Tag: politics

New government platform ‘delayed’

Red and blue lights were blinking again during the weekend over the fate of Prime Minister Erna Solberg's non-socialist government.  As of Monday morning,...

Wolf debate ‘blown out of proportion’

It was the wildlife preservationists' turn on Saturday to demonstrate by the thousands in favour of protecting Norway's roughly 60 surviving wolves. As their...

NATO’s Stoltenberg scolds homeland

Jens Stoltenberg addressed the annual conference hosted by Norway's employers' organization NHO many times when he held government power in the country. This week...

Alarms ring around government talks

NEWS ANALYSIS: They were all smiles just a week ago, when the leaders of Norway's four non-socialist parties launched talks in earnest to form...

Permission granted to shoot another wolf

State authorities have given hunters in Norway's northernmost county of Finnmark permission to shoot and kill a third wolf this winter. They claim there's...

MPs face stricter rules for travel

Norway's Parliament has imposed stricter accounting rules on MPs claiming travel expenses, just before another Progress Party politician was found to have submitted questionable...

Anti-wolf activists howl in Oslo again

Killing two more wolves on New Year's Day wasn't enough to satisfy those who view the predator as a threat to their livestock or...

Scandal-plagued building opens

Members of the Norwegian Parliament have now received new office- and meeting-room space, along with an expanded garage and post terminal, but at a...

Sami president hails cultural pride

Norway's Sami population faces another important year ahead, claimed the president of Sametinget (The Sami Parliament), Aili Keskitalo, in her traditional New Year's address...

Solberg takes off for India

Prime Minister Erna Solberg will be taking a break from negotiations to expand her government this weekend, when she flies off on an official...
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