Tag: politics

Coalition in limbo as its parties quarrel

Norwegians headed into the weekend Friday with their government in limbo. Leaders of Norway's government coalition appeared unwilling to bow to looming demands from...

Poll ‘crisis’ for the government, too

As Prime Minister Erna Solberg struggles to keep her government coalition together, two new public opinion polls in the past week indicate she's also...

The Progress Party stirs up a storm

UPDATED: Progress Party leader and Finance Minister Siv Jensen is suddenly threatening to storm out of Prime Minister Erna Solberg's conservative coalition. The uproar...

Norway’s oil ‘good to the last drop’

The Norwegian government, the oil directorate and the oil industry itself have all confirmed what climate activists feared. They'll keep searching for and producing...

IS family’s rescue splits government

Norway's conservative coalition government is deeply split and may even fall over its majority's decision to rescue two small children from a refugee camp...

Confidence wanes in the public sector

Another opposition party in Parliament called on Monday for the resignation of the government minister in charge of embattled state welfare agency NAV. It's...

NAV hearing full of apologies, excuses

"I'm sorry ... I apologize ... I accept criticism ... with the benefit of hindsight ... I beg your pardon."  That refrain became all...

Equinor, NHO strike back at oil critics

NEWS ANALYSIS: It was no coincidence that Norway's state oil company Equinor launched a new initiative to cut its own carbon emissions earlier this...

Norway will pull out of Iraq, if asked

Just hours before delivering his annual New Year's address Monday evening, Defense Minister Frank Bakke-Jensen couldn't predict the fate of Norwegian soldiers in Iraq...

Regional mergers alter Norway’s map

Hundreds of thousands of Norwegians woke up living in a new town or county after New Year, many with new addresses. New county- and...
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