Tag: politics

Former Bergen mayor cleared

Trude Drevland, the once-high-profile mayor of Bergen, won't be indicted on corruption charges after all. Nor will Bergen's former harbour director, Inge Tangerås, or...

High court rules against dockers

Norway's highest court (Høyesterett) has rejected claims by a powerful Norwegian dock workers' union that they have exclusive rights to load and offload vessels. The landmark...

Carbon emissions rise once again

New figures released this week confirm that Norway's carbon emissions have risen once again, and the country's oil and gas industry is mostly to...

Statoil finally sells out of oil sands

Norwegian oil company Statoil finally did what climate activists, environmentalists and several top Norwegian politicians have been urging for years: Sell off the last...

Solberg hopes for a better New Year

Prime Minister Erna Solberg started off her annual  pre-holiday meeting with Norwegian reporters by lamenting all the horror and misery in Syria, before launching...

Finance minister tackles high debt

Worried about both rising debt levels and sky-high housing prices, Finance Minister Siv Jensen has rolled out a package of measures to make it...

No increase in interest rates

There'd been some speculation that the executive board of Norway's central bank would raise interest rates at its last meeting of the year on Thursday,...

Brekke keeps his job at Telenor

Sigve Brekke has survived a reported attempt by the leader of Telenor's board of directors to force his resignation as the company's chief executive....

Asylum seekers numbers continue to dive

Only 228 asylum seekers arrived in Norway in November, the lowest level so far this year and the lowest level in nearly 20 years....

‘Horrible’ refugee returns questioned

Several Members of Parliament are demanding answers from Immigration Minister Sylvi Listhaug regarding her active efforts to return asylum seekers to Aghanistan. Some are calling...
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