Tag: politics

Innovation chief cleared, but quits

Anita Krohn Traaseth has been cleared of wrongdoing in her job as chief of state development agency Innovation Norway. She nonetheless decided to quit...

Russia’s hijacking ‘unacceptable’

Norwegian Foreign Minister Ine Eriksen Søreide joined European colleagues on Monday in condemning what many were calling Russia's "hijacking" of Ukrainian naval vessels in...

Government starts talking expansion

UPDATED: Prime Minister Erna Solberg and her two other coalition leaders could celebrate five years of cooperation earlier this fall, and now are negotiating...

Opposition parties keen to raise taxes

As the state budget dust settles on the conservative side of Norwegian politics, every single party on the left side is proposing budgets that...

No funds for new Viking ship museum

Norway's government was once again being accused on Wednesday of allowing the country's Viking heritage to rot. State budget negotiations failed to provide funding...

Complaints fly over state budget deal

Prime Minister Erna Solberg has moved closer to her dream of leading a majority non-socialist government, after representatives from all four political parties involved...

Solheim resigns as UN climate chief

Erik Solheim, the former Norwegian government minister and leader of the Socialist Left party (SV), has admitted to making mistakes in how he tried...

Critics try to block dual citizenship

The Center- and Labour parties are scrambling to block looming passage of a new law that would finally remove a long-standing ban on dual...

Norway joins criticism of China

Norway has joined some international criticism of China, after reports of how Chinese authorities have rounded up as many as 1 million ethnic minorities...

Split widens within Christian Democrats

The small Christian Democrats party (KrF), which may join Norway's conservative coalition government, is now so split itself that it faces an internal probe...
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