Tag: politics

Political veteran also turns 50

There's been a boom of big birthdays among Norway's government leaders, most recently Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre's 50th birthday celebrations. On Thursday it...

Powerful friendship spurs debate

As Crown Prince Haakon and Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre kept up their busy schedules in recent days, debate continued over the public emergence...

Oslo delays garbage sorting

Some Oslo residents may secretly be breathing a sigh of relief, after news broke Monday that they won't immediately need to make room under...

Norwegian hits top of French politics

Eva Joly, the au pair from Norway who gained fame as a judge and corruption fighter in France, has recently risen to the highest...

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...
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