Tag: politics

Giske wins ovation from party faithful

Like a prodigal son returning to the fold, shamed Labour Party politician Trond Giske made his first public appearance over the weekend, back among...

State may transfer 5,000 jobs to the counties

A commission set up by the state ministry in charge of local government administration and modernization has proposed shutting down three state agencies and...

Progress Party finds a new Nobel man

Norway's conservative Progress Party has found a new conservative candidate to fill the seat it's been allotted on the Norwegian Nobel Committee. Scholar Asle...

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....
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