Tag: politics

Norway urged to aid boat refugees

Norway, known as a leading maritime nation, is facing rising calls to offer more help in tackling the thousands of boat refugees who try to cross...

DAB set to replace FM radio in Norway

Norway looks set to become one of the first countries in the world to fully digitalize radio, after the government minister in charge of cultural...

Political support for more Syrians

The Norwegian Labour Party signaled on Thursday that there's now a majority in Parliament for Norway to accept as many as 10,000 more refugees from Syria who can...

China trade rises despite boycott

Even though China has been politically punishing Norway since 2010, when the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Peace Prize to Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo,...

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...
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