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As Norway’s Parliament launches its new session, voters don’t seem to be backing either the country’s Labour Party government or its longtime Conservatives-led opposition. Instead it’s the far right Progress Party that’s dominating the polls, along with two much smaller parties also recently branded as “populists.”…
After a hectic overnight trip to Oslo in an effort to prod US-brokered peace talks with Russia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky received a warm welcome at the Norwegian Parliament on Wednesday. He’s been subjected to a new torrent of criticism and even bullying from the US president, but the message from the…
Tuesday’s sudden peace talks in Oslo may result in more diplomacy and less bullying as efforts continue to end Russia’s war on Ukraine. The US special envoy Steve Witkoff was set to fly back to Oslo on Wednesday after meeting with the Russians in St Petersburg. Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, a career…
UPDATED: Norwegian air space over Oslo and the neighbouring region of Romerike was partially closing on Tuesday, after news broke of a high-level meeting in Norway’s capital aimed at ending Russia’s war on Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was flying in once again, to meet with the leaders of Norway and…
Train service in southern Norway was getting back to normal during the weekend, after locomotive engineers and state train operator Vy agreed on a new labour pact. They’d been ordered into mandatory arbitration on Friday. State mediator Mats Ruland could announce settlement of the nearly month-long strike after talks…
Reaction was swift and furious after a state commission handed over its proposals on Thursday for changes in the ethical framework and management of Norway’s huge sovereign wealth fund, known as the Oil Fund. The commission proposed investing in some companies tied to nuclear weapons, and that led to verbal blasts…
Five Norwegians have been charged in an alleged swindle of NATO that’s been unraveling around Europe this week. Those arrested in Bergen are suspected of over-billing for work done on NATO vessels in Norwegian harbours between 2021 and 2025. The suspects arrested at their homes in the Bergen area on Wednesday were…
Norwegian football players are on a roll. Another of the country’s teams good enough to be playing in the Champions’ League, Bodø/Glimt, beat another top German team, just a day after Stavanger’s Vikings did the same. Football commentators were as happily stunned as fans in the stands, after Bodø/Glimt beat Borussia…