Tag: politics

Oil enthusiasm fails to dip on price fall

Oil prices have fallen recently and so has the value of Norway's currency, the krone, but that's not dampening enthusiasm for those who still...

Outgoing museum director gets golden handshake

Norwegian state officials normally frown on lucrative executive pay deals and severance packages but now find themselves as party to one: Audun Eckhoff, the...

Court to rule on Oslo’s property tax

Oslo's city government leaders from the Labour Party will now need to defend their new controversial property tax in court. They were sued over the questionable...

Conservatives open to dual citizenship

After years of debate, the Norwegian Conservative Party has voted in favour of clearing the way to allow dual citizenship in Norway. Since the Conservatives...

Political parties’ youth organizations unite on student housing demand

It’s not often that the youth organizations tied to all of Norway’s political parties agree on a common platform, but they have on the...

Parliament leader defies reprimand

The president of the Norwegian Parliament, Olemic Thommessen, is under fire and facing a public reprimand by the full multi-partisan membership of the parliament's disciplinary...

Journalist denied entry to Russia

UPDATED: Thomas Nilsen, editor of the highly acclaimed Independent Barents Observer in Kirkenes, seems to have become the latest symbol of tensions between Norway and Russia....

‘Team Erna’ takes aim at re-election

Prime Minister Erna Solberg gathered her party faithful on Thursday for the Conservatives' last annual national meeting before the next national election in September. Solberg...

Voter uncertainty reflected in the polls

One of the biggest problems for Norwegian voters heading into the upcoming national election is that no one knows for sure what a new government...

Biofuel may backfire as a budget bluff

Plans by the Norwegian government to mandate usage of much more biofuel, as another so-called "green" measure that helped secure last year's state budget compromise,...
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