Tag: politics

Grocery stores blamed for higher prices

UPDATED: Prices have been rising again at Norwegian grocery stores, and a new study suggests the grocery store owners are padding their margins and pocketing more...

Employer reps log high incomes

As employer representatives and labour leaders sat down this week to negotiate annual wage settlements for workers, their own incomes were under scrutiny as...

Catholic Church denies wrongdoing

Catholic Church officials have apologized for any misunderstandings, but maintain they have not received an undue amount of state financial support in Norway and...

‘No warning’ of Russian exercises

Norwegian officials claim they're "closely following" Russia's sudden and dramatic show of military might in the Arctic, which they say Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered...

Military alarms ring in the Arctic

Both Norwegian and Russian military alarms were sounding over troop levels and movements in the Arctic on Monday, on both sides of the border. It...

LO leader earns more than Erna

Gerd Kristiansen, leader of Norway's largest trade union federation LO, earns more than Prime Minister Erna Solberg, according to a new survey of labour leaders'...

Debt levels worry finance minister

Norway's economy doesn't face any crisis, Finance Minister Siv Jensen has said, but she's growing increasingly worried about household debt levels in the country. Ever-rising...

Whaling comes under fire again

The Washington-based Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) has called on the Norwegian government to stop supporting research into alternative uses for whale meat and blubber,...

The Socialist Left fights for its life

Norway's once-influential Socialist Left party (Sosialistisk Venstreparti, SV) was badly beaten in the last national election and is now merely a shadow of its former...

Work rules eased, no one pleased

UPDATED: Neither the labour movement nor employer representatives were happy after Norway's conservative two-party government struck a deal Thursday with its support parties in...
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