Tag: politics

Fish over cheese in Brexit talks

Norway's left-leaning newspaper Dagsavisen has long supported subsidies and tariff protection for farmers in Norway, but now thinks they should let more British cheese...

Equinor cleans up for its new CEO

NEWS ANALYSIS: Troubled state oil and energy company Equinor has resorted to a major clean-up of its finances, operations and even personnel before new...

Norway abolishes ‘county men’

In another attempt to promote gender neutrality, the government is abolishing the longstanding titles of the state's representatives in regions known as fylker, or...

Parliament makes defense demands

UPDATED: Members of the opposition in Parliament have begun presenting their own demands for changes in the government's latest long-term defense plan. Among them:...

Arctic oil losses report withheld

Norway's Oil & Energy Ministry knew as early as 2013, when it was under the political control of former Oil Minister Ola Borten Moe,...

Oslo issues new Corona crackdown

The City of Oslo rolled out a new set of tougher restrictions in the capital on Monday, all aimed at halting a recent rapid...

Opposition grows to anti-Corona efforts

Health Minister Bent Høie joked in Parliament recently about how the government is trying to enforce Norway's Corona virus containment measures. The restrictions are...

Ex-justice minister’s partner faces jail

Prosecutors are asking the Oslo County Court to sentence Laila Anita Bertheussen, live-in partner of former justice minister Tor Mikkel Wara, to two years...

Norway braces for new Corona rules

"I am worried," declared Prime Minister Erna Solberg at yet another government press conference on the Corona crisis Friday afternoon. She warned Norwegians to...

Rural politicians marred fundraiser

Leaders of more than 30 small communities around Norway followed through in sabotaging the country's annual fundraiser last weekend, when they refused to take...
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