Tag: politics

Jensen: Euro crisis yields opportunity

Students at BI Norwegian Business School in Oslo listened to an unusual lecturer on Tuesday, Progress Party leader and longtime Member of Parliament Siv...

Budget conference tougher than usual

They were all smiles on Sunday, as Norway's 19 government ministers gathered in rural Hadeland, just north of Oslo, for their annual budget conference....

More trouble for big Oslo hospital

Norway's largest hospital, formed through a highly controversial merger of several hospitals in the capital, is now grappling with questionable hiring practices that have...

Kudos for Kristin as SV era ends

Kristin Halvorsen wrapped up a record-long 15 years as leader of Norway's Socialist Left party (Sosialistisk Venstreparti, SV) on Saturday, and received long and...

SV plots course out of crisis

Norway's Socialist Left party (SV) went ahead and elected Audun Lysbakken as its new leader over the weekend, despite a week of crisis that...

Food prices rise as border trade soars

Food prices in Norway rose again from January to February, reported state statistics bureau SSB on Friday. The news comes as legions of Norwegians...

Top bureaucrat also resigns from troubled ministry

Harald Nybøen, who held the top bureaucratic post at Norway's beleaguered government ministry in charge of family and equality issues, has resigned just two...

Conservative MP faces drug charges

A Member of Parliament (MP) for Norway's Conservative Party (Høyre) has been stripped of all his party posts after police found white powder believed...

State auditor confirms violations

Fully 16 of Norway's 19 government ministries have broken the rules for making extra funding allocations, State Auditor General Jørgen Kosmo told Norwegian Broadcasting...

High-tech terror tops threat ranking

Norway's military intelligence unit known as "E-tjenesten" has handed over its latest open evaluation of threats to national and international security, with high-tech terrorism now...
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