Tag: politics

Secret Swiss accounts about to go public

Norwegians won't be able to stash away money in secret Swiss bank accounts for much longer. An agreement recently signed by Finance Minister Siv Jensen...

Aid in the billions heading for Syria

Prime Minister Erna Solberg and Foreign Minister Børge Brende have been busy this week raising more money for aid to Syria, and vowed that...

Oslo to restrict use of diesel vehicles

Oslo's new left-center city government was going ahead this week with placing restrictions on the use of vehicles fueled by diesel. No diesel driving...

Refugee returns blocked in the Arctic

No more asylum seekers who were turned down by Norway will be sent over the border to Russia at Storskog. After meetings in Moscow...

Ryanair to drop flights from Rygge

UPDATED: Cut-rate airline Ryanair is following through on its threat to stop flying from the private- and county-owned Rygge Airport in Moss, south of Oslo....

Emergency asylum centers shut down

An abrupt halt to the influx of refugees arriving in Norway has prompted Norway's state immigration agency UDI to cancel contracts it had to rent...

Cultural icon changed Norway

The man who scrapped Norway's state monopoly on broadcasting, and served as the country's first government minister in charge of culture, was laid to rest...

‘Power play’ linked to refugee drama

The ongoing drama in Norway's northernmost region, over suspended expulsions of unsuccessful asylum seekers from Russia, has been linked to an alleged Russian power play....

‘House of Commons’ to be rehabilitated

An old, run-down wooden house built the same year as Norway's Parliament, in 1866, has been standing for months in front of the national assembly...

Finance minister unveils details of employment measures

Norway’s conservative coalition government promised it would devote NOK 4 billion to measures aimed at combating the country’s rising unemployment rate, and last week...
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