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  • Norway increases support for reconstruction efforts in Ukraine

    23/04/2025 Press release Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Office of the Prime Minister

    Norway is providing a new contribution of NOK 2.4 billion to the World Bank’s Ukraine Relief, Recovery, Reconstruction and Reform Fund (URTF), a multi-donor trust fund that channels funding to meet critical needs in Ukraine during the war, including

  • Revised National Budget 2025: Key figures in the Revised National Budget 2025

    15/05/2025 Press release Ministry of Finance

    To ensure equal access to information that might be market sensitive, the Ministry of Finance publishes selected key figures prior to presenting the Revised National Budget at 10:45 a.m. More detailed forecasts will be published in the Revised

  • Changes among the state secretaries

    01/12/2023 Press release Office of the Prime Minister

    In today’s Council of State, The King has honourably discharged Mr. Tomas Norvoll as state secretary to Minister of Labour and Social Inclusion, Ms. Tonje Brenna. Mr. Norvoll is appointed again as state secretary to Minister of Digitalisation and

  • Stepping Up Efforts Against Forest Crime

    13/11/2025 News story Ministry of Climate and Environment

    Environmental crime is among the world’s most profitable forms of organized crime and a serious threat to climate, nature, and people. Norway is now strengthening its cooperation with the UN and INTERPOL to combat illegal tropical deforestation.

  • Norway signs agreement with Cyprus on EEA and Norway Grants

    06/11/2025 Press release Ministry of Foreign Affairs

    Norway signed an agreement in Cyprus today on a new funding period for the EEA and Norway Grants.

  • Launching Mapping of Strategic and Critical Value Chains

    01/10/2025 Press release Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries

    The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries is taking steps to strengthen the role of industry in preparedness and security - assigning a new task to Prosess21 and the Research Council of Norway.

  • Revised National Budget: Sound economic governance

    12/05/2022 Press release Ministry of Finance

    The Norwegian economy is unusually strong and employment is at a record low. At the same time, however, Omicron, high electricity prices and war in Europe have necessitated unforeseen financial allocations. In the Revised Budget, the government has

  • Amendment to the 2022 Fiscal Budget Proposal: A new and fairer course for the whole of Norway

    08/11/2021 Press release Ministry of Finance

    Opportunities throughout the country, higher employment, labour market security, a fairer distribution of income and wealth and fairer climate policies are key priorities in the new government's proposed changes to the 2022 budget.

  • Joint statement on climate

    06/05/2022 News story Office of the Prime Minister, Ministry of Climate and Environment, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries

    The text of the following readout was released by the Governments of the United States of America and Norway on the occasion of Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry’s visit to Oslo, Norway.

  • The Revised National Budget: Government proposes record-high aid budget of NOK 44.9 billion

    12/05/2022 Press release Ministry of Foreign Affairs

    ‘The war in Ukraine is having impacts across the globe. The number of people who have been displaced is rising and more people than ever before do not have enough to eat. The Government is proposing an increase of NOK 3.6 billion in the aid budget,

  • New guarantee initiative to generate investments in renewable energy in developing countries

    05/11/2021 Press release Ministry of Foreign Affairs

    Norway is launching cooperation for the provision of guarantees to promote investment in renewable energy in developing countries. ‘This new initiative represents a significant boost to Norway’s global efforts to address climate change and increase

  • Norwegian exports of defence-related products in 2021

    03/06/2022 Press release Ministry of Foreign Affairs

    The Government has presented the annual white paper on Norwegian exports of defence-related products. In 2021, Norwegian companies exported arms and military equipment worth around NOK 6.3 billion, as compared with NOK 6.7 billion in 2020.

  • Combating piracy in the world’s most dangerous waters

    31/05/2022 Press release Ministry of Foreign Affairs

    The UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution on combating piracy in West Africa. Norway and Ghana introduced the initiative and led the negotiation process leading up to the resolution.

  • Joint statement one year after the military takeover in Sudan

    24/10/2022 News story Ministry of Foreign Affairs

    As the Sudanese people prepare to mark the one-year anniversary of the military takeover, Canada, the European Union, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United

  • Changes among the state secretaries

    04/11/2022 Press release Office of the Prime Minister

    In today’s Council of State, The King has appointed Mr. Tom Kalsås as state secretary to Minister of Transport, Mr. Jon-Ivar Nygård.

  • Booster dose to be offered to all adults

    15/11/2021 Press release Office of the Prime Minister, Ministry of Health and Care Services

    The Norwegian Government is making provisions to offer all people over the age of 18 a booster dose.

  • Norway launches climate commitments in the health field

    10/11/2021 News story Ministry of Health and Care Services

    During the UN’s Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, COP26, Norway has today joined the Climate Conference’s Health Programme. The Health Programme has launched several measures to strengthen health systems to enable them to tackle climate change.

  • Change in the mandate for the committee on long-term perspectives for the Government Pension Fund Global

    09/11/2021 Press release Ministry of Finance

    The Government has decided to change the mandate for the committee appointed to review which developments internationally and in the financial markets may affect risk and return in the Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG) and assess what

  • Prime Minister Støre meeting the King and Queen of the Netherlands

    10/11/2021 News story Office of the Prime Minister

    Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre had a constructive meeting with Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima of the Netherlands today. The close and mutually beneficial relationship between the two countries was the focus of the discussion.

  • One year after the parliamentary elections, Norway reiterates its condemnation of the military coup

    08/11/2021 News story Ministry of Foreign Affairs

    On this day in 2020, parliamentary elections were held in Myanmar. In the elections, the people of Myanmar clearly expressed their will to continue on the path of democratic reform.

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