Tag: politics

Hospital conflict level rises

An ongoing conflict over the massive reorganization of Oslo's largest hospitals has intensified, after the employee representatives of several organizations for health care workers...

Norway supports Palestinian state

Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre confirmed over the weekend that Norway will support the Palestinians' request for full membership in the United Nations and...

Still unclear who’ll rule in Oslo

Fabian Stang of the Conservative Party will retain his job as mayor of Oslo, but politicians in Norway's capital are still negotiating which parties...

Progress Party vows comeback

Disappointed members of Norway's most conservative political party, the Progress Party, retreated into meetings on Tuesday to hash out just what went wrong in...

Conservatives won most major cities

Oslo is far from the only city in Norway facing conservative leadership over the next four years. While Oslo Mayor Fabian Stang hung on...

Høyre wins big, at Frp’s expense

Norway's Conservative Party (Høyre) scored the biggest overall gain of any of Norway's parties in the local elections that wrapped up on Monday, while...

Halvorsen resigns as SV’s leader

Election Night took a dramatic turn on Monday when veteran Norwegian politician Kristin Halvorsen announced she'd be resigning as leader of the Socialist Left...

Turnout brisk when voting began

Signs pointed the way to polling places (valglokaler) on Sunday afternoon in several cities and towns that offered a jump-start on Election Day in...

Hagen drops mayoral race

Carl I Hagen, the veteran politician and former head of the conservative Progress Party, says he's giving up the campaign for mayor of Oslo...

Central bank tackles strong currency

Signals from Norway's central bank boss Øystein Olsen that the bank may even cut interest rates rather than raise them have boosted hopes for...
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