Tag: politics

Cancer treatment criticized

Norwegian cancer patients must often wait much too long for treatment to begin, according to a new report, and even state health authorities have...

Historic ‘no’ to an EU directive

Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre had an unpleasant task on Monday, telling EU officials in Brussels that Norway wouldn't be going along with...

Hospitals face huge cuts

Oslo's university hospitals have been ordered to cut NOK 500 million in costs, to meet their budgets, but top hospital administrator Siri Hatlen thinks...

Duck mum moves in with Jens

Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg routinely invites visiting VIPs to his home in downtown Oslo. One recent visitor has made bigger headlines than most,...

Bondevik loses peace center base

Former Norwegian Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik has to move his fledgling Oslo Center for Peace and Human Rights out of its fashionable headquarters,...

Smooth sailing for Norway and Russia

Relations seem better than ever between Norway and Russia, following a few recent conflicts over salmon imports, human rights, business trouble for Telenor and...

Sky-high home prices spark concern

Norway's residential real estate market has never been hotter, report brokers and bankers, and concerns are rising that it may boil over and go...

Fiesty farmers protest subsidy deal

One Norwegian farmer set fire to his tractor this week. Others drove their tractors and livestock trucks slowly on major highways to create traffic...

Stoltenberg floated as a new IMF boss

Norway's popular prime minister, Jens Stoltenberg, is being mentioned among various candidates to take over as head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), after...

Norway re-thinks Burma policies

Norway has started talking with some new leaders in Burma, but state secretary Espen Barth Eide insists the Norwegian government won't let itself be...
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