Tag: Nobel Peace Prize

EU rises in Peace Prize speculation

UPDATED: Thorbjørn Jagland, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, has often referred to the European Union (EU) as one of the greatest peace experiments...

‘Arab Spring’ leads Nobel speculation

Initiators of the "Arab Spring" movement who used social media to fight for democracy and human rights in northern Africa and the Middle East...

Nobel committee leader strikes back

Thorbjørn Jagland, leader of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, is firmly defending the independence of the committee that awards the Nobel Peace Prize and clearly...

Labour top calls for Nobel shake-up

One week before the next Nobel Peace Prize is due to be awarded, a top official of Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg's Labour Party is...

Norway mourns Nobel winner’s death

Norway's government minister in charge of environmental issues, Erik Solheim, called the death of Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai "a great loss for...

China allows ministerial meeting

Diplomatic relations between Norway and China, all but frozen since the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to a Chinese dissident, may...

Norway re-thinks Burma policies

Norway has started talking with some new leaders in Burma, but state secretary Espen Barth Eide insists the Norwegian government won't let itself be...

Chinese want Norwegian apology

Remarks made by the Chinese ambassador to Norway at a meeting in Bergen have been reported by participants as some of the strongest since...

DNV ‘back to normal’ in China

Large Norwegian risk management firm Det Norske Veritas (DNV) seems to have settled its own risk of doing business in China. After months of...

Pressure grows on Nobel committee

As the Norwegian Nobel Committee starts meeting in Oslo for the first time this year, pressure is growing on both committee members and the...
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