Tag: politics

Tears of anger in Parliament

Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg's call for more love and solidarity after last summer's terrorist attacks seemed all but forgotten on Wednesday, when a top...

Troms energy firm in more trouble

Troms Kraft, the largest energy company in Northern Norway, has reported accounting irregularities at its Swedish subsidiary, Kraft & Kultur, that suggest revenue has...

New Progress Party sex scandal emerges

Norway's most conservative political party, the Progress Party, was fending off another sex scandal within its ranks this week, the third this year involving...

Norway tops in cancer survival

After months of crisis headlines about Norwegian hospitals comes some good news: Norwegian cancer patients have among the highest survival rates in the world....

Statoil in huge gas field deals

Norwegian oil company Statoil announced Monday that it was selling off five North Sea gas fields and greatly reducing its takes in three more,...

‘Ambitious goals’ for Northern Areas

The so-called Nordområdene (Northern Areas) have long been at the top of Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre's agenda. On Friday, he and three fellow...

SV urged to pull out of government

A rising chorus of veterans in the Socialist Left party (SV) is calling for its withdrawal from Norway's left-center government coalition. They believe SV...

Screams erupt over museum fiasco

The City of Oslo's failure to agree on a location for construction of a new Munch Museum has set off screams of protest and...

Jensen ‘sad’ over Nobel conflict

It seems there's never a dull moment in the Progress Party (Fremskrittspartiet, Frp), with conflict often breaking out within its own ranks. Tensions reached...

Nobel rejection infuriates Hagen

Former Progress Party boss Carl I Hagen is furious with his party colleagues over their rejection of his candidacy for a coveted spot on...
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