Tag: politics

‘Love us or hate us for the right reasons’

NEWS ANALYSIS: After being provocative and in opposition for 40 years, Norway's Progress Party (Fremskrittspartiet, Frp) is suddenly worried about its image both at...

All smiles after their first session

All four leaders of the non-socialist parties trying to form a new government in Norway emerged from their first round of preliminary talks on...

Winning leaders tackle the issues

HERE'S WHAT'S UP FOR NEGOTIATION: The leaders of the four non-socialist Norwegian parties that collectively won last week's parliamentary election were sitting down to...

Probe launched into ballot ‘scandal’

The state government ministry in charge of Norway's municipalities will investigate why hundreds of ballots from communities in the counties of Finnmark in the...

Election coverage sets off alarms

NEWS ANALYSIS: Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide of the Labour Party is almost as worried as the rival Progress Party over the angles, often...

State needs more asylum centers

A resurgence of asylum seekers arriving in Norway this year has created a need for as many as 40 new asylum centers around the...

Winning parties plot path forward

Leaders of Norway's four non-socialist parties that collectively won Monday's parliamentary election were spending most of this week huddling with their own party faithful...

Stoltenberg still has ‘a lot to give’

Jens Stoltenberg, whose Labour Party emerged from Monday's parliamentary election as Norway's biggest party but lost government power, will still function as Norway's prime minister...

Voter turnout defied the skeptics

Fully 77.7 percent of all eligible voters in Norway took part in Monday's parliamentary election that's sweeping a new Conservative-led government coalition into office....

Dairy coop needs to cut costs

Tine, the state-sanctioned conglomerate that controls the dairy market in Norway, announced plans to cut costs by as much as NOK 750 million by...
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