Tag: politics

Cross-border trade rises again

Norwegians are still streaming over the border to Sweden to go shopping, even though they're not getting much of a currency exchange advantage anymore....

Women mobilize for major march

Women currently hold the four most powerful positions in Norway, have arguably the best equal rights in the world and generous social welfare benefits...

Government MPs make OL demands

Members of Parliament from both parties in government have sent a list of seven demands that they think organizers of a Winter Olympics (OL)...

OSCE fears bloodbath in Crimea

A High Commissioner of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) described the situation on the Crimean Peninsula of Ukraine as "alarming"...

Norway pledges Ukrainian support

Norwegian Foreign Minister Børge Brende was in Kiev on Thursday to hold talks with acting President Oleksandr Turtsjynov and offer economic support to the...

Foreigners deported in record numbers

Almost 1,160 foreigners have been forcibly removed from Norway so far this year, a 40 percent rise on the same time last year. The...

One in six asylum children can stay

After heated debate, Norway's coalition parties finally agreed on a new asylum and immigration framework late last week. Children's right to asylum was one...

‘Most dangerous’ since the wall fell

Norway's Prime Minister Erna Solberg said on Wednesday morning the conflict between Russia and Ukraine was "the most dangerous situation since the fall of...

Ratings soared with popular professor

Frank Aarebrot, a highly popular professor at the University of Bergen, managed to lure more than 200,000 TV viewers in Norway away from the...

PST: Government ignored terror threat

The Norwegian Police Security Service (Politiets sikkerhetstjeneste, PST) warned the threat of a terror attack within the country is still increasing, with the greatest...
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