Tag: politics

Protest votes alter Norwegian politics

"The only answer is to be radical," declared a triumphant Lan Marie Nguyen Berg after her flourishing Greens Party trounced Norway's established parties not...

Latest polls show Greens in the lead

Several public opinion polls released less than a week before Monday's local elections in Norway show record-high voter support for the Greens Party (MDG/Miljøpartiet...

Norway braces for new Brexit chaos

This week's Brexit drama is once again being followed anxiously in Norway, which struggled with its own EU referendum results in 1994. Now Great...

State urges foreign residents to vote

Monday's municipal and county elections in Norway are the only ones in which non-citizens can vote, as long as they have legal resident status....

Quarreling spikes as election looms

NEWS ANALYSIS: With less than a week to go before important local elections are held all over Norway, Prime Minister Erna Solberg doesn't only...

Norway working to bring spy home

Norway's foreign ministry is reportedly spending millions trying to get convicted spy Frode Berg freed from prison in Moscow. The goal, reports state broadcaster...

First archbishop ready to retire

Helga Haugland Byfuglien officially took over after King Harald V as head of the newly independent Norwegian Church when church and state were separated...

State finally funds Viking ship repairs

Leaders of the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo could finally heave a sigh of relief on Monday, when government officials signaled release of NOK...

Alta in mourning, campaign halted

All the political parties in Norway's northern city of Alta have halted their election campaigns following a helicopter crash during the weekend that killed...

No options for her royal confirmation

The daughter of Crown Prince Haakon was set to undergo Norwegian teenagers' rite of passage this weekend, known as konfirmasjon. While record few now...
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