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Minister vows huge anti-bullying effort

Education Minister Torbjørn Røe Isaksen plans to launch what he calls the biggest anti-bullying campaign in a decade, after yet another child's death has been...

Immigrants face tough new rules

Norway's conservative government coalition moved forward on Tuesday with the introduction of tough new immigration rules, especially aimed at asylum seekers. Sylvi Listhaug, the new...

‘Best country’ ranking draws little attention

It made front-page headlines more than a decade ago when Norway was first ranked as the best country in which to live by the...

Tougher welfare rules put youth to work

Norway's state welfare agency NAV is seeing some positive results from its current process of toughening rules for obtaining benefits. Demands that young welfare recipients...

Unemployed may need to relocate

Norway's state welfare agency NAV is bracing for a rush of applications from laid-off workers filing for unemployment benefits. NAV predicts another 10,000 Norwegians will register...

New NAV boss gets down to work

Sigrun Vågeng started her new job as head of Norway's state welfare agency NAV this week, a post billed as one of the worst and...

‘Rimi-Hagen’ comes out of the closet

Stein Erik "Rimi" Hagen, who made his fortune establishing the Rimi grocery store chain in Norway, has long been one of Norway's wealthiest and...

Municipal reform looms after voting

No matter who wins Monday's mid-term local government elections, state efforts will continue to get more of Norway's 428 municipalities to merge. Government ministers in...

NAV wins some positive feedback

Finally someone has something nice to say about the often-disaparged social welfare agency NAV in Norway. After another recent rash of bad publicity, a...

Minister defends ‘Barnevernet’

The name of the Norwegian state agency charged with ensuring the welfare of children, Barnevernet, has become well-known far beyond Norway's borders, for all the wrong...
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