Tag: politics

Solutions sought for old FM radios

As many as 7.9 million FM radios in Norway will either be useless or need adapters after the country's FM network is replaced by...

MPs debate lessons from Afghanistan

The Norwegian government and Members of Parliament (MPs) finally took time in the New Year to study and debate Norway's lengthy participation in the war in...

Labour’s love lost on Lofoten debate

Labour Party leader Jonas Gahr Støre has finally confirmed that Norway's scenic Lofoten islands need some tender loving care, with parts of their offshore waters protected from oil...

No new medals for World War heroes

The Norwegian government was catching flak this week for once again refusing to award medals to many World War II veterans, especially resistance forces that were attached to the...

Sp keen to exclude resident foreigners

Norway's rural-oriented Center Party (Senterpartiet, Sp) presented two key portions of its election platform on Friday that opponents claim will "punish" foreigners who have residence...

Statoil insists it’s also ‘going green’

Even as Statoil promoted a "fantastic portfolio" of oil drilling projects for 2017 this week, three of them in the sensitive Arctic, top officials insist the Norwegian...

Leaders clash at NHO conference

Norway's national employers' organization NHO gathered some of the most powerful business and political leaders in the country on Thursday for its annual conference...

Wolf critics howl over limited hunt

Hundreds of people who feel threatened by the roughly 68 wolves now roaming around eastern Norway turned out for a noisy demonstration in front...

Norway’s wolf hunt may be revived

UPDATED: Vidar Helgesen, the Norwegian government minister who all but shot down a controversial wolf hunt just before Christmas, now finds himself under enormous...

Government condemns more terrorism in Istanbul

Norwegian Foreign Minister Børge Brende visited the Turkish Embassy in Oslo on Monday, to express the government's sympathy and support after the country was...
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