Tag: politics

Income tax revenues hit NOK 620 billion

When Norwegian tax authorities released the results of the most recent tax year on Friday, the annual media frenzy concentrated on individuals. Countless stories...

Indian costumes sell out for Halloween

Many Norwegians have embraced the Halloween holiday long popular in the US, along with the opportunity it presents to dress up in costumes and...

Scope of Oslo’s housing scandal grows

Nearly NOK 700 million worth of residential real estate purchases by the City of Oslo, for use as housing units for troubled or financially...

Man charged in city housing scandal

UPDATED: Norway's economic crime unit Økokrim has launched an investigation of its own into the City of Oslo's questionable purchases, at inflated prices, of...

Chinese firm fights bridge ‘boycott’

Just six months after top Norwegian politicians mended relations with China, some local ones in the county of Nord-Trøndelag have so angered a Chinese...

Housing scandal unfolds in Oslo

Political and administrative officials at Oslo's City Hall are alarmed, and accused of lacking control, after newspaper Dagens Næringsliv (DN) revealed a pattern of suspicious...

Oil Fund caught in a power struggle

The head of Norway's central bank, Øystein Olsen, and the man running the central bank's unit in charge of managing Norway's huge Oil Fund,...

Trump chooses envoy to Norway

US President Donald Trump has announced that he intends to nominate a retired rear admiral who now works for a health care strategy company...

‘An historic day for Norway as a nation’

There was reason for smiles and laughter amidst the fall foliage in Prime Minister Erna Solberg's garden on Friday. Even academic political experts were...

Solberg presents new ministers

It's official: Ine Eriksen Søreide is now Norway's new foreign minister and the first woman to ever hold the post. Prime Minister Erna Solberg...
1...187188189...507Page 188 of 507

FOR THE RECORD

MOST READ THIS WEEK

CURRENCY RATES
For up-to-date info on exchange rates and currency news, Newsinenglish.no recommends ExchangeRates.org.uk - Exchange Rates UK
For more news on Arctic developments.