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Norway’s conservative PM presents new govt, no EU minister

Norway's conservative PM presents new govt, no EU minister | iNFOnews.ca
Prime Minister of Norway, Erna Solberg, center, Minister of Finance Siv jensen, left, and Trine Skei Grande, leader of The Liberal Party of Norway, right, at a Press Conference at Jeloy, Norway, Sunday Jan. 14. 2018. Norway's current two-party center-right government has agreed to include the small centrist Liberal Party in the Cabinet after lengthy talks but the expanded three-way government will still fall short of majority in the parliament. (Lise Aserud /NTB scanpix via AP)

COPENHAGEN – Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg has presented her new centre-right, three-party government with no major changes but without a European affairs minister.

Solberg presented her team Wednesday after talks during which that portfolio was sacrificed.

Solberg — the prime minister of non-European Union member Norway since 2013 — said Sunday talks lasting two weeks had yielded a new government that now included the small centrist Liberal Party on top of Solberg’s Conservatives and the anti-migrant Progress Party.

Yet even with the Liberals’ eight additional seats, the Cabinet only controls 80 of the Storting’s 169 seats.

Under Solberg’s lead, the Conservatives scored a narrow victory in September’s parliamentary election.

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