Tag: politics

Minister clarifies post-Brexit plan

Norway's government minister in charge of business and trade, Monica Mæland, has now sent a letter to her British counterpart, Liam Fox, to assure him...

Asker is the best place to live in Norway

Asker, an affluent community located between Oslo and Drammen, is Norway's best place to live, as measured in terms of municipal service rated by the...

Bishop: ‘Let illegals work and pay tax’

Bishop Emeritus Tor Berger Jørgensen is calling on the Norwegian government to allow everyone who has been living illegally in Norway for five years or...

State won’t force an end to train strike

Transport Minister Ketil Solvik-Olsen has called an ongoing train strike in southeastern Norway "extremely unfortunate," but claimed this week that he had no plans to order...

Government halted hospital strike

Labour Minister Anniken Hauglie of the Conservative Party ordered an end to Norway's longest hospital strike ever Tuesday evening. All striking doctors and other medical...

Spying chief rejects calls for openness

Some residents of Northern Norway aren't at all happy about the amount of intelligence gathering going on in their communities and who's involved in...

Most all Afghan men fail to win asylum

New figures from the EU's statistics bureau Eurostat show that 99 percent of all men from Afghanistan who seek asylum in Norway are rejected....

Reports of a post-Brexit UK-Norway trade deal not correct

Reports on Monday that British Trade Minister Liam Fox wanted to set up a British-Norwegian working group to prepare a new post-Brexit trade deal...

Harder times hasn’t corked the Champagne

Even though Norway has been going through an economic slowdown, the government is once again boosting its spending on what's diplomatically called "representation:" Receptions,...

Canons roared as state visit from Singapore began

The president of Singapore Tony Tan Keng Yam and his wife Mary Tan arrived in Oslo on Monday for the first state visit ever...
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