Ottar Jakobsen

A large majority in Oslo City Council will decide on Wednesday to reduce the city’s fifteen boroughs to eight. Six of the eight “new”…

Norway’s Prime Minister, Jonas Gahr Støre, has been in Brussels trying to persuade the European Commission to abandon its ban on oil and gas…

When I hear newspaper journalists hailing AI and AI tools as the future of journalism itself, I become deeply sceptical and disheartened. Instinctively, I…

Iceland, the little brother in the west with 402,000 inhabitants, is considering resuming negotiations on EU membership. This could breathe new life into Norway’s…

Former Norsk Industri leader Stein Lier-Hansen received five years in prison for gross corruption and economic disloyalty. Norwegian tabloid VG and its bar journalist…

The Labour Party has taken too much political battering recently to dare embark on any new EU battle. But the issue does not disappear.…

Most people are incapable of assessing their own economic situation, concludes Statistics Norway (SSB) in its report “Outlook for the Norwegian Economy”. This government-commissioned…

Raymond Johansen, the former Mayor of Oslo, has become Secretary General of Norwegian People’s Aid and has promptly thrown himself into what is described…

Everyone who matters in the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (UD) and its powerful shadow circles, including our entire bloated aid apparatus, is now…

Just months ago, during the election campaign, the opposition parties Høyre, Venstre, and MDG stayed silent on the EU question – but now they’re…