Former Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg to become Norway’s finance minister

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According to Former NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, in order to surprise the frontline of Norwegian policy as the Minister of Finance, as they are familiar with the northern country in the middle of the US-EU trade.

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He served as NATO Head Until last year, a decade known for his good relations with US President Donald Trump, Sweden and Finland to reach a military bloc in 2022 Ukraine’s large-scale invasion.

One of the first jobs in Stolthenberg will be a Norwegian prospect of dealing, which is not a member of the EU, it is possible that they can hit both Brussels and Washington.

This comes at the same time as energy intensive discussions that last week The government of the previous coalition fell Does Norway have to keep its electricity more for it to reduce consumer prices or to export it to the EU and in the UK? Future relationships With Brussels.

Stoltenberg was the charismatic leader of the one-time dominant work party of Norway for more than a decade, until 2014, NATO was assumed. Extension in NATO.

His role will now be the fortune of the working party sliping a working party before the parliamentary elections, as well as to deal with the problems between Oslo and his two main allies.

In NATO, Trump’s whisper was known as Trump Whisper, for the ability to control the unstable US President, praising him for his efforts to increase defense spending in the bloc.

Norway puts the second non-formal GDP target to protect 2 percent of GDP, and mostly last year and in proportion to other countries bordering in Russia, such as Poland, Estonia and Lithuania.

The entrance to the entrance to the Norwegian government is after the coalition of its bilateral minorities collapsed last week to sign a few EU energy instructions. Rural, European Central Party, under the leadership of the former Minister of Finance, try to leave, decided to leave, a new, more defensive training is needed for Norway.

Labor, led by Stoltenberg’s friend, Prime Minister Jon Jonas Gahig Stebre, will now be regulated until the September elections and has made several new electricity offers, including new interconnected exports to Europe.

The last problem is especially contradictory in Oslo and Brussels. The next year, two interconnected electricity from Norway, but this was a fury in Denmark, Sweden and the EU.