Tag: politics

Foreign minister meeting Duterte

Norwegian Foreign Minister Børge Brende was back in the Philippines on Friday, with plans to meet the island nation's controversial new president, Rodrigo Duterte. Between...

Parties gain on Trump’s election

Nearly all of Norway's political parties have registered strong gains in party membership this autumn, not least in the two weeks following the election of...

US envoy tries to reassure Norway

Samuel D Heins has only been the US' ambassador to Norway since last spring and now, since the election of a new president, he's...

Politicians avoid real emission cuts

As Norwegian politicians continued to quarrel this week over raising fuel taxes to cut carbon emissions, climate activists gathering in Oslo put the quarreling in perspective. They...

Norway braces for new refugee influx

Norway's immigration agency UDI (Utlendingsdirektoratet) is bracing for another influx of asylum seekers over its northern border to Russia. Officials won't specify why, but...

Officials not surprised by Telenor’s fine

The director of Norway's national communications authority (Nkom) says he's not surprised that fellow regulators at the state competition authority want to hit Telenor with...

Krekar held after high court loss

UPDATED: Islamic cleric Mullah Krekar was back under arrest Wednesday morning after Norway's highest court upheld two lower court rulings that Krekar can be extradited...

Facebook stunt backfires on everyone

Immigration Minister Sylvi Listhaug, established Norwegian media outlets, local actor Kristoffer Joner, the asylum advocacy organization NOAS and around 30,000 donors to NOAS all found...

Trade union federation funds two newspapers

Norway's largest trade union federation, LO, has voted to grant millions of kroner in funding to two newspapers, one of them the struggling Oslo-based Dagsavisen, in...

Climate ‘anchored’ in Marrakech

It took 10 hours of overtime talks, but Norway's Environment Minister Vidar Helgesen thinks the landmark UN climate agreement struck in Paris last December...
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