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New drinks debate bubbles up
Farmers' attempts to sell their locally produced alcoholic beverages on site have set off another drinks debate in Norway, and threaten to divide one...
Progress Party’s lack of progress
NEWS COMMENTARY: Norway's most conservative party, the Progress Party (Fremskrittspartiet, Frp), must be feeling a need for attention. One of its top leaders has...
Conservatives now largest in the land
Erna Solberg's Conservative Party (Høyre) is now Norway's largest political party, according to a new public opinion poll. The Norwegian Labour Party's decline in popularity...
Minister offers new compromise
An underground, instead of undersea, cable may wind up as the compromise solution to a heated political conflict over how to run power lines...
New anger rises over Hardanger
Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg was back on the defensive Monday morning, after Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) reported that his government may not set up an...
More power line battles loom
Overhead power lines dot the landscape all over Norway, but now local officials may step up demands for underground or underwater cables instead, after...
Government re-evaluates alternatives to disputed Hardanger power lines
Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg met opponents of overhead power lines in Hardanger face-to-face in his office on Tuesday, and later said his government would...
Coalition leaders not smiling now
They all seemed a lot happier at the beginning of the summer, but with their government coalition under constant criticism, tensions keep rising among...
Conflicts of interest foil day care debate
A debate over day care centers has broken out in Norway but it's been overshadowed by an even louder debate over related conflicts of...
More static over power line plans
Norway's long-dominant Labour Party has not been having a good summer. After being trounced in public opinion polls, it's now being assailed by both...
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