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

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According to people familiar with the former NATO Secretary-General Jens Staltenberg Norwegian politics, the Nordic country has become concerned about being caught in the middle of the US-EU trade.

StaltenbergWho was the Prime Minister of Norway in 2000-01 and 2005-13, the largest petroleum producer in Western Europe on Tuesday will become the finance minister on Tuesday after a row due to EU fuel policy.

He has served as NATO chief For a decade last year, his relations with US President Donald Trump and its relationship with Sweden and Finland into a military alliance, after Russia’s full-scale aggression in Russia in 2022.

One of the first works of Stoltenberg is to deal with Norway’s chances of Norway, which is not a member of the EU, perhaps both Brussels and Washington hit the tariff.

It comes at the same time as intense power controversy last week The previous coalition has confused the government This is a matter of which Norwegie should be exported to the EU and UK to reduce the price for customers for themselves for themselves Future With Brussels.

Stoltenberg was the charismatic leader of the one -time influential Labor Party in Norway for more than a decade until NATO took the role of NATO. He was returning to Norway as the head of the Central Bank in 2022, but he was forced to return the job after taking an extension in NATO.

His role is now stumbling the fate of a Labor Party before the parliamentary elections in September, as well as dealing with the problems between Oslo and its two main allies in the United States and the EU.

Praising him for his attempt to increase defense expenses across the alliance, Stoltenberg became known as “Trump Whipper” during his time in NATO.

Norway only last year was set to meet 2 percent of NATO’s informal goals in defense, and spent proportally proportionally less than other countries in Russia borders like Poland, Estonia and Lithuania.

Staltenberg entered the Norwegian government after his two-party minority alliance collapsed last week on whether a number of EU’s EU should be signed by the law. Former finance minister TRIGOV SLAGSVold has decided to leave the Grameen, Euroseptic Center Party – a new, more protective course on Norway’s electricity by arguing.

The Labor Party, led by Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Steer, will now rule alone until the September elections, and a new inter -conjunction for export to Europe has proposed a number of new electricity, including cheap prices nationwide cheap prices.

The next issue is especially controversial in both Oslo and Brussels. The following year, two electricity interconnected expiry of two electricity from Norway to Denmark and the Labor Party have indicated that it will promote their not to renew their renovation. However, it has triggered anger throughout Denmark, Sweden and the EU.