Tag: politics

Aid agency gets new director

Norad, the Norwegian agency for administering foreign aid, has a new leader and she's not the traditional social anthropologist. Villa Kulild recently won government...

Stoltenberg fairly ‘alone’ in Cancun

Norway's prime minister, Jens Stoltenberg, is the only government leader from western industrialized countries who has made the latest round of climate talks in...

Defense ministry on the defensive

Labour Party politician Espen Barth Eide has suddenly emerged as a powerful dealmaker in Norway's decision to buy new fighter jets from the US,...

Silence disrupts surveillance probe

A police investigation into controversial surveillance carried out by the US Embassy in Oslo has been stymied by the investigators' inability to question the...

More leaks test Nordic-US relations

A seemingly endless stream of revelations from US documents meant to be kept under wraps continues to stir questions and some bad feelings between...

Stoltenberg’s Twitter jeopardy

Security specialists are criticizing Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg for making himself an easy target for terrorists. Last April Stoltenberg "Twittered" his way through Europe...

US bucks Norway’s views on Svalbard

New research shows that the US, often called Norway's most important ally, won't support Norway's policies for its claims to the Arctic archipelago of...

Støre condemns document leaks

UPDATED: Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre downplayed revelations from leaked US diplomatic documents on Monday, and condemned that they'd been made public by...

Pension fraud suspects face prison

A state prosecutor asked a court in Oslo to jail two retired politicians, one for six months and the other for 60 days, claiming...

Data retention veto may hurt

If Norwegian politicians veto an EU-directive on data retention, the country may find itself out of favor with EU officials in Brussels. Norway's Labour...
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