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Erna fires up Norway’s EU debate

NEWS ANALYSIS: Former Prime Minister Erna Solberg has reignited debate over whether Norway should join the EU, nearly 30 years after the last referendum...

Offshore wind projects raise questions

Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre hopes Norway's first major offshore wind projects will boost local competence that can spread worldwide, but opposition politicians think...

More Norwegian officials trash TikTok

The Norwegian Parliament, the city governments of both Oslo and Bergen and Norway's central bank have joined the state government in trashing both the...

No plans to take down turbines

A majority of Trøndelag residents want to let controversial wind turbines in the Fosen area keep operating, but only if the rights of Sami...

Government leaders drop TikTok and Telegram

Norway's government ministers, state secretaries and their political advisers have all been told to remove the apps TikTok and Telegram from their government-issued telephones...

Energy issues dominate agendas

Energy prices and supplies have continued to dominate the agendas at some very demonstrative and political meetings lately. The concerns and arguments that arise...

Finance minister battling illness

Norwegian Finance Minister Trygve Slagsvold Vedum has been battling more than just budgets, rising prices and political opponents lately. While addressing more than 300...

Støre and his party now in ‘deep crisis’

NEWS ANALYSIS: Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre walked into the proverbial lion's den on Thursday, when he addressed the Sami Parliament in Karasjok just...

Wind turbines’ future still up in the air

Sami and environmental activists ended their blockades of several Norwegian government ministries on Friday, after securing official promises that huge turbines generating wind power...

From arrests to apology: Government ‘sorry’ it violated Sami human rights

It took a week of protest demonstrations in Oslo, but Sami reindeer herders in central Norway finally received a long-overdue apology from the Norwegian...
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