Tag: politics

Westerdals students seek compensation

Former students at the private Westerdals School of Communications have hired a lawyer to help them recover excessive amounts of school fees from the school's...

Wolf plan met by howls of protest

New proposals for maintaining a wolf population in Norway left all sides howling Friday in the ongoing wildlife management debate. The government claims it mostly...

General wins an unusual prize

It's not often that top military officers take part in the public debate, much less win an award for speaking openly on major social and...

Disputed airline seat tax postponed

Norway's government has, as expected, been forced to postpone implementation of a new airline seat tax that's highly disputed among the airlines, airport administrators...

Bergen drivers face huge new road tolls

City government officials in Bergen approved whopping tolls on commuters who opt to drive into the city on days when air pollution levels are...

Minister defers to UDI on Snowden

Norwegian immigration agency UDI (Utlendingsdirektoratet) has once again been handed the job of determining whether exiled American Edward Snowden can enter the country this...

Reaction mixed to surveillance plans

Proposals by Justice Minister Anders Anundsen to allow much more surveillance, wire taps, raids and data snooping in the fight against crime drew some...

Stortinget celebrates 150th anniversary

It's been called "impractical" and even "ugly" by prime ministers of the past, and one ambitious politician proposed abandoning it in favour of taking over...

Oil field starts up in disputed Barents

Italian oil company Eni could finally start up oil production at its Goliat field in the Barents Sea over the weekend, two years after...

Westerdals admits to irregularities

One of Oslo's major private schools, Westerdals, has admitted that it charged tuition fees for many years that were nearly twice what they should...
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