BTN NORWEGIAN POLITICS 2002 HEADLINES ONLY

BEHIND THE NEWS NORWEGIAN POLITICS (BTNN) - BACK ISSUES 2002
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N147	Thursday, 5 December, 2002 Are We Greedy?	Immoral to Enjoy What You Create? Affluence and Individualism Behind Poor Ethics? An Alternate Theory
N146	Tuesday, 26 November, 2002 A Changing Landscape	Budget Deal With Progress Party, Budget Still Tight Labour Teaming Up With Left Socialists & Centre Party Labour/Socialists Committed to Expensive Pension Plan Progress Party's Economic Policy Developing A Changing Political Landscape
N145	Wednesday, 13 November, 2002 Boiled or Fried?	No Budget Deal With Labour Likely New Labour Demands Harmful for Industry Government Believes in Last-Minute Solution Conservative Government Most Sensible if Crisis on Budget
N144	Friday, 25 October, 2002 Still no Dialogue	Budget Negotiations to Continue Monday Solution Unlikely Until Last Minute Speculations Over New Vote of Confidence No Dialogue Over Economic Strategy
N143	Friday, 18 October, 2002 Fix Vs Fix	Budget Negotiations Started Progress Party Wants NOK 10 Bn Accepts Budget Balance But Demands Opening for "Import Budget" Progress Party's Economic Philosophy Becoming Clearer Establishment Unwilling to Discuss Specifics Willoch Warns Against Repeating History's Pension Fund Mistakes
N142	Monday, 14 October, 2002 SMCs	Danes To Promote Stock in Smaller Companies Supports Theory About Knowledge-Dependent Equity Capital Movements
N141	Friday, 4 October, 2002 It Is Tight	Government Holding Back on Spending What Are the Best Fiscal Indicators? Labour Wants Less and More Progress Party Wants More and More
N140	Friday, 30 August, 2002 A Damned Generation?	Pension Committee Without Conclusions Petroleum Fund for Pensions - Symbolism Only? One Generation Willing to Pay for Two? Hard to See Viable Alternative to Flat State Pensions Strong Incentives To Stay on Job Longer Required Several Roads to Market-Vitalizing Funds
N139	Monday, 16 September, 2002 Foss Fans	Strong OECD Support for Government's Tax Program and "Action Rule" Recommends New Rule Limiting Public Expenditure Vital to Lift Labour Supply and Productivity Growth Wage Development Should be Tied to Productivity Budgeting Should be Multi-Annual More Privatisation and "Money-Follows-the-User" Systems
N138	Friday, 23 August, 2002 Soap	Three, Four, Five or Six in Labour's Leadership? At Least Seven Candidates for Open Deputy Leader Office Diversity or Unity? Danish Labour Leader Determined to Modernise
N137	Thursday, 8 August, 2002 Open Conflict	Foss Says Tax Cuts Won't Push Interest Rates Bulk of "Oil Money" To Be Used For Tax Cuts Open Conflict Christians/Conservatives Over Tax Policy Christians Working for a Budget Proposal Profiled for Labour?
N136	Monday, 5 August, 2002 Stoltenberg's Strategy - and the Response	Stoltenberg Defines Strategy for Road Back to Power First Step: Alliance With Socialist Left Party & Centre Party Second Step: Breaking Up Coalition to Recruit Christians Requirement: No Labour/Government Budget Deal Liberal Top Wants to Bring Socialist Left into Bondevik Coalition Progress Party at 30.6%; Majority Together With Conservatives Where are the Conservative Strategists?
N135	Wednesday, 17 July, 2002 Danger Ahead	Sponheim Says 50:50 For Government Crisis "Import Budget" Focal Point in Upcoming Budget Battle What are the Political Ramifications? Hagen's Adjustments Used as New Counter-Argument
N134	Tuesday, 2 July, 2002 Summer Entertainment	Political Fretting After Bank Merger & Gas Power Failures
N133	Thursday, 28 June, 2002 Go Back to Sem	Majority of Voters Wants Progress Party in Government Bondevik Should Invite Hagen to New Sem Session Vital to Expose Hagen's Dual Strategy
N132	Wednesday, 19 June, 2002 ZigZag	Parliament Zigzagging Through State Ownership Policy New Magic Line at 44% Progress Party Now Only Negative to Direct State Ownership Heavy Push for Oil Money Into State Equity Funds Expensive Deal To Avoid Massive "Structure Fund" Further Privatisation Through Alliances Only For Hydro, Telenor, Statkraft, Kongsberg Group How to Deprive the Progress Party of Political Initiative
N131	Wednesday, 12 June, 002 New Solar Evidence	New Study Indicates 100,000-year Solar/Climate Cycle Confirms Earlier Observations of Shorter Cycles Precautionary Principle Must Be Applied For All Risks Non-Anthropogenic Dominance Requires Adaption Strategy A Challenge for Norway, the Spearhead?
