Tag: politics

Voter turnout already strong

A huge increase in early voting may bode well for overall voter turnout in Norway's upcoming Parliamentary election. Many Norwegians find the early voting...

Early voting soars in the middle of Norway’s national election campaign

An estimated 72 percent of Norwegians have already decided who they want to run the country, and record numbers of them have taken advantage...

Grocery chains called in for a grilling

Trade Minister Cecilie Myrseth of the Labour Party has called in officials from Norway's grocery business once again, after food prices jumped again in...

Norway hails its Svalbard centennial

Thursday marked 100 years since the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard officially became part of Norwegian territory. Norway's ongoing control over the area has become...

Norway’s national election campaign caught in more international drama

NEWS ANALYSIS: Norwegians could finally focus on domestic issues when their national election campaign kicked off in earnest this week, but it didn't last...

Norway’s ‘Democracy Festival’ underway

Tens of thousands of Norwegians have descended once again on the country's southern coastal town of Arendal for a week of political, social and...

Oil Fund’s Israeli sell-off begins

UPDATED: Finance Minister Jens Stoltenberg says he's glad Norway's Oil Fund has "acted quickly" to sell off several of its highly controversial stakes in...

Summertime blues for Oil Fund boss

It's been a rough summer for Nicolai Tangen, the wealthy former hedge fund manager in London who came home to Norway to lead its...

Church bells rang for Gaza, as more blast Oil Fund investments in Israel

More than 300 churches all over Norway rang their bells for seven minutes on Thursday afternoon, in what Norwegian bishops called a "collective demonstration...

Oil Fund profits on war in Gaza

Oslo newspaper Aftenposten dropped a bomb of its own on Tuesday, when it reported how Norway's huge sovereign wealth fund has earned millions on...
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