Tag: politics

Welfare scandal shakes a nation

NEWS ANALYSIS: It didn't take Norwegian media outlets long to find and interview real victims of an unprecedented scandal that's still unfolding at Norway's...

Thunberg shames Norwegian leaders

Young Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg shamed Norwegian and other Nordic leaders once again on Tuesday when she refused to accept the Nordic Council's...

Liberals lose their climate credibility

Veteran environmentalist Frederic Hauge has joined the ranks of those giving up on Norway's embattled Liberal Party. He and fellow activist Gaute Eiterjord claim...

Welfare recipients wrongly convicted

Norway's state welfare agency NAV has erred in its intepretation of how welfare payments can be received while residing abroad. Nearly 40 people have...

Festival aims to light up autumn darkness

The City of Oslo is spending NOK 2 million (USD 222,000) on artistic lighting exhibits from around Europe this coming weekend. Billed as a...

Oil Fund milestone fuels rare praise

Even critical Norwegian newspapers had praise for Norwegian politicians over the weekend, after the country's enormous Oil Fund broke yet another record. "Congratulations!" editorialized...

Problems plague Progress Party

NEWS ANALYSIS: The conviction and jail term handed to one of its Members of Parliament on Friday is just the lastest in a long...

Hopes and tension at liberation jubilee

On the eve of Friday's ceremonies marking the Soviet liberation of Finnmark in 1944 came word that a Russian commission was recommending a pardon...

Protests washed over ‘Our Ocean’ show

NEWS ANALYSIS: After years of earning billions off its own offshore oil, gas, seafood and shipping industries, the Norwegian government hosted a heavily promoted...

Rich shipowner defies Darwin

A wealthy 81-year-old shipowner from Kristiansand is donating NOK 15 million (USD 1.6 million) to a foundation that challenges Darwin's theory of evolution. Einar...
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