Norway’s election campaign season is relatively short, with an official launch in August and running until Election Day, the second Monday in September. Members of all nine political parties currently represented in Parliament, though, have been jockeying for power since the last election. Here’s a guide to where they stand on key issues in this […]

Norway’s next generation has spoken, and they prefer new national political leadership from the left side of Norwegian politics. Jonas Gahr Støre and his Labour Party trounced the Conservatives in the traditional election held at high schools all over the country on Tuesday. Labour won 23.3 percent of the vote, 4.5 points less than before […]

Government minister Kjell Ingolf Ropstad, leader of the embattled Christian Democrats party, added to his own political woes on Monday when he had to apologize for taking advantage of the state’s housing benefit for politicians who commute to Oslo. The 36-year-old Ropstad didn’t report moving out of his parents’ home in Southern Norway until just […]

With less than two weeks to go before Norway’s national election, polls indicate nothing less than what commentators are calling a political thriller. The Labour, Center and Socialist Left parties have lost their majority that seemed so certain since last winter, meaning the country may end up leaning even farther to the left, or keeping the […]