Tag: politics

Ex-Telenor star remains in jail

A court in Oslo refused to go along Friday with a prosecutor's request to keep former Telenor "wonderboy" Jo Lunder in custody. The court found...

Budget battle turns tougher than ever

It's been called the most "explosive political drama" to play out in Prime Minister Erna Solberg's government yet. A series of unsuccessful meetings this...

Politics permeate Telenor probe

NEWS ANALYSIS: The drama around Telenor's involvement in alleged corruption at its partly owned Russian mobile phone VimpelCom is rife with politics. While a former Labour Party boss...

Telenor ‘wonderboy’ now under arrest

He was once the "wonderboy" of Telenor, who ended up playing a key role in Telenor's long-troubled investment in Russian mobile phone company VimpelCom....

Calls rise to shut Russian border

Serious calls are being issued this week, also on the floor of Parliament, to close Norway's far northern border to Russia. Years of border cooperation...

Telenor admits to withholding info

UPDATED: "They need to learn the difference between right and wrong," thundered the head of the Norwegian Parliament's disciplinary committee on Tuesday. "They" referred to newly...

Norway’s very own ‘House of Commons’

PHOTO FEATURE: A shabby old wooden house has risen outside Norway's Parliament building in downtown Oslo. It's an unusual art project that since late...

Hotels, barracks to house refugees

An acute shortage of housing for refugees has resulted in hundreds being sent to the mountains of Norway and put up in hotels. The boss...

Telenor caught in cloud of suspicion

NEWS ANALYSIS: Another of Norway's biggest state-controlled companies, Telenor, is facing serious and ever-growing corruption suspicions around its business expansion abroad. Some of the biggest...

Church confirms same-sex marriages

The bishops of The Norwegian Church (Den Norske Kirke) announced on Friday that they had given their blessing to the creation of a new liturgy...
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