Tag: politics

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...

Islamic extremists still biggest threat

Norway's state police intelligence unit PST still ranks Islamist extremists as posing the biggest threat against security in the country. Russian intelligence, however, has...

Støre rallies his ‘shamed’ troops

"It's time to close ranks," Labour Party leader Jonas Gahr Støre declared at an extraordinary national board meeting on Monday, "time to find ourselves...

Labour movement loses its steam

NEW ANALYSIS: It's not just Norway's Labour Party that has seemed to be imploding after decades of dominance. The labour movement itself, once a...

Threats on the rise against politicians

Fully two of every five politicians in Norway have found themselves the targets of threats so serious that police have needed to launch investigations...

Giske ‘broke rules’ but fights back

Drama and power struggles within the Norwegian Labour Party launched into yet another round after the party concluded that its suspended deputy leader Trond...

New effort launched to open stores on Sunday

Norway's new government minister Trine Skei Grande of the Liberal Party has sent a proposal out for hearing that would further ease restrictions on...

Deported Afghan refugees forced to flee

Seven out of 10 Afghan refugees who've returned to Afghanistan are forced to flee again, claimed the Norwegian Refugee Council (Flyktninghjelpen) this week. It...
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