A Smarter, Greener and More Just Norway

01.06.2009 Here you can read about our most important issues in the upcoming elections.

A Smarter Norway

We need knowledge to secure our welfare, the environment, democracy and an innovative business sector in the future. Schools, higher education and science are therefore our top priority in the coming four years. We want to develop a knowledge society based on a public school system of the highest quality.





Venstre wants:
• new teachers to have a five year degree
• to give teachers a year off to develop their professional skills
• to cut the payroll tax for apprentices by 50%
• to strengthen research and increase the quality of higher education
• to increase the number of students at NTNU and HiST, primarily within materials sciences, technology and teaching
• to provide better student housing, and increase the financial support for students to 11 months
• to strengthen innovation and entrepreneurship through a better framework and social arrangements

A Greener Norway

Most of us want a better environment. Our task is to make sure that everyone who wants to are able to contribute to this. It is therefore important to make it easier to choose environmentally friendly. Venstre is the environmental party in Norway. We want to make Norway an environmentally friendly pioneer country. This means that we have to develop and use new technology, create new environmentally friendly jobs and make adjustments in all areas which have got negative consequences for the environment and the climate.

Venstre wants:
• the train from Trondheim to Oslo to take no more than 4 hours within 2020
• to increase financial support for energy saving
• to do more research on clean and renewable energy sources
• to give Trondheim a better public transportation system: more frequent departures, better accessibility and lower prices
• to establish an electronic card which can be used to pay for all kinds of public transportation in the whole country
• to secure vulnerable areas of nature, for example through continued protection of the river Gaula
• to protect more farm land in the interests of food production in the future
• to preserve important cultural landscapes

A More Just Norway

It is no longer most important to give more to everyone, but to help individuals by giving more to those who need it the most. Norway has got one of the best welfare systems in the world. Despite of this some people fall through. Venstre therefore wants a welfare reform which gives more treatment and care in people’s local communities through strengthened health services in the municipalities. This demands stronger municipalities and strengthened local government.

Venstre wants:
• more doctors and nurses at nursing homes
• to introduce a basic income of 2G (approx. 140.000 kroner)
• to secure the local hospitals in Røros and Orkanger
• to provide more social housing for people in need
• to give drug addicts better treatment and better aftercare
• to have publicly financed dental care
• to make sure that older people can live at home as long as they wish, even though they are in need of care

Vote Venstre for:
• better public transportation
• no oil production in Lofoten and Vesterålen
• business based on knowledge and innovation
• more practice in vocational schools
• reduced payroll taxes for apprentices
• commitment to teachers
• 11 months financial support for students
• 3% of GDP to research
• a multi-cultural Norway
• allowing more UN refugees to come to Norway
• quality in the care for elders
• more child benefits to those who need it the most
• better treatment for drug addicts
• less centralised culture
• no NRK licence
• less taxes on work, more taxes on consumption
• no inheritance tax
• reduced tax on assets
• refunds on environmentally dangerous products
• a WTO treaty which secures fair trade
• maintaining Ørland air force base
• less surveillance
• no odelsrett
• more ecological farming
• stronger local governments
• suffrage for 16-year olds
• more transparent public administration
• a party without special interests