Stockholm
Norway, like the rest of the world, is stricken by coronavirus, with a toll which amounted to 16 dead this Sunday. The collapse of the oil market particularly affects the Nordic kingdom, the leading European exporter. The famous Norwegian sovereign wealth fund, the largest in the world, has lost 16% of its value, and weighs only… 930 billion dollars. Faced with the health crisis, the government of the conservative Erna Solberg was one of the first to react, closing its borders, imposing confinement on its population, taking energetic measures to support its businesses. However, he did not give up his long tradition of solidarity with the poorest countries.
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€ 10 million paid to WHO
In parallel to the UN, which seeks to raise two billion dollars to provide humanitarian aid to vulnerable or conflict-torn countries, to better arm them against the coronavirus, Oslo has taken the initiative of a multilateral fund to " respond assistance needs
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