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Greens ran steering parties off the road

September 12, 2019

NEWS ANALYSIS: Norway's triumphant Greens Party (MDG) is suddenly posing a huge new challenge to the country's two largest parties that have steered Norwegian...

More trains set to roll to Gothenburg

September 11, 2019

Public demand for more and better train service both within Norway and abroad is finally being recognized. Both state railway Vy (formerly NSB) and...

Equinor vows to clean up oil spill

September 9, 2019

Norway's state oil company Equinor (ex-Statoil) was being bashed by environmentalists over the weekend for failing to better secure its oil terminal in the...

Quarreling spikes as election looms

September 3, 2019

NEWS ANALYSIS: With less than a week to go before important local elections are held all over Norway, Prime Minister Erna Solberg doesn't only...

Brazilian free trade deal ignites fury

August 24, 2019

The timing could hardly have been worse, or even more internationally and politically embarrassing for the Norwegian government: As fires raged in the Amazon,...

Solheim leaves SV for the Greens

August 21, 2019

Norway's Greens Party doesn't seem to mind that Erik Solheim, their newest high-profile member, lost his job as head of the UN's environmental program...

Conflict erupts over rain forest funding

August 16, 2019

Ten years of funding rain forest preservation efforts in the Amazon, as a means of battling climate change, has suddenly left Norwegian officials disappointed...

Tempers rise over Greens’ ‘socialism’

August 15, 2019

Morning radio listeners got an earfull on Thursday, when the ever-provocative deputy leader of Norway's conservative Progress Party, Sylvi Listhaug, accused the Greens Party...

Oslo ‘to be emissions-free by 2030’

August 9, 2019

Norway's municipal election campaign is underway, with incumbent politicians in Oslo promising that they'll make the Norwegian capital emissions-free by 2030. Critics question whether...