Tag: politics

Hospital protests break out in Oslo

Reality is setting in for Oslo-area residents and their political representatives, that they face losing their biggest local hospital. The state plans to phase...

Arctic Fund Management dumps Hydro

Norwegian aluminum producer Norsk Hydro has had a rough year and at least one funds manager in Oslo seems to have lost patience. Newspaper...

Debate erupts over cuts in sick pay

Employees in Norway can currently call in sick and still collect full pay, with a doctor's evaluation only required after three days away from...

State sympathetic to road toll fury

New Transport Minister Jon Georg Dale summoned all local mayors in the Stavanger area to an emergency meeting on Monday, to address an uproar...

Politicians kick off election campaigns

Media attention in Norway was directed firmly at Sweden during its dramatic national election over the weekend, but top Norwegian politicians were also out...

PST: Sandberg’s phone likely hacked

Norway's police intelligence unit PST (Politiets sikkerhetstjeneste) has determined that there's a high probability that the government-issued mobile phone that former minister Per Sandberg...

Norways stops leasing Dutch jail space

The Norwegian government claims it has succeeded in its efforts to shorten the waiting lists of convicts needing to serve jail time. After having...

Here comes NATO: Convoys hit the road

Norwegians were set to have some of their first close encounters with major military convoys this weekend, after a German military cargo ship tied...

Christian Democrats resurrect reforms

Norway's controversial regional reform plans were descending into utter chaos this week. Just as work on another of the biggest county mergers seemed to...

Road toll uproar rolled into Oslo

UPDATED: Hundreds of motorists in the Oslo area drove very slowly on the main E18 highway into the Norwegian capital Thursday evening, part of...
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