Tag: politics

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...

Government fires Telenor chairman

Svein Aaser resigned under fire on Friday as chairman of state-controlled telecoms firm Telenor, after Trade Minister Monica Mæland expressed a lack of confidence in...

Foreign aid funds tapped for refugees

Prime Minister Erna Solberg confirmed on Friday that her government wants to use NOK 4.2 billion from its foreign aid budget to help meet the...

Searching for the Oil Fund’s soul

NEWS ANALYSIS: Since its inception around two decades ago, Norwegians have arguably had a love-hate relationship with their huge so-called "Oil Fund" that invests...

Government tackles rising jobless rate

Another 9,000 people were registered as out of work in Norway by the end of September, prompting state statistics bureau SSB (Statistics Norway) to...

Large new asylum center already full

Norway's largest and newest asylum reception center impressed King Harald and Queen Sonja when it opened just last week. Now it's already fully booked, illustrating...

Military aware of Russian ‘spy ship’ off Røst

Norwegian military officials confirmed on Monday that they were aware that a new Russian research vessel, believed to be used for spying, was sailing...
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