Tag: politics

Pressured premier issues an apology

Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg formally apologized Tuesday on the floor of the Norwegian Parliament (Stortinget) for Norway's lack of preparedness when a home-grown terrorist...

Guest workers pay off in Norway

The Norwegian state profits from guest workers who pay considerably more in taxes than what they claim in benefits, according to recent research by state...

Majority backs court, not government

Eighty percent of Norwegians questioned support the jail term handed down to confessed terrorist Anders Behring Breivik last week, and a solid majority also...

Latest oil find boosts stocks

Norwegian oil company Det norske oljeselskap was among those seeing even more investor interest on Monday, after state oil company Statoil confirmed the discovery...

Terror aftermath forces Stoltenberg to drop huge oil exhibition

Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg was supposed to be the keynote speaker at the opening of the huge oil industry exhibition Offshore Northern Seas (ONS)...

Import restrictions eased to spread butter

The Norwegian market needs as many as 1,500 more tons of butter than what's available from Norwegian producers, so the state is lowering the...

Labour parties, to fend off crisis

NEWS ANALYSIS: Some commentators claim that Norway's Labour Party is in its worst crisis since World War II, but party leaders put on broad...

Ministry tunes out Flagstad prize

Organizers of an annual festival in honor of Norway's pioneering opera singer Kirsten Flagstad wanted to draw extra attention to it by awarding a...

Police chief quits, ‘lacked support’

State Police Director Øystein Mæland has become the first casualty of this week's scathingly critical report on how Norwegian police failed to efficiently respond...

Sami Parliament hit by rotting wood

There's something rotten in the Sami Parliament building (Sametinget) and it's threatening the very existence of the architectural landmark in Northern Norway that was constructed...
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