section_path: Post-NATO career/Minister of Finance (2025 – present)
section_name: Minister of Finance (2025 – present)
paragraph_text: Minister of Finance (2025 – present)
  
  On 4 February 2025, following the collapse of the coalition between the Centre Party and the Labour Party, Stoltenberg succeeded Trygve Slagsvold Vedum, the leader of the Centre Party, as Norway's Minister of Finance. Stoltenberg resigned from his position as chairman of the MSC, but he still plans to return to the MSC after his tenure as minister. Much like his position in the MSC, Stoltenberg also stepped down as head of the steering committee to focus entirely on his responsibilities as finance minister.
  
  A week into his tenure, Stoltenberg was a part of the Norwegian delegation at the 61st Munich Security Conference. He warned the United States against not allowing Ukraine to be a part of negotiations over a peace treaty with Russia over the war in Ukraine.
  
  Stoltenberg launched an initiative to seek a compromise solution on tax settlement in March, which most of the opposition turned down with the exception of the Greens and the Red Party. Despite this setback, he expressed continued optimism about the proposal and cited the heightened global situation and the necessity to seek advise on how to change the tax system.
  
  Stoltenberg accompanied prime minister Jonas Gahr Støre during his visit to Washington, D.C. in April to meet US President Donald Trump to discuss US – Norway relations, the war in Ukraine and Norway's role in the Arctic.