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Deposit insurance set to decline

Norwegian bank customers look set to lose the relatively generous deposit insurance they've enjoyed for years. Finance ministers in the European Union (EU) agreed...

Liberals switch sides on tariffs

Norway's Liberal Party (Venstre) has finally made it clear that it won't contribute towards efforts to quickly liberalize trade, and reduce meat and cheese...

Embattled Sp boss survives, for now

Liv Signe Navarsete, leader of Norway's crisis-plagued Center Party (Senterpartiet, Sp), has not offered to resign her post despite stinging criticism in a comprehensive...

Party leaders come under attack

Ola Borten Moe, Norway's former Oil & Energy Minister, was sporting a black eye this week but claims it has nothing to do with...

Innovation boss set to lose her job

Gunn Ovesen, who has headed the state agency Innovation Norway for the past decade, is abruptly the leaving the organization that made her one...

New oil discovery comes amidst cuts

Just as the Norwegian government is being urged to slow down the pace of offshore oil and gas production comes news that state-controlled Statoil...

Apartheid fight flares in Parliament

Norway's Parliament (Storting) opened its session on Monday with its president, Olemic Thommesen of the Conservatives, making a tribute to the late South African...

Erna finally more popular than Jens

Former Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg was a hard act to follow for successor Erna Solberg. Even though her Conservative Party won the last national...

Nobel ceremony as Mandela hailed

This year's Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo, always held on December 10, will proceed on Tuesday as tens of thousands of people simultaneously...

Norway mourns death of Mandela

Nelson Mandela's "special relationship" with Norway was prompting an outpouring of tributes on Friday, following the death of the freedom fighter and Nobel laureate....
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