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A new Norwegian government

Today Jens Stoltenberg presented his new administration, his second administration, 10 women and 10 men. I mostly curios on two, Trond Giske becomes Minister of Trade and Industry and Kristin Halvorsen will be the Minister of Education and Research.

They have a lot of challenges ahead, especially in those two areas and it will be exciting too see how those two will handle their new responsibilities. It’s not doubt that they are two of the most profiled and ‘doer’-oriented politicians we have in Norway today.

The Norwegian government and Aker

Yet again, the Red/Green coaliation shows all the signs of making political harakiri, this time the Aker-case. The oppsition have happy days, poundering the message that the Government shouldn’t be involved in business, the way we do here in Norway, which means highly imvolvmeny from the state in different areas, especially related towards oil/energy and finance.
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Kjell Inge Røkke has done a deal which is great for him, and now the Governments representative Berit Kjøll is doing what she can to try to convince us that she has been fooled. Trust me, this thing has just started, and somebodys gonna’ fall!

Political ads on TV in Norway still banned, or?

Despite the fact that the Norwegian government won’t appose the verdict in the European Court of Human Rights, regarding the political ads on TV, the minister of Culture, Trond Giske still says no!
They are supposed to allow the smaller parties and I really don’t know how they can explain this – for real. You allow something, is this really the way of using the law. I thought we we’re equal…

My guess is that there will be a lot of discussion about it, and parties will find ‘creative’ ways of still making their ads.

This is the first try from Høyre in this matter: