Tag: politics

New rhetoric on Russia under fire

Flowers and candlelight outside the Russian Embassy in Oslo on Sunday reflected local concern and alarm over the assassination of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov. As the...

‘Unhappy’ bishop denies fraud charges

Bishop Bernt Eidsvig, the top official of the Catholic Church in Norway, has formally denied charges that he and other leaders of the Catholic...

Catholic diocese raided in Oslo

UPDATED: Norwegian police raided the offices of the Catholic Church's diocese in Oslo on Thursday, and charged the diocese, Bishop Bernt Eidsvig and the church's...

Lippestad cuts ties with Breivik

Geir Lippestad, the lawyer who defended right-wing terrorist Anders Behring Breivik, will no longer be helping Breivik with his ongoing legal complaints from prison....

Police won’t be permanently armed

Norway's conservative minority government has signaled that it plans to withdraw its proposal for a new law that would allow the country's state police...

Erna silenced critics with her dyslexia

Prime Minister Erna Solberg has been open about her life-long struggle with dyslexia, and perhaps never moreso than this week, when she faced criticism...

Crown Prince to act in Krekar case

Crown Prince Haakon is being called upon to act in the state's efforts to confine Islamic cleric Mullah Krekar until he can be deported. Prosectors...

Government huddles for crisis meeting

NEWS ANALYSIS: Norway's conservative minority government seems to be teetering on the brink of collapse, given the ongoing discontent among the four parties behind...

Citizenship rules come under fire

The rules qualifying foreigners for Norwegian citizenship have come under fire on several fronts lately, with a proposed test of applicants' Norwegian knowledge branded as...

‘Dark day’ for the government

Top politician Per Sandberg's "half-hearted" apology for what's been called his "unprecedented verbal assault" on the Christian Democrats was threatening his own government on Friday. The...
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