Tag: government

New Year speeches and national pride

Norway's king and prime minister made their traditional New Year's speeches over the weekend and both of them touched on the issue of national...

WikiLeaks blockade under probe

Government officials in both Norway and Iceland are questioning the grounds for what's become a credit card blockade against WikiLeaks that has disrupted the...

Caught up in WikiLeaks impact

Norwegian government officials seem to be taking the contents of US Embassy documents leaked by WikiLeaks in stride, while some experts think the leaks...

Stoltenberg sums up the year

As Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg got ready to take some time off for "juleferie" (Christmas holidays), he looked back on a year featuring a...

Norway condemns arrests in Belarus

Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre joined the European Union and US on Monday in condemning police violence and mass arrests of opposition leaders in...

Ex-ambassador mum on WikiLeaks

Benson Whitney, the former US Ambassador to Norway, won't comment on the ridicule and derogatory reports he wrote home to Washington about Norway. While...

Predator protest latest of many

Farmers from all over Norway held their latest noisy protest in front of the Parliament (Stortinget) in Oslo on Friday, this time against protection...

Romsdalen angered by hospital stall

Health Minister Anne-Grete Strøm-Erichsen was met with anger and suspicion when she visited Romsdal in western Norway this week. Putting off  construction of a...

Government ‘passive’ on Krekar

Mullah Krekar, arguably Norway's least popular refugee, likely won't be sent out of the country any time soon. Documents made available by WikiLeaks indicate...

Bureaucrats sought Americans’ help

Several top Norwegian bureaucrats have revealed internal workings of the Norwegian government to diplomats at the US Embassy in Oslo, according to documents made...
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