Tag: politics

Bottle deposit to double next year

Norway's standard bottle deposit of one krone, paid on purchase and refunded upon return of the bottle to recycling machines, is set to double...

Lobbyists target new cut-rate hair-cutter

Lobbying forces led by Norway's national employers' organization NHO are promoting new regulations that could snarl the business plan of the cut-rate hair-cutting chain...

Labour sinks into a post-election ‘crisis’

NEWS ANALYSIS: The Norwegian Labour Party and especially its embattled leader, Jonas Gahr Støre, have been clobbered by yet another rash of terrible poll...

New foreign minister gets down to work

Ine Eriksen Søreide, who succeeded Børge Brende as Norway's new foreign minister last month, has been busy settling into her new job and made...

Bishop also a victim of harassment

One of Norway's 12 bishops in The Norwegian Church has gone public with how she's been sexually harassed over the years and been sent...

Budget agreement saves government

UPDATED: Norway's conservative minority government coalition won support for its state budget proposal from the two other non-socialist parties in Parliament late Wednesday. The...

Politicians shamed into closing garage

Unpopular politicians at Oslo's City Hall have been removing or taxing street parking while having access to free parking themselves at City Hall's own...

Hagen’s Nobel dream dies hard

Progress Party politician Carl I Hagen can't simply resign from his elected duty as a substitute Member of Parliament (MP) in order to make...

Søreide puts more pressure on Suu Kyi

Foreign Minister Ine Eriksen Søreide made her first official trip to Asia in her new role this week. It landed her in the midst...

20,000 free parking spots to disappear

The City of Oslo started removing more free street parking on Monday. City officials are targeting the affluent west side district of Frogner first,...
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