Tag: politics

Lawsuit can halt plans to tear down ‘Y-blokka’

Opponents of plans to tear down a low-rise concrete building in Norway's government complex, which was bombed by a right-wing extremist in 2011, have...

Norway equipped to tackle Corona crisis

The Oslo Stock Exchange (OSE) suffered through another terrible day on Monday, as the price of Norway's biggest export product, oil, also sank to...

State rides to the Corona rescue

The usually quarreling parties in Parliament set aside political differences on Monday and got the government to further sweeten its economic crisis package for...

Two new ministers stride into crisis

NEWS ANALYSIS: Right in the middle of Norway's biggest crisis in years, Prime Minister Erna Solberg also had to formally name two new cabinet...

Labour MP guilty of sexual harassment

Eirik Sivertsen, a Member of Parliament for the Labour Party, has resigned as a party spokesman and won't be running for re-election in 2021,...

Solberg faces new cabinet shake-up

Prime Minister Erna Solberg, already in search of a new fisheries minister, now needs a new education minister as well. In the midst of...

Health minister faced a grilling

The Conservatives' Bent Høie has ranked as Norway's longest-serving health minister, but was told in Parliament Tuesday that public confidence in his efforts to...

Grande hung on as Liberals leader

Trine Skei Grande survived a power struggle that could unseat her as leader of the Liberal Party. A party committee charged with forming a...

Oslo ‘fools … came to their senses’

Chastened Oslo officials have shifted into reverse and will allow an exhibition of vintage American cars in the city's Frogner Park this summer after...

Commission: NAV scandal may widen

A government commission publicly confirmed on Wednesday that state welfare agency NAV did indeed wrongly prosecute many Norwegians who received benefits while abroad. Questions...
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