Tag: politics

Oslo residents get new property tax notices

The City of Oslo is in the process of sending out notices to 300,000 households that they're about to get hit with property tax....

Corruption net tightens around Telenor

Top state politicians appear intent on holding Telenor accountable for the corruption that's been admitted to have occurred at its partly owned mobile phone...

Fewer Norwegians hail immigration

A new survey shows that the numbers of Norwegians who think immigration is good for the country have fallen markedly during the past year....

Hydro fends off corruption concerns

One of Norway's biggest international companies, Hydro, has been trying hard to control and contain information about its controversial past in the former Soviet republic of...

X Games open as doping fight rages

Skateboarders, snowboarders and skiers were to start competing at the X Games in Oslo on Thursday, amidst charges that organizers of the event have failed...

Labour open to restoring inheritance tax

The Labour Party is already in the process of imposing new property tax on Oslo residents and now its national organization reportedly is considering...

Pegida leader fired from teaching post

Max Hermansen, the leader of the Pegida chapter in Norway that opposes immigration of Muslims, has effectively been fired from his job as a...

Reaction mixed to huge windmill plan

Both praise and objections were blowing around Norwegian plans announced on Tuesday to go ahead with what's billed as the largest land-based windmill project...

Unions brace for lower pay growth

Norway's most powerful unions were gathering Tuesday to agree on their demands for collective bargaining this spring, amidst reports that wage growth in the country has...

Corruption cloud hangs over Hydro

Last week it was being hailed by the prime minister. This week Norway's large industrial firm Hydro was confronted with suspicions that it has become the...
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