Tag: politics

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...

Solberg failed to end budget battle

Prime Minister Erna Solberg finally stepped into the fray and spent much of the weekend trying to win support for her minority government's state budget...

Probe launched into Parliament’s building scandal

The disciplinary committee of the Norwegian Parliament has decided to investigate how and why an expansion project involving their own building has become victim...

‘Envy fuels higher taxes on Teslas’

Abid Raja, a Member of Parliament for the Liberal Party, was quick to blast a proposal by the Labour Party to eliminate some of...

City of Oslo fined in starvation case

The City of Oslo has been slapped with a heavy fine for negligence in the care of a woman who starved to death in her own...

‘Crisis’ looms over the state budget

Budget negotiations between Norway's minority government coalition and its two centrist support parties in Parliament have taken a turn for the worse. There was...

Labour to brake Tesla’s ‘free ride’

Tesla electric cars, branded by a Labour Party politician on Wednesday as "fun toys" for affluent men, may suddenly become much more expensive in Norway...

Electric cars lack recharging stations

It's tougher than ever to find available parking and recharging stations for electric cars in Oslo, and city officials warn it will get much...
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