Tag: government

E16 reopened, new highway planned

State emergency road crews managed to reopen a key portion of Norway's E16 highway on Sunday afternoon, less than a week after it was buried by...

Experts challenge passport chaos

A prominent law professor and a leading immigration attorney in Norway are among those challenging new Norwegian passport rules that can leave tens of...

Hydro boss is state’s best-paid

Svein Richard Brandtzæg, chief executive of Norsk Hydro, earned the most last year of all the bosses of large Norwegian companies in which the state...

Sandberg breaks ministerial boycott

Per Sandberg of Norway's conservative Progress Party has become the first Norwegian government minister to visit Russia in more than two years. He declared that...

Songbirds also in the firing line

Golden eagles aren't the only birds in Norway to land in the firing line in recent weeks. Protests are also flying over a proposal...

Protests fly over new eagle hunt

A controversial new project to allow limited hunting of Norway's otherwise protected golden eagles (kongeørn) has set off widespread protests. The farmer-friendly Center Party won...

Human Rights Watch praises Norway’s new transgender rights

The human rights organization Human Rights Watch was praising a new health care law in Norway, approved this week in the annual rush of...

Parliament softens asylum reform

Norway won't be making its new immigration and asylum rules as strict as the tough-talking Immigration Minister Sylvi Listhaug wanted them to be. She didn't manage...

Greens party backs dual citizenship

Norway's small but potentially powerful Greens party (Miljøpartiet De Grønne, MDG) decided during its national board meeting over the weekend to support rising calls...

Report blasts efforts to aid Afghanistan

Norway's efforts to help create a stable and democratic state in Afghanistan have been all but wasted, according to a report on Norway's involvment...
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