Tag: politics

Government shuns stricter virus rules

Norway's new government still doesn't want to reimpose any invasive measures to crack down on new record Covid-19 infection levels in the country. Prime...

Budget battle ends well for leftist SV

Norway's  Labour-Center government coalition was finally able late Monday to secure a majority in Parliament for next year's state budget. After lengthy negotiations with...

Støre has struggled in efforts to lead

NEWS ANALYSIS: Just six weeks into his role as Norway's prime minister, Jonas Gahr Støre has struggled to lead the country, his government and...

Orphan brought to Norway from Syria

Norway's chapter of Save the Children (Redd Barna) hopes the repatriation last week of an orphan from a refugee camp in Syria to Norway...

President elected amidst more drama

Drama continued to engulf Norway's Parliament (Stortinget) even as its 169 members settled on and elected a new president from the also-troubled Labour Party....

NRK journalists arrested in Qatar

Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt and Norway's embassy in Abu Dhabi took contact with authorities in Qatar after two journalists from Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) were...

‘Look to Norway?’ Not right now…

NEWS ANALYSIS: Many Norwegians are proud of how the legendary US president, Franklin D Roosevelt, once urged Americans to "look to Norway" for inspiration...

New Corona rules ‘not good enough’

Doctors at over-burdened Norwegian hospitals were not pleased when the new government rolled out what it claimed were stricter Corona containment measures on Friday....

Drama at Stortinget ends in resignation

UPDATED: The new and suddenly embattled president of the Norwegian Parliament (Stortinget), Eva Kristin Hansen, had earlier refused to give up her second-most powerful...

Storting’s president under pressure

The new president of the Norwegian Parliament (Stortinget), who ranks second only to the king, suddenly seems to be a bit small. Eva Kristin Hansen...
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