Tag: politics

Trawler remains trapped in Murmansk

The Norwegian owner of the fishing trawler Remøy has called its arrest in Murmansk and the subsequent idling of its crew "surreal," and they...

Solberg echoes Merkel on NATO

Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg was making headlines in her homeland this week after describing the mood at last week's NATO summit in Brussels...

Minister disappoints on human rights

UPDATED: Norway's Culture Minister Linda Hofstad Helleland wound up a six-day trip to China over the weekend without mentioning a word about human rights...

Government tries to toughen jail terms

Norway's conservative government coalition hopes to raise the maximum jail terms judges can hand out in cases of violent and sexual crime. It had to...

Støre accused of double standard

Labour Party leader Jonas Gahr Støre has run into trouble after newspaper Dagbladet revealed last week that his family firm, Femstø AS, invested in two...

‘Norway is not prepared for terror’

Retired Norwegian general Robert Mood is openly defying recent claims by Justice Minister Per-Willy Amundsen that Norway "has never been better prepared" for a...

Politician rode metro without buying a ticket

Member of Parliament Hadia Tajik, a former government minister who now ranks as deputy leader of the Labour Party, managed to avoid a fine after...

‘Pleasing Trump is not most important’

Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg was firm in her convictions this week that NATO members in Europe are already making a major contribution to...

New plans unveiled for the capital’s hub

SEE THE ILLUSTRATIONS: Norway's complex of government ministries in downtown Oslo, known as Regjeringskvartalet, was heavily damaged and partially destroyed by a right-wing terrorist's bomb in 2011. Plans...

Norwegian ministers stream to China

"I love China!" exclaimed Norway's fisheries minister Per Sandberg after landing in Beijing this week. He's leading a large delegation of Norwegian seafood exporters...
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