Jens Stoltenberg, Minister of Finance in Norway - Former NATO chief takes on new role after leading the alliance for 10 years
Former NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg will be Norway's new finance minister, as part of a cabinet reshuffle.
Stoltenberg, a veteran Labour Party politician, was Norway's prime minister from 2000 to 2001 and 2005 to 2013. He led the Western military alliance NATO for a decade, stepping down last year.
The 65-year-old economist was finance minister from 1996 to 1997. He is widely seen as a pragmatic centrist.
At NATO, Stoltenberg was called the "Trump whisperer" after convincing Donald Trump to stay in the alliance when the US president complained during his first term that allies were spending too little on defence and threatened to withdraw.
Norway's eurosceptic Centre Party resigned from the government last week in a dispute over the approval of European Union energy policies, leaving the centre-left Labour Party to rule alone, eight months before an election.
During his first term as prime minister, Stoltenberg established the so-called spending rule, a self-imposed rule that states that Norwegian governments should not use more than 4% of the total value of the sovereign wealth fund for national budgets.
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