Tag: politics

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...

Intelligence agency lifts the veil

Norway's national military intelligence service (NIS, or Etteretningstjenesten) will be more open about its staff, operations and intelligence gathering, promises NIS Chief Kjell Grandhagen....

Britain backs Stoltenberg for NATO

British Prime Minister David Cameron has publicly announced his support for former Norwegian prime minister Jens Stoltenberg to take on the top job at...

Jury’s out on Norwegian courts

Norway's jury system could be set for an overhaul after the Conservative party (Høyre) gained more support for its push to change juries' role...

Retirees face losing their discounts

Thousands of Norwegian seniors are starting to lose their traditional discounts on everything from cinema tickets to public transportation, or at least see them...

Ex-oil boss warns against Russia

As world leaders gathered in The Hague and Brussels this week to discuss security and politics, the first chief executive of Statoil is warning...
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