Tag: politics

Oil price collapse ‘is now behind us’

An optimistic Norwegian government presented a revised state budget on Thursday that proposes few changes in the annual budget for 2017 that was approved in December....

Progress Party won’t act on circumcision ban

Norway's conservative Progress Party created a fuss last weekend, when it decided at its national meeting to make a ban on circumcision of baby...

Oslo tries to crack down on begging

Oslo's Labour Party-led government has lost patience with all the migrants from Eastern Europe that beg on Oslo's streets and set up illegal and unsanitary camps....

Prudence prevails in use of Oil Fund

Even though Finance Minister Siv Jensen has tapped into more of Norway's oil revenues than any of her predecessors, to pad the state budget, the...

Israel objects to any circumcision ban

The Israeli Embassy in Oslo is criticizing a decision by Norway's conservative Progress Party over the weekend to support any proposed ban on circumcision...

Norway’s ‘success’ attracts North Korea

UPDATED: North Korea views Norway's social welfare state as a "success," according to an expert on the isolated country. That may be why talks are reportedly...

Norwegian leaders congratulate Macron

Prime Minister Erna Solberg and Labour Party leader Jonas Gahr Støre, head of the opposition in the Norwegian Parliament, were among those sending congratulations...

Solberg and Merkel plan for G20

Prime Minister Erna Solberg and German Chancellor Anglela Merkel were able to make some joint preparations for the upcoming G20 meeting in Hamburg this summer, when they...

Dual citizenship wins a nod, but ‘no’ to circumcision

Norway's Progress Party has become the latest to back dual citizenship, thus creating a majority in the current Parliament in favour of allowing Norwegian citizens...

Jensen rallies her shrunken party

Progress Party leader Siv Jensen left no doubt as she opened her party's annual meeting on Friday that she's determined to hang on to government...
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