Tag: politics

New fighter jets due to arrive

Norway can finally expect delivery of the first of its new F35 fighter jets from the US later this week. Three of the F35s...

Static over statistics sets off a storm

Heated conflicts are currently swirling in and around an unlikely target: Norway's state statistics bureau SSB. Pending transfers of several of its top researchers,...

Prime ministers make new history

Six of Norway's prime ministers over the past 36 years are making history once again. Several were formerly bitter political foes, but now they...

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,...
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