Tag: politics

Big cost overruns at new Oslo library

Oslo's new main library, now under construction on the waterfront at Bjørvika, will be further delayed and cost much more than initially expected. City...

Støre ‘surprised’ by China’s boycott

Labour Party leader Jonas Gahr Støre granted lots of interviews this week as he prepared to lead his party's annual meeting for the first time....

Labour’s leader gathers his flock

Jonas Gahr Støre, the former foreign minister who now heads the Norwegian Labour Party, will be leading the party's annual national meeting for the...

Roadbuilding rolls in a new direction

Government leaders think they've finally found a way to remove the roadblocks that have stymied roadbuilding in Norway for decades. They're setting up a...

Solberg meets Indonesian leaders

Prime Minister Erna Solberg is on an official visit to Indonesia this week, meeting both political and religious leaders for a wide range of...

Oil industry hits a mid-life crisis

Norway's oil industry has just passed an important 50th anniversary but there wasn't much mood to celebrate. The industry finds itself grappling with a dive in...

Russian relations in new cold phase

Norway's top military envoy to NATO agrees with Defense Minister Ine Eriksen Søreide that the country has landed in a new period of much colder relations with Russia...

Security guards: ‘We can’t do our job’

Security guards working in and outside Norway's government ministries and at the residence of the prime minister say they can't do their jobs, since they've...

Stoltenbergs urged Nordic defense pact

NEWS ANALYSIS: NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg has welcomed a "strengthened cooperation" signaled by government ministers of the Nordic countries late last week, and that's no...

Welfare boss fired after huge losses

The boss of Norway's huge social welfare and employment agency NAV was relieved of his duties on Friday after more criticism of NAV's operations....
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