Tag: government

Farmers demand more subisidies

Norway's powerful farm lobby presented record-high subsidy demands of NOK 1.92 billion on Monday. They're encouraged that they'll be dealing with a new agriculture...

Lack of humility led to Giske’s fall

NEWS ANALYSIS: Trond Giske, the former government minister and deputy leader of the Labour Party, wielded power and influence in Norway for many years....

MP leaves Progress after new complaint

Norway's conservative Progress Party confirmed on Friday that it had received another complaint about its controversial Member of Parliament, Ulf Leirstein. It won't be...

Equinor slammed again in Australia

Norway's state oil company Equinor is being accused of making a "sham" out of the public feedback process over its highly controversial oil drilling...

Norwegian defense ‘has been weakened’

Only their smiles were perhaps surprising when Norway's defense chief, Admiral Haakon Bruun-Hanssen, presented his annual report to Defense Minister Frank Bakke-Jensen this week....

Solheim stunned by terror in Sri Lanka

Erik Solheim, the former Norwegian politician who spent years brokering peace on Sri Lanka, was among those wondering whether the brutal terrorist group IS...

Russia sentences Berg to 14 years in jail

A Russian court in Moscow found retired Norwegian border inspector Frode Berg guilty of espionage on Tuesday, and sentenced him to the full 14-year...

Errant MP faces police charges

Hege Haukeland Liadal, a Member of Parliament (MP) for the Labour Party since 2013, is now facing police charges after she admitted to repeatedly...

Royals confronted again, now over oil

For the second time in as many weeks, members of Norway's royal family have been confronted while abroad with what's seen as the hypocrisy...

Probe launched into frigate’s salvage

The Norwegian Navy's ill-fated frigate KNM Helge Ingstad was refloated this week, just six weeks after the sunken vessel was raised from the waters...
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