Tag: politics

Released spy answered questions

Frode Berg met Tuesday with members of the special parliamentary commission charged with controlling Norway's secretive intelligence-gathering agencies. Some politicians think the head of...

Norway rejects Trump’s Israel policy

The City of Oslo had already banned the purchase of any goods or services from Israel's settlements in occupied Palestinian territory when state officials...

NAV minister faces lack of confidence

The Reds Party has become the first to propose a lack of confidence vote in the government minister responsible for Norway's scandalized state welfare...

Climate change tops all political issues

Climate change has, for the first time, topped an annual list that ranks Norway's most important political issues. It remains unclear, however, whether Norwegians...

US ambassador to leave amid drama

Less than two weeks after the US Secretary of the Navy, Richard V Spencer, was in Norway to visit top Norwegian officials, he finds...

Alarms ring over Equinor pollution

Norway's environmental directorate has uncovered serious violations at a string of Equinor facilities, ranging from chemical spills at offshore platforms to leaks of climate...

Wolves shot, both killed and moved

With snow on the ground making it easier to track wolves, Norwegian authorities took to the air this week in another controversial move to...

Spy chief waits for probe results

The embattled chief of Norway's military intelligence agency E-tjenesten, Gen Lt Morten Haga Lunde, clearly felt compelled to utter some sort of response as questions...

U-turn taken on disputed ‘Y-blokka’

Norwegians seem to either love or hate the low-rise Y-shaped office building that was damaged in the bombing of the state government complex in...

Top politicians lose public confidence

More Norwegians are increasingly engaged in political issues but don't feel their top politicians are listening to them. New figures show that public confidence...
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