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Pressure rises as Krakow dumps OL

Pressure on Oslo taxpayers to arrange the Winter Olympics (OL) in 2022 is likely to rise after residents of Krakow, Poland became the latest...

Major strikes averted in public sector

UPDATED: All-night labour negotiations ended Monday morning with settlements for both state and local government workers in Norway. The local government workers settled first,...

‘Business as usual’ as strike talks go on

All-night labour negotiations dragged into the early morning hours on Monday, as negotiators for hundreds of thousands of public sector employees in Norway failed...

Bombed high-rise to stay standing

The former high-rise heart of Norway's government's headquarters survived a bombing three years ago and now won't be demolished either. Prime Minister Erna Solberg...

Nobel Committee caught in a storm

NEWS ANALYSIS: Seldom have regularly scheduled changes in the composition of the Norwegian Nobel Committee attracted so much attention, and set off so much...

Norway’s borders full of holes

The Norwegian Auditor General (Riksrevisjonen) slammed the customs service (Tollevesenet) in a report released on Thursday, saying drugs and money seizures were worryingly low,...

Ethics council could be kept

The parliamentary finance committee is unanimously committed to keeping the ethics council attached to Norway's huge sovereign wealth fund, according to sources. The government...

Talks failed to reach deal with farmers

Late night negotiations between the government and its support parties failed to reach a compromise on this year's agricultural settlement. The Christian Democrats and...

Quarrels fly over rig electrification

The Progress Party accused the coalition government's support parties, the Christian Democrats and Liberals, of breaching their agreements with the government by supporting electrification...

Not all farmers battle reforms

Amidst all the protests by defiant farmers in Oslo on Tuesday, embattled Agriculture Minister Sylvi Listhaug won some welcome support for her efforts to...
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