Tag: politics

Angry Jagland angers others

Thorbjørn Jagland, the former Norwegian prime minister who's been serving as secretary general of the Council of Europe since 2009, has landed in conflicts...

Women consolidate their power to rule

NEWS ANALYSIS: First they all went to a rock concert together last weekend. The next day, reports newspaper Dagens Næringsliv (DN), the three women...

Russians ‘trained to invade Svalbard’

UPDATED: A Norwegian website dedicated to preventing another invasion of Norway was reporting on Wednesday that Russian forces mounted a mock invasion of Svalbard...

Siv’s ‘Pocahontas’ stunt backfired

Finance Minister Siv Jensen set off quite a fuss over her decision to attend an autumn party at the finance ministry last weekend, dressed as...

Søreide leads ministerial speculation

Norwegian Defense Minister Ine Eriksen Søreide was topping speculation this week over who will replace Børge Brende as Norway's new foreign minister. Brende is...

Little property tax relief in state budget

Even though Norway's conservative government coalition opposes property tax, it didn't do anything to prevent local governments from imposing it in the state budget....

Flood prevention funding reduced

The floodwaters that recently inundated many areas of Southern Norway have since receded, only to be replaced with a new flood of criticism against...

Critics blast lack of Oil Fund ‘buffers’

Norway's huge sovereign wealth fund known as the "Oil Fund" is far too vulnerable to swings in the financial markets, argue critics. They claim...

Conservatives still lead polls

As the Conservative and Progress parties defend their state budget proposal for next year, they can gain encouragement from the latest public opinion polls...

Triumphant Siv strides ahead

NEWS ANALYSIS: Warnings of an "autumn storm" breaking out in the Norwegian Parliament this week were premature. After a roughly 18-hour workday that began...
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