Tag: politics
Initial release was short-lived
An appeals court in Oslo ruled Monday that Norway's most popular illegal alien, Maria Amelie, must be released from custody but immigration police immediately...
Tax officials crack down on false IDs
Thousands of foreigners working in Norway on a temporary basis are likely to be called in for new identity checks and must obtain a...
Norway’s brand of democracy
COMMENTARY: As two of Norway's political parties consider major personnel changes, the two most striking features of Norway's political system may be that individual...
Party personalities under pressure
The leader of one of Norway's coalition government parties, and the deputy leader of another party in opposition, are both facing uncertainty over their...
Thousands more ‘illegals’ in Norway
As more details emerge about arrested illegal alien Maria Amelie and her pending deportation, thousands more like her are living in Norway in fear...
Crowds protest Amelie’s arrest
Thousands of Norwegians all over the country protested Thursday evening over the arrest of a young woman whose family fled the Caucasus when she...
Award-winning illegal alien arrested
A young woman from the former Soviet Union, whose family sought and failed to win asylum in Norway when she was still a teenager,...
Støre makes the rounds in Mideast
Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre flew right into a hornets' nest of new tensions in the Middle East this week, as he made the...
Officer warns of military breakdown
Years of budget and staff cutbacks have left Norway's military on the verge of an equipment breakdown, warns a retired commander in the Norwegian...
Lawmakers forced to drop China trip
This week's sale of one of Norway's major companies to a state-controlled Chinese conglomerate doesn't mean strained relations between Norway and China are back...
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