Tag: politics

Drug addicts demand ‘more dignified life’

A group of drug addicts marched through Oslo again this week and were invited inside the Parliament to make their demands for what they...

Oil, protectionism mar Norway’s foreign aid status

Norway ranks third-highest in the world in support for developing countries and fighting poverty, but its oil production and protectionist trade barriers keep the...

New day dawns for EU relations

NEWS ANALYSIS: Prime Minister Erna Solberg promised better relations with the European Union (EU) before she was elected, and now her fellow ministers are...

‘Now we need to all calm down’

Prime Minister Erna Solberg switched her standpoint on Tuesday and embraced her own military's claim that the US wasn't tracking millions of Norwegian phone...

‘Dialogue’ with US ‘will continue’

Prime Minister Erna Solberg said Tuesday that she wasn't as surprised as other politicians seemed to be over the extent of US surveillance of...

US phone surveillance ‘unacceptable’

UPDATED: A new report that the US' controversial National Security Agency (NSA) monitored 33 million mobile phone conversations in Norway in the space of...

Surveillance both ‘shocking, unknown’

Former Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, seen as a likely target of the US surveillance reported by newspaper Dagbladet on Tuesday, says he wants to...

Philippines aid boosted again

The Norwegian government is proposing yet another aid allocation to the Philippines after its recent, devastating typhoon, asking the parliament to approve an additional...

Breakthrough as budget talks end

Norway's new conservative government won the budget backing it needed on Friday from its two centrist "support parties" in Parliament. After a week of...

Grocery officials huddle to set new prices

Annual price negotiations between grocery stores chains in Norway and food producers and wholesalers were underway this week, and raising more concerns. Dominant NorgesGruppen,...
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