Tag: politics

High-speed trains ‘may be profitable’

Pressure is growing in favour of building new high-speed train lines around Norway, and a long-awaited report released Wednesday didn't put the brakes on...

Royal representation in Davos

Norway will be royally represented, both literally and figuratively, at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland that started this week and lasts...

Butter said to be back ‘soon’

It's taken Norway's dairy cooperative Tine (pronounced "Tee-nah") longer than expected to produce enough butter to satisfy retail demand, but Tine officials claim it...

Støre involved in child welfare case

Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre has taken the unusual move of involving himself in a child welfare case involving a family from India, after...

Broke immigrants told to go home

Labour Minister Hanne Bjurstrøm had a message over the weekend for hopeful immigrants from southern Europe who've been arriving in Norway in search of...

New immigration rules may be eased

Justice Ministry officials are promising to at least "adjust" tough new immigration rules that have made it increasingly difficult for foreign spouses of Norwegian...

Labour soars in latest poll

Another public opinion poll has shown Norway's Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiet, Ap) jumping way beyond its biggest rival at present, the Conservative Party (Høyre), and...

Farmers’ lobby loses members

One of Norway's most traditionally powerful lobbying organizations, the farmers' group Norges Bondelag, has reported a decline in membership for the first time in...

Little political support for forced municipal mergers

In the midst of all the publicity around the recent annual conference of employers' organization NHO, the powerful business lobbying group's main message almost...

Sverdrup’s name ‘taken in vain’

Johan Sverdrup, often viewed as the "father" of Norway's parliamentary system and even its democracy, has now had an oil field named for him,...
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