Tag: politics

Norwegian Navy embarrassed again

As if a frigate collision, its scrapping and other fleet problems weren't enough: Now one of the Norwegian Navy's newest, biggest, most expensive but also...

Norway bids ‘adieu’ to ‘au pair’ system

New Labour Minister Hadia Tajik is keen to scrap the country's long-criticized "au pair" system, on the grounds it exploits young people from abroad...

Norway braced for battle in Glasgow

NEWS ANALYSIS: Norway's new Labour prime minister headed for the 26th UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow that opened on Monday, armed with more...

Troms and Finnmark allowed to divorce

Norway's new Labour-Center government is already reversing lots of the centralization and consolidation that the former Conservative government championed to improve economies of scale....

New minister faces shootings, tragedy

Emilie Enger Mehl has had to hit the ground running in her new job as Norway's justice minister in charge of both police and...

Electricity bills likely to keep rising

Last year's historically low electricity bills in Norway are now estimated to rise by as much as NOK 10,000 (USD 1,200) this year. Politicians...

New fighter jets costing even more

Norway's long-debated new F35 fighter jets from the US are setting off another cost bomb for the new Norwegian government. The latest numbers from...

Local politician cleared of corruption charges

A court covering a wide area northeast of Oslo acquitted the former mayor of Nittedal,  Hilde Thorkildsen of the Labour Party, and a local...

MUNCH opens after a long, bumpy ride

NEWS ANALYSIS: Thousands of Norwegians including royalty and top politicians were gathering in Oslo Friday night for the official opening of their new monument...

Politicians promise electricity bill relief

Both the new Norwegian government and the opposition in Parliament claim they're ready to help reduce suddenly sky-high electricity bills. As snow started falling...
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