Tag: politics

Solberg reins in errant minister

Prime Minister Erna Solberg has broken her initial silence over Fisheries Minister Per Sandberg's controversial summer holiday in Iran. Now she claims there's "no...

Holiday in Iran hounds minister

Fisheries Minister Per Sandberg claims his summer holiday in Iran this month was strictly private, but it's been raising plenty of very public questions....

Labour suffers yet another big loss

Labour Party officials and many others were mourning the death during the weekend of Hans Kristian Amundsen, a former newspaper editor and top adviser to...

Oslo police probe hatred towards AUF

Someone has been sending hateful and threatening messages to members of the Norwegian Labour Party's youth organization AUF, seven years after it was targeted...

Labour long a target of hate, conspiracy

Seven years after the Norwegian Labour Party, its youth group AUF and Norway's Labour-led government at the time were attacked by a right-wing, anti-immigration...

Farmers demand more crisis help

The state agriculture ministry has rolled out 11 new measures to further help farmers tackle Norway's worst drought in more than 50 years. Farmers'...

Stoltenberg wins praise amidst grief

The man who guided Norway through its worst crisis since World War II is now doing the same as leader of the world's biggest...

EU confirms exemption for Norwegian steel

Norway's trade agreement with the European Union (known as the EØS-avtale) was getting credit for its official exemption this week from the EU's new...

Council of Europe dumps former MP

Karin Woldseth, a former Member of Parliament for Norway's Progress Party, has been stripped of her title as an honorary member of the Council...

Trump may push Norway into the EU

Norwegians on both ends of the political spectrum are suddenly starting to speak seriously about the need for a new public discussion about joining...

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