Tag: politics

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...

Small party holds big new wildcard

NEWS ANALYSIS: Another small political party has suddenly emerged this week as the joker on the non-socialist side of the government drama heading into...

Pressure grows on ‘au pair’ program

UPDATED: A television documentary on the exploitation that often faces foreigners arriving in Norway on "au pair" contracts was setting off more alarms this...

Oil fund questions oil giant’s ethics

The state-appointed ethics council that oversees investments made by Norway's huge oil-fueled sovereign wealth fund is questioning whether operations by US oil giant ExxonMobil...

Foreign aid ‘buys influence’ in the US

The Norwegian government has been sending large amounts of money earmarked for foreign aid to several US organizations commonly known as "think tanks." Some...

Breivik’s defender back in the news

Geir Lippestad, the Norwegian defense attorney who represented terrorist and mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik last year, has been back in the news over...

Former mayor appeals conviction for sex with a minor

Rune Øygard, the longtime Labour Party politician and former mayor of Vågå, was back in court this week as he attempts to overturn his...
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