Tag: politics

Health minister approves Oslo hospital plan

Health Minister Bent Høie has approved plans to radically restructure Oslo's state-owned hospitals. The historic and sprawling Ullevål University Hospital will be shut down, and...

Oslo court rejects Snowden’s lawsuit

An Oslo city court has rejected a legal attempt to make it safe for US whistleblower Edward Snowden to travel to Norway receive a...

Brende braces for the Brexit storm

Foreign Minister Børge Brende is advising Norwegians "to sit still in the boat" as the storm rises around Great Britian's pending withdrawal from the European...

Minister was target of a cake attack

UPDATED: A young British woman who attacked a Norwegian government minister with a cake during Saturday's Pride Parade in Oslo was ordered jailed for...

Lien set to delay carbon capture

Norway's Oil & Energy Minister Tord Lien confirmed on Friday, when Norwegian media outlets were preoccupied with news about British voters deciding to leave the EU,...

Political reaction muted in Norway

NEWS ANALYSIS: Norwegian politicians were mostly regretting British voters' decision to leave the European Union (EU) but reaction was muted and cautious, not least...

Norway’s anti-EU camp cheers Brexit

While most Norwegian government ministers were hoping Britain remains in the EU, those leading Norway's Nei til EU (No to the EU) movement were cheering...

‘We’re used to others deciding’

Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg, who's long wanted Norway to join the European Union (EU) and thus have a say in forming its policy, was...

Key interest rate kept low and steady

Central bank boss Øystein Olsen capped off weeks of celebrating Norges Bank's bicentennial by announcing Thursday that its executive board had decided to keep...

Russia cleared of a ‘war’ on Norway

It's much quieter now at the border between Norway and Russia, and two senior researchers at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute in Norway are dismissing...
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