Tag: government

Storting’s president survives election

UPDATED: The embattled incumbent president of the Norwegian Parliament (Stortinget) survived an historic election aimed at ousting him on Saturday. Olemic Thommessen can hardly...

Peace Prize prods nuclear arms ban

The Norwegian Nobel Committee sent a powerful anti-nuclear weapons message on Friday, not least to its home country of Norway itself. Its decision to...

Minister resists oiling the budget

Finance Minister Siv Jensen has long been a proponent of investing more of Norway's oil wealth at home, and dipping into it in times...

Calls rise to halt Afghan returns

Norway's conservative government is under more pressure to stop sending rejected refugees back to Afghanistan, especially minors when they turn 18. Amnesty International is...

Prime minister more popular than ever

Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg seems to be even more popular now than when she effectively won re-election four weeks ago. That's not directly...

Giske’s positioning shakes up Labour

One of the Norwegian Labour Party's two deputy leaders, Trond Giske, is widely viewed to have positioned himself as the new heir-apparent to Labour's...

It’s ‘official:’ Labour ‘was too unclear’

The Norwegian Labour Party released its official assessment on Monday of what went wrong in their parliamentary election campaign this year, after asking their...

Critics blast new government complex

A group of architects' winning plan to rebuild Norway's government complex in the center of Oslo became the target of immediate criticism this week,...

What happens now: Dealmaking begins

Norway's Parliament building (Stortinget) will be the scene of some very heavy post-election dealmaking over the next few months. Both the right- and left...

Hareide bows out, Solberg carries on

Knut Arild Hareide, leader of the Christian Democrats party, has left the fold of Prime Minister Erna Solberg's conservative government, but Solberg remained upbeat...
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