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Minister to evaluate new executive bonus rules

Norway's government minister in charge of business and trade, Monica Mæland, says she and her colleagues are evaluating new rules to limit the bonus...

Labour will elect new leader in June

The Norwegian Labour Party, faced with losing its popular longtime leader and prime minister candidate Jens Stoltenberg, decided on Monday that it will hold...

‘Time to clean up our language’

Jan Tore Sanner, dubbed by some as Norway's new "super minister" because of his wide range of government responsibility, worries that confusing language is...

Stoltenberg wins top NATO job

Jens Stoltenberg, Norway's highly popular former prime minister, has been chosen as the next civilian head of NATO, and politicians in Norway were already...

Stoltenberg ran into some critics

Some of the arguably harshest criticism to be lodged yet against the former government of Labour Party leader Jens Stoltenberg came just as speculation...

Parliament slams Mongstad failure

Parliament slammed the former Stoltenberg government's handling of full-scale carbon capture and storage plans at Statoil's Mongstad plant on Norway's west coast, in a...

Intelligence agency lifts the veil

Norway's national military intelligence service (NIS, or Etteretningstjenesten) will be more open about its staff, operations and intelligence gathering, promises NIS Chief Kjell Grandhagen....

Ex-oil boss warns against Russia

As world leaders gathered in The Hague and Brussels this week to discuss security and politics, the first chief executive of Statoil is warning...

Media slug it out over Stoltenberg

Norwegian media seemed more confident than ever Sunday night that former Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg would become the next secretary general of NATO. After...

Disputed party heir fights on

Ola Borten Moe's Center Party fellows seem to either love him or hate him, and even though a majority fall into the latter category,...
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