Veddemål

Det er spennende tider i norsk politikk om dagen! Erna Solberg og regjeringen sliter med å forklare hva reservasjonsretten faktisk betyr for norske kvinner, Ola Borten Moe blir ikke innstilt som nestleder i Senterpartiet av partiets valgkomitee og Jens Stoltenberg nevnes som en aktuell kandidat til jobben som ny generalsekretær i Nato. Det betyr at […]

Politikk og ekstremværet

Jens Stoltenberg uttalte på Debatten på NRK torsdag 23. mai at “det ligger utenfor vår kompetanse å hindre flom”. Det er en uholdbar ansvarsfraskrivelse. 7. mai i år la regjeringen fram stortingsmeldingen ”Klimatilpasning i Norge”. Den pekte blant annet på at nedbøren i Norge har økt med 20 prosent de siste hundre årene, noe som […]

Partilederdebatt under dag 3, Arendalsuka

Dag 3 under Arendalsuka ble nok den mest hektiske, så langt. Torsdagen stod frem med flere spennende debatter, deriblant EU debatt mellom Europabevegelsens leder Paal Frisvold og Nei til EU-leder Heming Olaussen. Fra mitt ståsted en meget spennende debatt med mange gode poenger. Som denne sanne europeer som jeg er mener jeg at Frisvold i […]

A new Norwegian government

Today Jens Stoltenberg presented his new administration, his second administration, 10 women and 10 men. I mostly curios on two, Trond Giske becomes Minister of Trade and Industry and Kristin Halvorsen will be the Minister of Education and Research. They have a lot of challenges ahead, especially in those two areas and it will be […]

Challanges ahead

Norway’s red-green government did win the elections on Monday, winning 86 seats to the oppositions 83 seats. Venstre fell out of the parliament and KrF, together with Senterpartiet stayed somewhere around the six present of votes. The results indicated Norway would continue to buck a trend that has seen center-right blocs take power in its […]

The discussion is heating up

It has been a busy couple of weeks, back at work, writing a lot about the digital possibilities out there, commented a lot in VG about the politicians use of social media, been in a discussion on TV2Nyhetskanalen together with @jilltxt and @SVHeikki on the same matter – and trying to follow the discussions in […]

The Norwegian government and Aker

Yet again, the Red/Green coaliation shows all the signs of making political harakiri, this time the Aker-case. The oppsition have happy days, poundering the message that the Government shouldn’t be involved in business, the way we do here in Norway, which means highly imvolvmeny from the state in different areas, especially related towards oil/energy and […]

The Norwegian Fortune-Teller

It’s amazing, one of the more profiled representatives in the Norwegian congress, Ms Saera Kahn, has decided to resign because of the calling to some fortune tellers, to a cost of approx. 40 000 NOK the last quarter. Since she is representing Arbeiderpartiet and the Government – and since they are doing a lot of […]

Shame on Jens Stoltenberg, Arbeiderpartiet and Senterpartiet!

Faced with record numbers of refugees seeking asylum in Norway, the government on Wednesday announced moves to make it harder for them to stay in the country. Running away from it’s responsibilities in this very delicate and emotional matter I really don’t know how this Government will face it’s voters. I’m very curious to see […]