Tag: refugees

Immigration tests the welfare state

Norway has not succeeded in ushering refugees and many other immigrants into the workforce, notes the leader of a commission that's been studying the...

Former ministers ‘shocked’ by Trump

Three former Norwegian foreign ministers, including one who also served as Norway's ambassador to the US, are urging the government to directly and more strongly...

Calls rise to help US-banned refugees

As outrage piles up over the US Trump Administration's sudden ban on asylum seekers and citizens of seven mostly Muslim countries, some Norwegians want to offer alternative...

Norway slams US’ refugee, travel ban

The Norwegian government, which often has called the US its "most important ally," was as upset as many others around the world this weekend after new US...

Christian Democrats help rein in UDI

Norway's Christian Democrats party has gone along with forming a majority in Parliament that will stop state immigration agency UDI from revoking citizenship granted to immigrants...

Alarms ring over rejected refugees

UPDATED: Never before has so much concern been expressed over the fate of mostly teenage boys who have fled Afghanistan, made their way to...

Soldiers of Odin loses leaders

Just two weeks after taking over as the new leader of the quasi-vigilante group Soldiers of Odin, Jan Tellef Aanonsen says he has quit...

Another fire hits an asylum center

Firefighters in Rjukan, Telemark County, battled thrugh the night to extinguish another fire at an asylum center. There were no deaths or injuries, but...

Prime minister lauded for promoting ‘new word of the year’

Prime Minister Erna Solberg ended up getting credit for introducing and using what Norwegian language experts chose as the "the new word of the year"...

Skepticism grows over immigration

A new survey carried out by state statistics bureau SSB (Statistics Norway) shows that a third of all Norwegians now think it should become even...
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