Tag: politics

Solberg rolls out new government

Prime Minister Erna Solberg and her new government partners were barely visible behind all their flowers as they met well-wishers outside the Royal Palace...

Grande confronts own sex rumours

Liberal Party leader Trine Skei Grande has felt a need to confront "rumours of a sexual character," just as she was about to be...

Ski jump’s costs soar, bailout sought

Oslo's Holmenkollen Ski Jump is called a "national facility," but it's long been a drain on the city's finances. Now Oslo officials are reviving...

Fur farmers fight pending shutdown

After repeated incidents of animal abuse and complaints from animal welfare activists, Norway's newly expanded coalition government now plans to phase out the entire...

Solberg expands her government

Prime Minister Erna Solberg could finally announce expansion of her Conservatives-led government coalition on Sunday afternoon. She confirmed its new platform with the non-socialist...

Sex scandals hit government parties

Norway's government coalition was shaken Friday by sex scandals in both its Progress and Conservative parties, just as it appeared poised to expand with...

Postal service to cut delivery once again

Norwegians stopped getting their mail delivered on Saturdays last fall. Now the Norwegian postal service (Posten) looks set to win state permission to only...

Government talks resumed at Jeløy

Prime Minister Erna Solberg was back at a snow-covered former radio station-turned-hotel on an island south of Oslo late this week, to resume negotiations...

Battle flares over control of SSB

Finance Minister Siv Jensen and the woman Jensen hired to run state statistics bureau SSB, Christine Meyer, squared off at a parliamentary hearing on...

Labour mourns a former leader

Just as Labour Party politicians were wrestling with their latest and deepest crisis this week came news that one of their last leaders from...
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