Tag: politics

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...

Storberget quits, ministers shuffled

After six years as one of Norway's longest-serving justice ministers ever, Knut Storberget called it quits on Friday. He's endured an autumn of what...

New highway project takes a toll

A long-awaited expansion of the E6 highway opened this week north of Oslo's main airport at Gardermoen, but the road improvement comes at a...

‘Should see what we can do better’

Opposition parties in Parliament had expected a humble admission from Justice Minister Knut Storberget that mistakes were made during the response to the terror...

Top lawyer to join Nobel Committee

Norway's Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiet) is partially following its own advice to revamp the membership of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, by naming Berit Reiss-Andersen to one...
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