Tag: politics

State auditor will probe oil ministry

Norway's state auditor general (Riksrevisjonen) has decided to examine how the Oil & Energy Ministry has handled its role as the major owner of...

Norway wins seat on Security Council

A jubilant Prime Minister Erna Solberg and Foreign Minister Ine Eriksen Søreide view Norway's election to the UN Security Council as a sign of...

Majority supports aid to oil industry

A new survey shows that not only a majority of politicians support controversial tax relief and financial aid to Norway's oil and offshore industry....

Calls rise for probe of Equinor losses

Several Members of Parliament, professors and not least editorial writers at Norwegian newspapers are all demanding an external and independent investigation of Norway's state-owned...

Last chapter for iconic ‘book boat’

Politicians in the newly-merged Vestland county in western Norway have decided that a unique floating library known as Epos will never again bring books,...

Support rises for lower voting age

A special commission representing all parties in Parliament is winning support for its proposal to lower Norway's voting age to 16. The commission also...

Confusion clouds refugee ‘solution’

Norway's three government parties claim they've agreed on a plan to evacuate some "young and vulnerable" asylum seekers from squalid refugee camps in Greece,...

‘Thriller’ ushers in biotech reforms

UPDATED: A political "thriller" of historic dimensions led to sweeping reform on Tuesday of Norway's biotechnology law. A majority of all 169 Members of...

Norway caught in squeeze over China

Four years after finally ending a diplomatic freeze with China, Norway has found itself needing to choose sides in new Chinese conflicts, now related...

Progress plagues former partners

Norway's top politicians headed into the long Ascension Day weekend amidst rising political pandemonium in Parliament. It's mostly pegged to the right-wing Progress Party,...
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