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Foreign minister fends off favoritism

UPDATED: Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre took the unusual step of calling in reporters on Tuesday afternoon to an unscheduled press conference, to...

Farmers’ income up 8 percent

The average income of a Norwegian farmer rose by 8 percent in 2010, the most recent reporting year, reports state statistics bureau SSB. The...

Storm of support for refugee children

NEWS ANALYSIS: They're called "asylbarn" in Norwegian, children of refugees whose applications for asylum in Norway have been rejected by immigration authorities. Debate over...

Jensen: Euro crisis yields opportunity

Students at BI Norwegian Business School in Oslo listened to an unusual lecturer on Tuesday, Progress Party leader and longtime Member of Parliament Siv...

Budget conference tougher than usual

They were all smiles on Sunday, as Norway's 19 government ministers gathered in rural Hadeland, just north of Oslo, for their annual budget conference....

More trouble for big Oslo hospital

Norway's largest hospital, formed through a highly controversial merger of several hospitals in the capital, is now grappling with questionable hiring practices that have...

Kudos for Kristin as SV era ends

Kristin Halvorsen wrapped up a record-long 15 years as leader of Norway's Socialist Left party (Sosialistisk Venstreparti, SV) on Saturday, and received long and...

SV plots course out of crisis

Norway's Socialist Left party (SV) went ahead and elected Audun Lysbakken as its new leader over the weekend, despite a week of crisis that...

Top bureaucrat also resigns from troubled ministry

Harald Nybøen, who held the top bureaucratic post at Norway's beleaguered government ministry in charge of family and equality issues, has resigned just two...

State auditor confirms violations

Fully 16 of Norway's 19 government ministries have broken the rules for making extra funding allocations, State Auditor General Jørgen Kosmo told Norwegian Broadcasting...
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