Tag: politics

Stoltenberg’s road to NATO

Labour Party leader Jens Stoltenberg, who'll be taking over this fall as the next secretary general of NATO, could finally offer some insight this...

Monitoring complaints rise

Complaints about alleged illegal monitoring by Norwegian intelligence services doubled from 21 in 2001 to more than 40 in 2013. The focus has increasingly...

Municipal mergers can save billions

Norway's new conservative government, keen on reforms that can boost productivity and modernize the public sector, took receipt this week of a new report...

Climate change ‘painful, costly’

NEWS ANALYSIS: Environmental groups were pleasantly surprised when Norway's new conservative government unveiled some new climate-friendly goals earlier this month, including full electrification of new...

Minister to evaluate new executive bonus rules

Norway's government minister in charge of business and trade, Monica Mæland, says she and her colleagues are evaluating new rules to limit the bonus...

Labour will elect new leader in June

The Norwegian Labour Party, faced with losing its popular longtime leader and prime minister candidate Jens Stoltenberg, decided on Monday that it will hold...

‘Time to clean up our language’

Jan Tore Sanner, dubbed by some as Norway's new "super minister" because of his wide range of government responsibility, worries that confusing language is...

Stoltenberg wins top NATO job

Jens Stoltenberg, Norway's highly popular former prime minister, has been chosen as the next civilian head of NATO, and politicians in Norway were already...

Stoltenberg ran into some critics

Some of the arguably harshest criticism to be lodged yet against the former government of Labour Party leader Jens Stoltenberg came just as speculation...

Parliament slams Mongstad failure

Parliament slammed the former Stoltenberg government's handling of full-scale carbon capture and storage plans at Statoil's Mongstad plant on Norway's west coast, in a...
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