Tag: politics

Pigs suffering at Norwegian farms

Agricuture Minister Jon Georg Dale has called the pork industry and its representatives in on the proverbial carpet, after terrible conditions have been revealed...

Giske fights on, as does his partner

The embattled Norwegian Labour Party's shamed star, Trond Giske, still isn't giving up his fight against all the sexual harassment charges that have piled...

NATO’s boss was ‘back home’ again

It was his older sister Camilla's 60th birthday on Monday but NATO boss Jens Stoltenberg was formally back in Norway on an official visit....

Climate concerns prompt an appeal

Environmental organizations Greenpeace and Natur og Ungdom  aren't accepting defeat in an Oslo city court, announcing on Monday that they will appeal for a...

Accused Norwegian spy feels ‘misused’

"I feel terribly misused," exclaimed Frode Berg, the retired Norwegian border inspector who was arrested in Moscow last month and charged with espionage. As...

British royals turn on the charm

Oslo was serving as the latest venue on Thursday for what's widely been called a "charm offensive" by the British government in the midst...

Anti-smoking law may spread

Norway's centrist Christian Democrats party wants to toughen and expand the country's ban on smoking that's been in effect for the past 15 years....

Parliament gets back to business

NEWS ANALYSIS: After weeks of sexual harassment scandals that all but paralyzed parliamentary politics in Norway, Prime Minister Erna Solberg's newly expanded government and...

High executive pay stirs up protests

It now only takes 21 work days for top executives in Norway to earn what's considered to be the country's average full-year salary of...

UD probes possible sanctions violation

Norway's foreign ministry (Utenriksdepartementet, UD) has confirmed that it's investigating complaints from Ukraine that ships have sailed from Norway with cargoes of metallic ore...
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