Tag: politics

China’s envoy nurtured reconciliation

Hovering in the background of many of the official photos from events tied to Norway's and China's recent reconciliation is a tall Chinese man named Wang Min. His...

Farmers win more subsidy, protection

Norwegian farmers have proven themselves once again to be among the most powerful political lobbyists in the country. Now they have succeeded in blocking...

Cash survives, in new updated style

Serious, official efforts to turn Norway into a cashless society have been put on ice, just in time for the country's central bank to...

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...
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