Tag: politics
High oil prices won’t boost spending
With a barrel of oil trading back up at around USD 100, largely because of the political unrest in Egypt, Norway is seeing millions...
Country divided over Lofoten drilling
A slight majority of Norwegians support drilling for oil off the coast of Lofoten and Vesterålen in northern Norway, although the majority of those...
Party fined over funding violations
One of the three parties making up Norway's left-center government, the small Center Party, became the first in the country's history to be fined...
Cold War defense included plans to sacrifice Finnmark in the north
The Norwegian government would have been prepared to give up the northern region of Finnmark in the event of an invasion by the Soviet...
Splits form on environmental issues
Competing and conflicting concerns regarding conservation and the need to mitigate climate change look set to widen divisions between organizations and actors within Norway’s...
Undersea cables would ‘inflict pain’
Proposed alternatives to the hotly contested Hardanger Fjord ‘monster mast’ power lines have been described as just as threatening to the area’s ecosystem as...
‘Women bullied in Parliament’
A former, longtime member of the Norwegian Parliament (Stortinget) claims in a new book on his life in politics that new female Members of...
Development minister promises African support
Norway’s government minister for international development, formerly known mostly as foreign aid, has pledged to support Norwegian companies looking to invest in Africa –...
‘Monster mast’ conclusions arrive
UPDATED: Four separate panels of experts delivered their opinions on Tuesday regarding the financial and technical aspects of the now infamous "monster mast" debate,...
‘Jens has gained by being tough’
Norway's Labour Party, which leads the country's coalition government, has gained voter popularity in recent weeks even though some of Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg's...
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