Norway would more than double its financial pledge to Ukraine this year while also hiking its own defence spending, said the prime minister on Thursday, declaring the Nordic country faced its most serious security situation for 80 years.

Possibly stung by criticism from other European States as well as the USA, the Norwegian Parliament voted unanimously on March 6 to increase aid to Ukraine

Norway will more than double its aid to Ukraine in 2025 to bring the annual total to 7.8 billion US dollars, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre announced Thursday, expressing concern that Russia was "heavily arming".

Had it not been for electricity flowing from countries like Norway, the evening “would have been a disaster”, says Kathryn Porter, of consultancy Watt Logic, threatening a “cascading blackout”. “We did come really close,” she says.

NSC data indicates Norway’s seafood shipments to the U.S. in February 2025 were worth NOK 548 million (USD 50 million, EUR 46 million), or 52 percent, more than they were in February 2024. Total exports to the U.S. were wroth NOK 985 million (USD 90 million, EUR 83 million), made up of shipments of multiple different species.

While the new car market for EVs surged by 37% in January across Europe, Tesla’s share dwindled as sales dropped by almost half.