Tag: politics

City halts cuts at Munch Museum

Drama and unrest at Oslo's Munch Museum continued on Wednesday after city officials ultimately in charge of Norwegian artist Edvard Munch's legacy halted looming...

Labour unions hail court victory

Norway's Supreme Court had the last word in a long-standing battle between Norwegian shipyard employers and trade unions when it ruled this week that...

Euro crisis hits industry harder

Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg has been issuing more warnings about the ill effects of the European economic crisis on Norwegian industry, and many companies...

Researchers study Utøya survivors

Researchers in Oslo and Bergen are set to study the brains of young survivors of the massacre on the island of Utøya two years...

County roads in worse shape than expected

Complaints have raged for years over the sorry state of Norwegian highways around the country, most of  which are just two lanes and narrow....

‘Pay-back time’ for Myanmar

The president of Myanmar ended his visit to Norway this week after three days of top-level meetings, official lunches and dinners and red-carpet treatment....

State set to allow heroin smoking

Health Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, claiming that the heroin overdose rate in Norway is "shamefully" high, wants to allow addicts to smoke the illegal drug...

City puts damper on Munch’s party

Famed Norwegian artist Edvard Munch may either be spinning in his grave or snorting posthumously at the latest move by the Oslo city officials...

SAS defies bonus ban, under probe

After Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) defied a domestic ban and reinstated its bonus program for business travellers this week, competition authorities opened an immediate investigation and Norway's...

Huge new energy reserves detected

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (Oljedirektoratet, NPD) unveiled new studies of southeastern portions of the Barents Sea and the area around the Arctic island of...
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