Tag: politics

New union boss to pose challenges

Mette Nord, the woman recently elected to lead Norway's largest labour union, has vowed to further its left-leaning agenda. Nord says she will fight...

New oil discovery comes amidst cuts

Just as the Norwegian government is being urged to slow down the pace of offshore oil and gas production comes news that state-controlled Statoil...

Apartheid fight flares in Parliament

Norway's Parliament (Storting) opened its session on Monday with its president, Olemic Thommesen of the Conservatives, making a tribute to the late South African...

Erna finally more popular than Jens

Former Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg was a hard act to follow for successor Erna Solberg. Even though her Conservative Party won the last national...

Nobel ceremony as Mandela hailed

This year's Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo, always held on December 10, will proceed on Tuesday as tens of thousands of people simultaneously...

Diving platform took a dive

Local politicians in the inland city of Hamar were red-faced last week after news broke that a diving platform they'd planned to build along...

Breivik’s lawyer to head think tank

Geir Lippestad, the Norwegian lawyer who sprang to international fame when he defended confessed terrorist and mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik last year, has...

More overtures from Erna to EU

Prime Minister Erna Solberg and her new conservative government set off for Brussels this week on what Norwegians might call a "charm offensive." She's...

‘Neda’ family faces rejection again

UPDATED: A 12-year-old girl and her asylum-seeker family who spent a decade living in Norway are in "deep sorrow and crisis," after the Norwegian...

Housing prices tumble again

Housing prices in Norway fell an average of 1.3 percent from October to November, marking the third month in a row of price declines...
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