https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Norway in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Unfazed by the UK's struggle through its EU departure, Eurosceptics in Norway have seen support rising for further distance to Brussels although the country isn't an EU member. https://www.thelocal.no/20201223/why-a-future-centre-left-government-could-distance-norway-from-the-eu Wed, 23 Dec 2020 15:19:48 +0100 why-a-future-centre-left-government-could-distance-norway-from-the-eu Jan-Ove Fromreide, a candidate for the Centre Party in Askøy in Hordaland, has resigned from the party’s electoral list after it was discovered that he runs an extreme right-wing Facebook page that has praised Anders Breivik. https://www.thelocal.no/20150720/centre-party-candidate-runs-hate-group-facebook-page Mon, 20 Jul 2015 19:24:25 +0200 centre-party-candidate-runs-hate-group-facebook-page Norway's outgoing Labour government has warned the incoming Conservative-led administration against granting a one-off amnesty to the roughly thousand asylum-seeker children who face being sent back to their parents' home countries. https://www.thelocal.no/20130919/labour-warns-on-asylum-child-amnesty Thu, 19 Sep 2013 13:05:00 +0200 labour-warns-on-asylum-child-amnesty Centre Party MP Jenny Klinge has called for Norway to tackle organized crime by reasserting control over its own borders and leaving the Schengen border union. https://www.thelocal.no/20120718/norway-must-close-borders-to-keep-out-crime-klinge Wed, 18 Jul 2012 13:44:00 +0200 norway-must-close-borders-to-keep-out-crime-klinge Despite calls for an end to the practice after the recent death in Oslo of a baby boy, Health Minister Anne Grete Strøm-Erichsen has said male circumcision will not be banned in Norway. https://www.thelocal.no/20120703/minister-says-no-to-circumcision-ban Tue, 03 Jul 2012 15:53:00 +0200 minister-says-no-to-circumcision-ban The Centre Party on Monday morning replaced two of its cabinet members in the governing red-green coalition in a move party leader Liv Signe Navarsete said was aimed at freshening up her team ahead of the 2013 elections. https://www.thelocal.no/20120618/cabinet-shakeup-as-centre-party-swaps-out-ministers Mon, 18 Jun 2012 14:36:00 +0200 cabinet-shakeup-as-centre-party-swaps-out-ministers The practice of ritually circumcising infant boys is outdated, dangerous, and should be banned, according to Centre Party justice policy spokeswoman Jenny Klinge. https://www.thelocal.no/20120613/ban-ritual-circumcision-of-boys-centre-party Wed, 13 Jun 2012 14:30:00 +0200 ban-ritual-circumcision-of-boys-centre-party