Tag: politics

Labour pact hailed by everyone involved

NEWS ANALYSIS: Norway's conservative government coalition, with new Labour Minister Anniken Hauglie playing a key role, was getting much of the credit on Monday...

New football boss off to rough start

Terje Svendsen just recently took over as president of Norway's national football federation NFF (Norges Fotballforbund) and he's already getting kicked around. On Friday he...

Local democracy wins constitutional guarantee

After decades of arguing over its wording, two-thirds of the Members of Parliament finally agreed this week on a constitutional amendment that preserves local democracy...

Owner’s resignation relieves Westerdals

The decision by a member of one of Norway's most prominent family dynasties, the Løvenskiolds, to resign as head of the firm owning the Westerdals communications...

Peace can force refugee returns

Norway's new immigration minister, Sylvi Listhaug, isn't waiting to toughen asylum and immigration rules pending full consensus on a rash of new proposals. She's keen to...

Government parties rise in the polls

Despite all the complaints over rising unemployment and a weaker Norwegian economy, the two conservative political parties forming Norway's minority government coalition have logged...

Public sector snaps up laid-off experts

Norwegian towns and cities, and many state agencies, had trouble finding qualified geologists and engineers just a year ago, and couldn't compete with the...

Westerdals faces more legal claims

UPDATED: Education Minister Torbjørn Røe Isaksen isn't ruling out the possibility that the state will be filing more charges against the private Westerdals communications...

Families probed for exploiting au pair

Norway's state immigration agency UDI (Utlendingsdirektoratet) is evaluating whether as many as 45 Norwegian families should be prohibited from having the mostly young foreign women called au...

Police in Oslo disarmed again

It didn't last long: Just four days after being ordered to re-arm themselves, Oslo police received the opposite message over the weekend. As of...
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