Tag: politics

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...

New government defies skeptics

NEWS ANALYSIS: The ink had barely dried on the political agreement signed by Norway's non-socialist party leaders Monday night before tongues started wagging that...

Police argue over bearing arms

Norwegian police moved a bit closer to being armed this week, when a new directive requiring weapons to be placed in all police patrol...

Erna and Siv get down to business

Conservative Party leader Erna Solberg and Progress Party leader Siv Jensen will launch negotiations this week to form a government on their own for...

Electric cars now king of the roads

Norway has emerged as a world leader in the introduction of electric vehicles, and Oslo seems to have become the electric car capital of the...

Frigate berthed for its spare parts

One of the Norwegian navy's five new, expensive frigates has been permanently berthed at the Haakonsvern naval base in Bergen where it serves mostly...
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