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 A surge in support on the back of its handling of coronavirus has pushed Norway's ruling Conservative party into the lead for the second month running, depriving the opposition bloc of a majority for the first time in more than a year. https://www.thelocal.no/20200603/norway-government-still-polling-high-on-coronavirus Wed, 03 Jun 2020 11:38:03 +0200 norway-government-still-polling-high-on-coronavirus Trond Giske, the former deputy leader of Norway's opposition Labour party, is reportedly able to return to parliament following an absence after allegations of sexual harassment were made against him. https://www.thelocal.no/20180207/former-labour-deputy-leader-can-return-to-parliament-after-scandal Wed, 07 Feb 2018 15:36:39 +0100 former-labour-deputy-leader-can-return-to-parliament-after-scandal Former Norwegian minister Trond Giske, a deputy leader of the Labour party, announced his resignation on Sunday after accusations that he sexually harassed young women. https://www.thelocal.no/20180108/norway-labour-party-deputy-leader-resigns-amid-sex-claims Mon, 08 Jan 2018 10:24:44 +0100 norway-labour-party-deputy-leader-resigns-amid-sex-claims Norway’s opposition Labour party has suspended deputy leader Trond Giske over accusations of inappropriate conduct. https://www.thelocal.no/20180103/deputy-leader-suspended-as-norway-opposition-crisis-continues Wed, 03 Jan 2018 14:28:11 +0100 deputy-leader-suspended-as-norway-opposition-crisis-continues Labour leader Jonas Gahr Støre says that he is prepared to form a minority government without the support of coalition parties should the post-election political landscape require it. https://www.thelocal.no/20170831/norway-opposition-leader-stre-open-to-minority-government-as-poll-numbers-slip-again Thu, 31 Aug 2017 13:03:45 +0200 norway-opposition-leader-stre-open-to-minority-government-as-poll-numbers-slip-again Carl Bildt, a former Swedish prime minister, says that immigration is not causing as many problems for the country as Norway’s immigration minister Sylvi Listhaug depicts. https://www.thelocal.no/20170830/norway-former-sweden-pm-gives-support-to-cancellation-of-listhaug-meeting Wed, 30 Aug 2017 19:08:10 +0200 norway-former-sweden-pm-gives-support-to-cancellation-of-listhaug-meeting In a televised election debate, opposition leader Jonas Gahr Støre spoke in some of his strongest terms yet over Prime Minister Erna Solberg’s leadership. https://www.thelocal.no/20170830/norway-election-labour-leader-stre-ramps-up-criticism-of-pm-over-nationalists-in-debate Wed, 30 Aug 2017 12:38:32 +0200 norway-election-labour-leader-stre-ramps-up-criticism-of-pm-over-nationalists-in-debate After Norway’s opposition Labour Party saw support slip in recent opinion polls, speculation has gained traction about a formal alliance with the Green Party. https://www.thelocal.no/20170823/labour-green-alliance-mooted-in-norway-after-latest-poll Wed, 23 Aug 2017 19:09:06 +0200 labour-green-alliance-mooted-in-norway-after-latest-poll Labour’s deputy leader has said that the conservative coalition is ‘falling apart’, after Prime Minister Erna Solberg claimed the opposition red-green alliance of parties was in ‘chaos’. https://www.thelocal.no/20170811/norways-pm-opposition-claim-chaos-in-each-others-camps Fri, 11 Aug 2017 12:38:04 +0200 norways-pm-opposition-claim-chaos-in-each-others-camps Norway’s foreign minister Børge Brende says that opposition leader Jonas Gahr Støre has nothing in common with Emmanuel Macron, other than the ability to speak French. https://www.thelocal.no/20170717/norway-opposition-leader-has-nothing-common-with-macron-brende Mon, 17 Jul 2017 08:57:42 +0200 norway-opposition-leader-has-nothing-common-with-macron-brende Jonas Gahr Støre, leader of Norway’s Labour Party, promised at an International Worker’s Day speech in Oslo improvements in labour conditions should his party win September’s election. https://www.thelocal.no/20170501/norwegian-labour-party-leader-promises-big-changes-in-may-1st-speech Mon, 01 May 2017 17:53:37 +0200 norwegian-labour-party-leader-promises-big-changes-in-may-1st-speech Tony Blair’s former spindoctor Alastair Campbell has lavished praise on Norway’s Labour Party head for seeing politics as about "big themes requiring big ideas and big solutions”. It’s just a shame he gets his name wrong, twice! https://www.thelocal.no/20150611/blair-spindoctor-gets-labour-heads-name-wrong Thu, 11 Jun 2015 11:15:43 +0200 blair-spindoctor-gets-labour-heads-name-wrong Norway is likely to join its neighbour Sweden and recognise Palestine as an independent state if the Labour Party wins the next parliamentary elections, the party's leader said at its annual conference. https://www.thelocal.no/20150417/norways-labour-party-to-recognise-palestine Sat, 18 Apr 2015 00:55:02 +0200 norways-labour-party-to-recognise-palestine An MP for Norway’s Labour Party has spoken out about being raped when she was 15 years old, as more and more prominent women join a national twitter campaign to raise awareness of sexual harassment and abuse. https://www.thelocal.no/20150416/mp-speaks-out-about-rape-in-viral-twitter-rape-campaign Fri, 17 Apr 2015 00:47:22 +0200 mp-speaks-out-about-rape-in-viral-twitter-rape-campaign Many workers in Norwegian car washes work in “slave-like” conditions, with illegal activity such as human trafficking and illegal immigration found in 90 percent of establishments, official inspections have shown. https://www.thelocal.no/20141223/slave-like-conditions-revealed-in-car-washes Tue, 23 Dec 2014 16:26:23 +0100 slave-like-conditions-revealed-in-car-washes The Council of Europe announced on Tuesday that it had elected Thorbjørn Jagland to a second five-year term at the head of the pan-European body, which recently played an active role in the Ukraine crisis. https://www.thelocal.no/20140625/norways-jagland-reelected-council-of-europe-head Wed, 25 Jun 2014 10:17:00 +0200 norways-jagland-reelected-council-of-europe-head The new leader of Norway's Labour Party has called for the country to become the world's first zero-emission nation in an unexpectedly radical speech that signalled a sharp change in the party's climate policy. https://www.thelocal.no/20140616/new-labour-leader-calls-for-zero-emission-norway Mon, 16 Jun 2014 13:02:00 +0200 new-labour-leader-calls-for-zero-emission-norway Norway's Labour Party wants to give Thorbjørn Jagland another term as chairman of the committee which awards the Nobel Peace Prize, it announced on Wednesday, as the recriminations over the selection process grow louder. https://www.thelocal.no/20140522/jagland-remains-labours-choice-to-lead-nobel Thu, 22 May 2014 10:49:00 +0200 jagland-remains-labours-choice-to-lead-nobel A councillor from Norway's Labour Party risks being expelled after he argued on Saturday night that gay people who want to get married in church should start their own splinter sect. https://www.thelocal.no/20140422/labour-councillor-faces-sack-over-gay Wed, 23 Apr 2014 01:58:00 +0200 labour-councillor-faces-sack-over-gay Helga Pedersen, the most prominent female candidate to succeed Jens Stoltenberg as Labour leader when he leaves to head Nato on October 1st, has said she is not interested in the position. https://www.thelocal.no/20140331/main-woman-candidate-2 Tue, 01 Apr 2014 01:20:00 +0200 main-woman-candidate-2