Tag: politics

Future uncertain for popular ‘Flytoget,’ the Airport Express Train

UPDATED: Norway's first high-speed train line has been running to and from the country's gateway airport, Oslo Gardermoen, since it opened in 1998. Now...

Questions swirl over pipeline sabotage

International news reports that a mysterious yacht sailing from Rostock may be behind the suspected sabotage of Russian pipelines in the Baltic last fall...

Støre and his party now in ‘deep crisis’

NEWS ANALYSIS: Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre walked into the proverbial lion's den on Thursday, when he addressed the Sami Parliament in Karasjok just...

Harassment and death threats have followed wind power protests

The president of the Sami Parliament, other top politicians and many of those demonstrating last week against wind turbines on Sami land in Norway...

Wind turbines’ future still up in the air

Sami and environmental activists ended their blockades of several Norwegian government ministries on Friday, after securing official promises that huge turbines generating wind power...

Støre won’t rule out wind turbines on Svalbard

Demonstrations in Oslo over wind power turbines in Trøndelag haven't prevented Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre from considering more such turbines on Norway's Arctic...

From arrests to apology: Government ‘sorry’ it violated Sami human rights

It took a week of protest demonstrations in Oslo, but Sami reindeer herders in central Norway finally received a long-overdue apology from the Norwegian...

Public roars over ‘health care crisis’

Lots of unhappy Norwegians have been yelling at their government this winter. Several nurses even went so far as to organize a public uproar...

Police crack down on turbine protest

UPDATED: Activists promoting both Sami and environmental interests occupied Norway's Oil & Energy Ministry through the weekend, and then blocked all its entrances on...

Parliament raised the Ukrainian flag

It's not often that another country's flag is flown outside the Norwegian Parliament, but officials deemed it appropriate on Friday in another show of...
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