Tag: politics

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,...

Parties reject Hagen as Nobel candidate

A majority of all the political parties in Parliament asked the Progress Party on Monday to find a candidate other than its former leader,...

Threats lodged against city politician

Lan Marie Nguyen Berg of the Greens Party has received so many threats from angry city residents that the City of Oslo is reporting...

Erdogan ‘milking’ NATO and Norway

UPDATED: Turkey's authoritarian president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was "milking" an offensive incident at a NATO exercise in Norway last week for all it's worth...

Climate activists hail oil divestments

NEWS ANALYSIS: After years of trying to steer the Norwegian government away from more investment in its oil industry, because of the damage it...

Nobel nomination stirs up a storm

The conservative Progress Party's decision to ultimately nominate their former leader Carl I Hagen for a seat on the Norwegian Nobel Committee has set...

Parliament grants refugees a reprieve

Young refugees who fled terror and a dismal future in Afghanistan, but failed to win asylum in Norway, will no longer be all but...

Troubled ‘Goliat’ knocked out again

Norway's Labour Minister Anniken Hauglie has vowed that the chronically troubled Goliat platform in the Barents Sea won't be allowed to restart operations until...
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