Tag: politics

Reaction rolls in to platform priorities

Critics were quick to blast the political priorities set by Norway's incoming Conservatives-led government coalition Monday night. While new government leaders Erna Solberg and...

‘Historic’ coalition presents platform

Erna Solberg of the Conservatives and Siv Jensen of the Progress Party finally started rolling out their new government platform on Monday evening, promising...

Norway ponders UN request to help destroy Syria’s chemical weapons

Both outgoing and incoming government officials in Norway are evaluating a request by the US and Russia, via the UN, to help with the...

Norway’s VAT among world’s highest

The Scandinavian countries, including Norway, charge among the highest value-added taxes in the world, topped only by Hungary, according to fresh figures from the...

Bells ring over boxing ban repeal

An intention by Norway's new Conservatives-led government to end a ban on professional boxing in Norway is drawing both cheers and protests. In one...

New president for Parliament

Olemic Thommessen, a veteran politician for the Conservatives, had been widely tipped to be Norway's new minister for cultural affairs in the new Conservative-led...

Women tops in smoking-related deaths

New research shows that more than 30 percent of all deaths among middle-aged women in Norway can be blamed on smoking. The research, recently...

More whales killed in this year’s hunt

After several years of decline in Norway's annual whale hunting season, the leader of whalers in northern Norway reports an increase of 125 of...

Minister posts now up for grabs

Government talks got underway this week at an historic hotel outside Oslo, with the Conservative and Progress parties trying to reconcile their differences on...

Former Nobel leader dies

Ole Danbolt Mjøs, a former chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee that chooses the winners of the Nobel Peace Prize, died earlier this week...
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