Tag: election 2017
Embattled politician drops her holiday
While most top Norwegian politicians are taking a least a week or two off this summer, Liberal Party leader Trine Skei Grande is already...
Solberg delivered, but on the defense
NEWS ANALYSIS: Prime Minister Erna Solberg could rightly point out this week that her conservative government coalition with the Progress Party has delivered on as...
Opposition loses its lead in the polls
Finance Minister Siv Jensen's Progress Party and Erna Solberg's Conservatives have rebounded in the latest public opinion polls, taking back the lead that the...
Dual citizenship wins a nod, but ‘no’ to circumcision
Norway's Progress Party has become the latest to back dual citizenship, thus creating a majority in the current Parliament in favour of allowing Norwegian citizens...
Jensen rallies her shrunken party
Progress Party leader Siv Jensen left no doubt as she opened her party's annual meeting on Friday that she's determined to hang on to government...
Parties used May 1 to kick off campaign
Norway's leftist political parties were out in full force on the May 1st Labour Day holiday, using the beautiful weather and crowds to mobilize support...
‘Fog lifts’ as Labour turns to the center
Labour Party leader Jonas Gahr Støre fended off criticism during the weekend that he's been vague and unwilling to take firm stands on important issues. He...
Støre blasts Solberg in opening address
Jonas Gahr Støre mounted what some commentators called "frontal attacks" against Erna Solberg's conservative government coalition when he opened his Labour Party's annual general meeting...
‘Catastrophic’ polls as Labour gathers
NEWS ANALYSIS: Labour Party leader Jonas Gahr Støre faced what some commentators, even in the pro-Labour press, were calling "catastrophic" public opinion polls as he...
Erna’s government losing its majority
NEWS ANALYSIS: Just as Prime Minister Erna Solberg was flying off to Beijing to normalize relations with China this past week, she was met with...
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