Tag: politics

Støre details effort for peace in Libya

While Norwegian fighter jets were bombing Libya in the spring of 2011, Norway's foreign minister at the time got the son of the country's...

State needs new police director

Norway's justice ministry will soon be launching a search for a new director of the state police. Current state police director Odd Reidar Humlegård...

Oslo schools caught in power struggle

An unusually nasty power struggle over control of Norway's largest school district now threatens to topple Oslo's entire city government. The struggle pits longtime...

Norway ready for post-Brexit talks

The Norwegian government has a delegation ready to launch more formal negotiations over Norway's looming bilateral relationship with the UK once it leaves the...

UN Security Council campaign picks up

Crown Prince Haakon has already kicked off the lobbying effort and now it will be followed up by one of Norway's most internationally well-known...

Norway still the best place to live

The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has once again ranked Norway as the best country in the world in which to live. Norway scored...

Calls rise to invite Putin to Finnmark

Next fall marks the 75th anniversary of how Soviet forces liberated Norway's northernmost county of Finnmark from the clutches of Nazi German occupiers in...

Ex-ministers regret bombing, not Jens

Two top government colleagues of Norway's former prime minister, Jens Stoltenberg, now say that the Stoltenberg Government should not have taken part in NATO's...

Norway ill-advised on bombing Libya

A state commission has concluded that Norwegian politicians knew too little about the situation in Libya before the Parliament and former Labour Party-led government...

Former minister scolded by the UN

Norway's former minister of both the environment and foreign aid, Erik Solheim, is facing a severe scolding from auditors at the United Nations over...
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