Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre issued an appeal to the country after presenting his new minority Labour government on Tuesday, the first in 25 years made up of just one party. It only represents 26.3 percent of voters... Stoltenberg to the rescue, as Norway’s new finance minister NEWS ...

Jan 15, 2025 · NEWS ANALYSIS: From its strategic Arctic areas in the far north, to its border to Russia in northeastern Finnmark and vast offshore territory in the west and south: Norway is battening down the hatches. New defense and preparedness plans “will affect every one of us,” declared Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre while rolling out the […]

Feb 4, 2025 · Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre issued an appeal to the country after presenting his new minority Labour government on Tuesday, the first in 25 years made up of just one party. It only represents 26.3 percent of voters in the last national election, but Støre is keen to show that it can rule responsibly. […]

Jan 31, 2024 · Northern- and Southern Norway were cut off from each other Wednesday evening, after yet another extreme storm slammed into the central portions of the country. The E6 highway that runs from the border to Sweden in the south to the border to Russia in the far north was closed over the mountains of Saltfjellet in […]

Jan 22, 2025 · The collapse of Norway's Labour-Center government coalition last week has already sparked a new battle over energy supplies to the country's lucrative but climate unfriendly gas processing plant on the Arctic island of Melkøya.

Dec 26, 2024 · UPDATED: Three passengers on board a bus bound for Lofoten in Northern Norway were killed and 11 sent to hospital after the bus ran off the E10 highway in stormy weather on Thursday. Several of the nearly 60 passengers on the bus were visitors from China, Singapore, India, Malysia, the Netherlands and France. That made […]

Feb 12, 2024 · Norway’s national security- and intelligence agencies released their evaluations of threats against Norway on Monday, and they’re the highest and most serious in decades. China and Norway’s neighbouring Russia still pose the biggest threats, they claim, while the threat of terrorist attacks is “moderate.” The evaluations come from Norway’s foreign- and military intelligence agency ...

Feb 3, 2025 · Little came out of another meeting last week between business and labour leaders, who are still at odds over whether Norway’s generous sick pay benefits should be reduced. The country’s largest trade union federation LO won’t budge nor will employers’ organization NHO, and another meeting with Norway’s labour minister didn’t help. NHO has been criticized […]

Nov 12, 2024 · As Norway’s struggling left-center government braces for a new conservative Trump presidency in the US, it also faces a new reality at home. A majority of young Norwegian men are voting for conservative parties, too, also in areas of the country where Labour and other left-leaning parties have dominated for decades. A new public opinion […]

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