Tag: politics

Jensen ready to readjust economy

Finance Minister Siv Jensen, reacting to Thursday's surprise cut in interest rates, claimed Friday that no one should be surprised that the Norwegian economy...

Fur industry fends off latest scandal

Horrific video taken inside various fur farms around Norway in recent months has once again documented what state authorities have called "shocking" evidence of...

Justice minister settles asylum conflict

Justice Minister Anders Anundsen of the conservative Progress Party has been under pressure for weeks, with opposition parties and media accusing him of failing...

Telenor boss quits VimpelCom board

Jon Fredrik Baksaas, chief executive officer of Norwegian telecoms giant Telenor, has resigned his seat on the board of mobile phone operator VimpelCom, which...

Critics blast critics of Nobel committee

Political debate continued to fly this week over criticism lodged against the Norwegian Nobel Committee during the weekend by its own retiring secretary Geir Lundestad, the longtime...

Chicken sales fall on antibiotics scare

Grocery stores and poultry producers in Norway confirmed over the weekend that chicken sales have fallen after news that some antibiotic-resistant bacteria had been...

Nobel director exits with a bang

The retiring director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute has unleashed some political dynamite about the people who award the Nobel Peace Prize, just days before...

New work rules set to halt flights

Political opponents and labour organizations are so upset over looming changes in Norwegian work rules that one union, representing airline cabin crews, vows to halt...

King ‘very sorry’ poor were evicted

Norway's King Harald V said on Friday that he was "very sorry" to learn that authorities in Myanmar had forcibly evicted poor families from...

Norway’s pledge boosts climate fund

The Norwegian government announced Friday that it will donate NOK 1.6 billion (USD 230 million) over the next four years to the Green Climate...
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