There will not be any strikes from hotel staff in Norway, after an agreement was reached on Sunday to increase salaries and improve conditions for employees in hotels, restaurants and catering.
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson and EU chief Ursula von der Leyen have agreed to carry on post-Brexit trade talks after a call between leaders on Sunday.
Just days after US President Donald Trump called for further isolation of Iran, a Norwegian solar company signed a deal Tuesday to invest 2.5 billion euros in the country over the next five years.
Norway and China announced on Monday the resumption of diplomatic relations, six years after Beijing froze ties with Oslo over the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to a Chinese dissident.
Britain wanted to create a formal task force to work with Norway on a post-Brexit free trade agreement, but the Norwegian rejected the overture according to a new report.
Norway said on Thursday its trade surplus shrank by two-thirds in August on a yearly basis, hammered by a combination of higher imports and declining exports of natural gas, marking one of its worst results since 1999.
Norway has confirmed that it will contribute €400m a year to boost social and economic equality in Europe in exchange for improved access for Norwegian exports in EU markets, especially fish and seafood.
The opposition parties Høyre and Fremskrittspartiet (FRP) want Norway to start free-trade talks with the US, to get ahead of the EU. The statement was dubbed ignorant and premature by the trade minister.
Norwegian Trade and Enterprise Minister Trond Giske is set to bar entry to the ministry for his entire staff of 200 employees, but his intent is educational as he sends them off on one-day field trips into the Norwegian business wilds.
The town of Kirkenes in northernmost Norway used to be further away from Asia than virtually any other
European port, but it suddenly seems a lot closer due to the global warming.
Eager to save money, Norwegian shoppers are streaming over the border in record numbers to avoid hefty domestic prices by instead stocking up on groceries in Sweden, new figures show.
Norway's June trade surplus jumped 15.1 percent year-on-year, to 29.5 billion kroner ($4.82 billion), despite a fall in oil exports, the national statistics agency said on Monday.
Norway's postal service, Posten, was ordered on Wednesday to pay a fine of €11.112 million (83.87 million kroner, $14.54 million) after the EFTA court found it had abused its dominant market position.
Norwegians spent 11.5 billion Norwegian kroner ($2 billion) during one-day shopping trips to Sweden last year, meaning almost 6 percent of Norway's consumer food and beverage trade has migrated to Sweden.
Norway’s butter crisis has prompted severe criticism of the country's dairy system, as consumers grapple with shortages that an Oslo management school dean has likened to conditions in the Soviet Union.
In a finding that will come as no surprise to anybody who has ever visited or lived in Oslo, the Norwegian capital has emerged as the most expensive shopping city in the world.
The Norwegian word for ‘butter’ has lately become the most searched for term on a popular buy-and-sell website, as an acute shortage of the desirable dairy product threatens to give Christmas a bad taste.
