Tag: politics

Color Line sails into choppy seas

The Norwegian cruise-ferry company Color Line has run into some choppy seas over its own efforts to chop crewing costs. The government is offering to ease costly...

Legal loophole may allow new wolf hunt

The Norwegian government, which dramatically pared back a major wolf hunt in Norway this winter on the grounds it could be illegal, was all but ordered...

Turmoil rules at Sami Parliament

Norway's Sami Parliament (Sametinget) is in the midst of high-level political turmoil. The Labour Party politician who took over as president just before Christmas wound...

Calls rise to help US-banned refugees

As outrage piles up over the US Trump Administration's sudden ban on asylum seekers and citizens of seven mostly Muslim countries, some Norwegians want to offer alternative...

Norway slams US’ refugee, travel ban

The Norwegian government, which often has called the US its "most important ally," was as upset as many others around the world this weekend after new US...

Norway recognizes its Holocaust role

The gloomy, foggy weather in Oslo on Friday was perhaps a fitting backdrop as Norwegian officials and mourners prepared to gather once again on...

Rema 1000 drops major suppliers

Grocery shopping in Norway has generated lots of criticism and complaints over the years, because of market concentration, high prices and relatively poor selection. Now one...

Labour promises hefty tax hike

Norway's Labour Party is openly promising that it will raise taxes by NOK 15 billion (USD 1.8 billion) if it wins back government control...

EU’s negotiator vows to defend EEA deal

Norwegian leaders seemed relieved after an all-day visit on Wednesday from Michel Barnier, the European Union's chief negotiator for a new trade deal with Great Britain after...

Political leaders bound for Moscow

For the first time since Russia controversially annexed Crimea, a high-ranking delegation from the Norwegian Parliament will be traveling to Moscow next week for talks with...
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