Tag: politics

Equinor hailed over wind power project

Norway's state oil and energy company Equinor was winning widespread and unusual praise on Wednesday from environmental organizations and politicians, after it announced plans...

Road toll tensions high in Stavanger

Tensions are so high over much higher road tolls in the Stavanger area that local authorities feel compelled to call in police, to provide...

Solberg hangs on to power, for now

UPDATED: Prime Minister Erna Solberg showed at least some of the humility expected of her when she faced the Parliament's disciplinary committee Monday evening....

Trump ‘morally bankrupt’

Norway's biggest newspaper, and a relatively conservative one at that, editorialized over the weekend that US President Donald Trump is "morally bankrupt." Aftenposten wrote...

Opposition feels misled by Solberg

Several opposition parties in Parliament think Prime Minister Erna Solberg misinformed Parliament when she reported that work was on track to secure important buildings...

Government grilled on security issues

NEWS ANALYSIS: Seven years after a right-wing extremist's bomb destroyed Norway's government headquarters in Oslo, film crews were recreating the grim scene over the...

Stoltenberg, Støre also broke rules

Former Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, who's now secretary general of NATO, and his former Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre both took their government-issued mobile...

Population growth slows nationwide

Much lower immigration and fewer births have led to a population growth rate in Norway that's lower than it's been for more than a...

No salvation for Christian Democrats

UPDATED: Knut Arild Hareide is suddenly having huge problems leading his flock in the small but powerful Christian Democrats party. A lesbian wedding involving...

Road toll revolt rolls over Rogaland

"Folks aren't only angry, they're really, really furious," one of the many Rogaland County residents who live in and around Stavanger fumed this week. He...
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