Tag: politics

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...

Norway winds down in Afghanistan

Norwegian military forces are getting ready to pull out of Afghanistan after years of participation in NATO-led operations and several casualties. Norway's role is...

The rich are getting richer, but income still evenly spread

New statistics suggest that the wealthiest Norwegians have secured their spots at the top of the income scale, not least because of bigger stock...

EU faithful face huge uphill battle

Support for the European Union (EU) has never been very high in Norway and those who still want Norway to join are now more...

United opposition demands hospital merger ‘time-out’

The leaders of the four main opposition parties in parliament have called for a "time-out" in the highly painful process of merging Oslo's biggest...

Norway eyes oil era for Greenland

The Arctic nation of Greenland seems on the verge of an industrial revolution that's involving controversial oil exploration and several Norwegian players. At stake...

Oslo goes ahead with Christmas tree gift plans

City officials in Oslo, faced with budget cuts, considered dropping their annual gift of large city Christmas trees to London, Reykjavik and Rotterdam, to...
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