Tag: politics

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...

Ministers’ quarrels upset the boss

Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg is not pleased that ministers in the left-center government coalition he leads have been openly quarreling during the past week....

Minister Moe takes Sp to the right

NEWS ANALYSIS: Oil & Energy Minister Ola Borten Moe has been stirring up controversy and quarrels in the government for the past few weeks,...

Hospital error ‘unacceptable’

Opposition politicians are once again hammering the left-center government's health care policies, after hearing the story about a hospital in Oslo that forgot to...

School elections cheer Labour Party

Never before has the Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiet, Ap) done so well in the school elections held as a test of young Norwegians' choices before...
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