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Progress Party’s lack of progress

NEWS COMMENTARY: Norway's most conservative party, the Progress Party (Fremskrittspartiet, Frp), must be feeling a need for attention. One of its top leaders has...

Royal guests at foreign minister’s 50th

Norway's popular and hard-working foreign minister, Jonas Gahr Støre, was allowing himself a slight break from his normally breathless schedule to celebrate his 5oth...

Conservatives now largest in the land

Erna Solberg's Conservative Party (Høyre) is now Norway's largest political party, according to a new public opinion poll. The Norwegian Labour Party's decline in popularity...

Minister offers new compromise

An underground, instead of undersea, cable may wind up as the compromise solution to a heated political conflict over how to run power lines...

‘Nostalgia’ around role in Mideast

UPDATED: As Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre made the rounds in Israel and Palestinian areas this week, he initially seemed to be among those...

Støre predicts new peace talks

Norway's foreign minister will turn 50 next week, but Jonas Gahr Støre doesn't see any reason to slow his pace or stay home to...

New anger rises over Hardanger

Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg was back on the defensive Monday morning, after Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) reported that his government may not set up an...

More power line battles loom

Overhead power lines dot the landscape all over Norway, but now local officials may step up demands for underground or underwater cables instead, after...

Government re-evaluates alternatives to disputed Hardanger power lines

Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg met opponents of overhead power lines in Hardanger face-to-face in his office on Tuesday, and later said his government would...

Coalition leaders not smiling now

They all seemed a lot happier at the beginning of the summer, but with their government coalition under constant criticism, tensions keep rising among...
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