foreign Affairs Anniken

  • Norway announces 22 million USD million for political risk insurance via the World Bank to support reconstruction of Ukraine

    14/10/2023 News story Ministry of Foreign Affairs

    Minister of International Development Anne Beathe Tvinnereim is taking part in the Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund in Marrakesh on 11-13 October. Norway announced at the meetings that it will provide 22

  • Statement by Minister of Foreign Affairs Espen Barth Eide following reports of air strike on Gaza hospital

    17/10/2023 News story Ministry of Foreign Affairs

    I am deeply worried about the reported attack on a hospital in Gaza tonight with hundreds of civilian casualties. Hospitals must be protected under international humanitarian law and attacks against them are illegal. Civilians and health care

  • Joint Statement from the Venezuela Dialogue and Negotiation Process

    17/10/2023 News story Ministry of Foreign Affairs

    In accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding signed on 13 August 2021 in Mexico City, the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the Unitary Platform of Venezuela have resumed the Venezuela Dialogue and Negotiation Process on

  • Media accreditation for the 75th Session of the Nordic Council

    23/10/2023 Press release Ministry of Foreign Affairs

    From 30 October to 2 November, the Nordic Council meets in Oslo. Several members of the Norwegian government will participate.

  • ‘Civilians must be protected’

    18/10/2023 Press release Ministry of Foreign Affairs

    ‘I am shocked and deeply disturbed by the killing of hundreds of people at the Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza last night. Such an attack on sick people, children, healthcare workers and other civilians is intolerable. I wish to express my profound

  • Norway increases support to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees

    21/10/2023 Press release Ministry of Foreign Affairs

    ‘It gives hope that a first convoy of emergency aid has entered Gaza today. It is urgent to get food, water and medicine to civilians. The situation in Gaza is turning into a humanitarian catastrophe. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for

  • New ambassadors from Bahrain and Nepal

    19/10/2023 News story Ministry of Foreign Affairs

    Two ambassadors presented their letters of credence to His Majesty King Harald V on 19 October 2023:

  • Mehl in Luxembourg: We must safeguard Norway in an unsafe world

    19/10/2023 Press release Ministry of Justice and Public Security

    On Thursday, 19 October, Minister of Justice and Public Security Emilie Enger Mehl participated in the meeting of the Justice and Home Affairs Council in Luxembourg. Among others, the agenda included measures to strengthen the EU’s security in light

  • Statement on Israel and Palestine

    25/10/2023 Press release Ministry of Foreign Affairs

    As Chair of AHLC (Ad Hoc Liaison Committee) donor group, Norway hosted a virtual meeting with our international partners today to discuss the crisis in Israel and Palestine.

  • Ambassador Brattested's remarks to the Security Council: The Situation in the Middle East

    25/10/2023 Speech/statement Ministry of Foreign Affairs

    Statement by Ambassador Merete Fjeld Brattested in the Security Council on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question, 24 October 2023.

  • Longer stays at reception centres, finding work more quickly

    24/10/2023 Press release Ministry of Justice and Public Security, Ministry of Labour and Social Inclusion

    The high number of displaced Ukrainians arriving in Norway means that the length of stay in asylum reception centres is set to rise. At the same time, the Government wants to make improvements to the introduction programme to help more people find

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