Tag: politics

Labour working on Labour Day

Norway's traditional Labour Day celebrations on May 1 were taking on distinctly political overtones this year, as the Labour Party and others on the...

Heads roll as grocery store drama goes on

The bosses for both the Rimi and ICA Supermarked chains have been fired after their local parent ICA Norge was hit with more heavy...

UD takes blame for ‘royal squeeze’

Norway's foreign ministry (Utenriksdepartementet, UD) acknowledges what it calls "legitimate criticism" over the crown couple's visit next week to US defense contractor Lockheed Martin, but...

Royals catch flak over fighter jets

Norway's crown couple was rubbing elbows with fellow royals in Amsterdam this week, at the investiture of the new Dutch king, but next week's...

Majority backs a ban on begging

Six out of 10 Norwegians now want a nationwide ban on begging, according to the results of a new public opinion poll. The poll...

Christian Democrats want to rule

If Norway's Christian Democrats get their prayers answered and win enough votes to jostle for power in a new government coalition this fall, the...

Farmers demand huge pay hike

Norway's powerful farmers' organizations handed over a demand on Friday for nearly NOK 2 billion in increased income this year, mostly in the form...

Higher marks with mom at home

New research indicates that the older children of mothers who opted to stay home with their youngest children, instead of putting them in Norway's subsidized...

More turbulence for local airlines

Norway's airline industry was caught in more turbulence this week as the country's labour organizations intensified their conflict with Ryanair, and the country's own...

Police evict homeless as debate rages

Police evicted more than 100 occupants of an abandoned building in Oslo Thursday morning, many of them Roma and other foreign migrants. The evictions...
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