N130	Wednesday, 5 June, 002 Witness for the Defence	Economists Argue For Petroleum Fund Policies Warnings Against Rent Seeking; Dutch Disease Suggestion: Capital Transfers To All Norwegians (Alaska Model)
N129	Monday, 27 May, 002 Blind Faith	Parliament Has Ratified Kyoto Committee Majority Calls For "New Industrial Activities, Independent of Oil"
N128	Monday, 27 May, 002 Copy Cat	Labour, Progress Party, Socialists Join for Increased Expenditure Hagen Copying Bondevik's 1983 Strategy Part of Crooked Road to Government Power Strategy Has to be Tempered at Crossroads like Revised State Budget Will Hagen Go For the Best Long-Term Option?
N127	Wednesday, 15 May, 002 Financial Freedom - Or Not?	Government, Labour To Earmark Petroleum Fund for Pensions Government, Not Labour, Opens for Private Funds Relabelling Cosmetics Only, to Protect Politicians from Themselves Is It Sensible to Limit Freedom of Financial Action? Does "The New Economy" Invalidate Conventional Wisdom?
N126	Tuesday, 14 May, 002 Political Mercenaries	43% of MPs Would Consider Becoming Lobbyists There is a Better Option
N125	Friday, 3 May, 002 Courageous	Government Discards Unrealistic and Expensive Regional Policy
N124	Monday, 22 April, 2002 First Six Months	Government Celebrates Six Months in Office Tax and Environment Still Highlights
N123	Monday, 22 April, 2002 Privatization	Major Privatization Program Confirmed Hydro, DnB, Telenor, Kongsberg Down to 34%, Raufoss to Zero Problem is Lack of Norwegian Investors Fiscal Issues Left to Skauge Commission Long Wait for Pension Funding Proposal
N122	Friday, 19 April, 2002 Not Insignificant	Acquisition Act To Be Repealed First Major Deregulation From New Government May Reduce Discount on Norwegian Stock Other Controls Will Remain In Force
N121	Friday, 5 April, 2002 The Self-Trap	Government Wants Parliament to Ratify Kyoto Before Summer National Quota System Based on 20% Below 1990 No Payment to Government for Quotas No Discussion About Fundamentals or IPCC System's Self-Trapping Nature
N120	Tuesday, 12 March, 2002 Bad and Old	Progress Party Wants Tax Policy Into Wage Negotiations
N119	Tuesday, 26 February, 2002 Same Old Tale	Gjedrem Assumes Petroleum Tax Equals Capital Replacement Weak Argument Against "Foreign Expense Budget" More Creativity Expected from Central Bank CEO
N118	Monday, 18 February, 2002 The Worried Winner	Labour Tumbling Further, Now #3 Party Jagland On Crusade for Socialism after His Withdrawal Stoltenberg Passive and Defensive, But Unchallenged - For Now Why Doesn't the Victor Act Victorious? Look Out For the Deputy Leader Candidates
N117	Monday, 11 February, 2002 Skauge Commission	Tax Commission's Mandate Opens Possibilities Removing the Top Tax the Logical Conclusion Commission Needs to Go Further than Denmark for Modern Advice
N116	Wednesday, 6 February, 2002 Zealots	Industry Wants to Maintain Gas Power Option Government Playing Poker Against a Winning Hand CO2 Sequestration Meaningless With Low Quota Price Will Labour Agree to Spend Billions?
N115	Thursday, 24 January, 2002 Good Policy Turned Bad	OSE Director Says Parts of Petroleum Fund Created in Norway Finance Minister Unwilling to Discuss Fund Policy
N114	Friday, 18 January, 2002 Calling for a Third Man	Labour Leadership Battle Continues Media-Supported Search for Third Man Starting
N113	Thursday, 10 January, 2002 Norway and Europe	To Debate or Not to Debate Hard to Keep Track of Motives It's All Up to the "Old No" Camp