Norwegian competitiveness is weakened, according to ranking
Norway drops two places and is now at ninth place in a new ranking of the world’s most competitive economies. Norway drops from seventh place…
Norway drops two places and is now at ninth place in a new ranking of the world’s most competitive economies. Norway drops from seventh place…
The Labor Inspection Authority believes that a building firm in Trondheim is behind several offenses. Among other things, employees have received a salary of down…
The Conservative Party, the Progress Party, the Liberal Party, and the Christian Democrats have agreed to allocate an extra one billion, becoming a total of…
Before the IPO in 2012 Facebook wanted the oil fund to be one of the investors. The Oil Fund then refused the offer, but since…
Nav received 5,600 notifications of layoffs and termination of contracts in April. That’s almost twice as many as they received one year ago. Of…
Adjusted for seasonal variations, there were 130 000 unemployed persons in March 2016, which is on a par with December 2015. The Labour Force Survey (LFS)…
One third of all the lorries that crossed the Norwegian border by road were Norwegian-registered in the first quarter of 2016. Norwegian lorries are still…
Norwegians traveling with different airlines on the same trip, may have to pay the passenger fee twice – if the companies do not find a…
SAS has set up a wide range of new departures in winter despite protests against the new passenger tax and worries about a decline in…
DNB admit to having illegally stored emails of former employees, even though the bank is required by the Inspectorate to delete them. DNB apologize and…
Oslo police hope to catch construction site thieves using so-called micro marking technology, on selected construction sites in the capital. As many as 90 percent…
Confidence in the country’s economy and the job market is now at its highest level since April last year, new figures show. The Consumer confidence…
Tine will expand its operations in Ireland and move the production of 10,000 tons of Jarlsberg cheese to the country. On Thursday, the Board of…
In 2015 and so far in 2016 the Directorate of Immigration (UDI) has paid nearly 5 billion kroner to operators of reception centers. The six…
Øystein Olsen was appointed Governor of Norges Bank by the Council of State for a second six-year term on Friday 27 May. “I look forward…
The Government will provide an additional 70 million kroner to the development of climate-friendly ships through a new aid scheme. Through this arrangement, we want…
Defence Minister Ine Eriksen Søreide warns of stricter rules for sales of used military equipment. Defense gets harsh criticism in Parliament for past practices. The…
Oil investments will fall also next year, according to figures from Statistics Norway. The estimate is 14.6 percent lower than for 2016. The total investment…
The Norwegian Research Council has allocated 160 million to the creation of eight new research centers for environmentally friendly energy (FME). A total of 1.3 billion…
At Thursday the price for a barrel of North Sea oil was once more at more than 50 dollars. The price of oil for delivery…