Norway will ban the serving of alcohol in bars and restaurants, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre said, as part of new COVID-19 restrictions intended to stem the spread of the Omicron coronavirus variant. There’s “no doubt the new variant changes the rules,” Gahr Støre told a news conference Monday, announcing theContinue Reading
The organization Energi Norge believes that the state should repay a significant part of its profit on the high electricity prices back to consumers. According to the organization, the state is expected to earn around NOK 11 billion more than normal from the extraordinarily high electricity prices this year inContinue Reading
A large and growing proportion of new mortgages are taken out by people who have high total debt in relation to annual income, according to a survey by the Financial Supervisory Authority of Norway (Finanstilsynet). Almost half of the loan volume in this year’s survey was given to borrowers withContinue Reading
“The USA is our most important ally, and the government is concerned with maintaining and further developing the strong security policy ties between our two countries,” Enoksen (SP) said in a statement to NTB. On Monday, November 15, he travels to the United States to meet with US Secretary ofContinue Reading
“During the first year of the pandemic, Sweden was, in fact, a net exporter of the SARS-CoV-2 virus to our Nordic neighbors,” researcher John Petterson at Uppsala University told Uppsala Nya Tidning. The study was conducted by researchers at Uppsala University, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, and the UniversityContinue Reading
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has threatened to expel Finland’s ambassador, along with ambassadors from nine other countries, after they jointly issued a petition demanding the release of a Turkish activist. The ambassadors’ petition called for the immediate release of the Turkish philanthropist and human rights activist Osman Kavala whoContinue Reading
Danish man Espen Andersen Braathen has been charged with the murders of four women and one man killed in the rampage in Kongsberg. A police officer and two others were injured. Five victims of a bow and arrow attack in Norway have been named as authorities in the country announcedContinue Reading
Norway’s new center-left Cabinet has taken office after the incoming prime minister presented a center-left minority government Thursday, a day after a deadly bow-and-arrow attack in a small town. Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere, the leader of Norway’s center-left Labor Party, stood outside the royal palace with his 19-member teamContinue Reading
Norway will start welcoming travelers from other countries without obliging them to follow strict entry rules as it seeks to ease many of the preventive measures imposed to halt the spread of the virus that have been kept in place for 561 days now. The Nordic country’s authorities have introducedContinue Reading
Getting to 90% of fully vaccinated people in Norway is an ambition, not a prerequisite for returning to normal everyday life, Minister of Health Bent Høie (H) stated. The health authorities’ overarching goal is to limit the spread of infection and keep the disease burden low until 90% of theContinue Reading