Tag: politics

Hydro boss is state’s best-paid

Svein Richard Brandtzæg, chief executive of Norsk Hydro, earned the most last year of all the bosses of large Norwegian companies in which the state...

Sandberg breaks ministerial boycott

Per Sandberg of Norway's conservative Progress Party has become the first Norwegian government minister to visit Russia in more than two years. He declared that...

Songbirds also in the firing line

Golden eagles aren't the only birds in Norway to land in the firing line in recent weeks. Protests are also flying over a proposal...

Protests fly over new eagle hunt

A controversial new project to allow limited hunting of Norway's otherwise protected golden eagles (kongeørn) has set off widespread protests. The farmer-friendly Center Party won...

Human Rights Watch praises Norway’s new transgender rights

The human rights organization Human Rights Watch was praising a new health care law in Norway, approved this week in the annual rush of...

Parliament softens asylum reform

Norway won't be making its new immigration and asylum rules as strict as the tough-talking Immigration Minister Sylvi Listhaug wanted them to be. She didn't manage...

Greens party backs dual citizenship

Norway's small but potentially powerful Greens party (Miljøpartiet De Grønne, MDG) decided during its national board meeting over the weekend to support rising calls...

Report blasts efforts to aid Afghanistan

Norway's efforts to help create a stable and democratic state in Afghanistan have been all but wasted, according to a report on Norway's involvment...

Oslo commuters face even higher tolls

After years of quarreling over how to relieve congestion on the E18 highway into Oslo, how to finance it and even whether the road's capacity...

Fuel car ban plan shifts into reverse

UPDATED: Key politicians in Norway's conservative government were already backpedaling Monday on news that the country would ban sales of diesel- and gasoline-driven vehicles from...
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