Temperatures had dropped significantly ahead of Minister of Trade and Industry Jan Christian Vestre’s visit to the border town of Kirkenes. As he met with journalists in front of the local ship repair yard, the minister shivered with cold. Vestre has reason to feel the chill. Only few kilometres eastContinue Reading
More than 30,000 western troops will take part in one of Nato’s biggest military exercises since the end of the cold war amid rising tensions in Europe as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. For a month from Thursday, troops from 27 countries including the US, UK, Germany andContinue Reading
Norway’s blustery Fosen peninsula is a long way from anywhere, its mountains sustaining the Indigenous Sami and their reindeer for centuries. These same peaks are vital to the kingdom’s wind energy plans, and native herder Lena Haugen says her people pay the price. Snaking through the snowy terrain are dozens ofContinue Reading
BEIJING — They’re doing it again. Norway, with a population of just 5 million, is executing its quadrennial triumph over the rest of the world. It may not surpass the historic 2018 Pyeongchang Games, when Norway won 39 medals, eight more than its closest competitor, Germany, which has 16 timesContinue Reading
KRIGSFRYKT: Norge og de andre nordiske landene må være forberedt på at ukrainere på flukt kommer hit hvis det blir krig, tror forsker Jakub M. Godzimirski. En eventuell krig kan utløse en stor flyktningkrise i Europa. Landene nærmest vil få flest flyktninger fra Ukraina: Polen, Romania og Slovakia forbereder segContinue Reading
The cable carries data from satellites orbiting the Earth above the North Pole Service to one of the world’s key Arctic underwater cables providing a data lifeline to satellites orbiting the Earth has been disrupted. One of the two cables has been out of service since Friday and Space NorwayContinue Reading
Newly discharged conscripts to hand back items including socks and bras, to be washed and reused Norwegian conscripts are to return their underwear after completing military service for the next recruits, as the army struggles with dwindling supplies due to Covid. Norway, which guards Nato’s northern borders and shares aContinue 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