Tag: politics

Center Party leader hangs on

The leader of Norway's embattled Center Party, which now commands less than 5 percent of the vote but nonetheless enjoys government power, refused to...

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...

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